The 2021 room-temperature superconductivity roadmap

B Lilia, R Hennig, P Hirschfeld, G Profeta… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Designing materials with advanced functionalities is the main focus of contemporary solid-
state physics and chemistry. Research efforts worldwide are funneled into a few high-end …

Structure prediction drives materials discovery

AR Oganov, CJ Pickard, Q Zhu, RJ Needs - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Progress in the discovery of new materials has been accelerated by the development of
reliable quantum-mechanical approaches to crystal structure prediction. The properties of a …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride

E Snider, N Dasenbrock-Gammon, R McBride… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
One of the long-standing challenges in experimental physics is the observation of room-
temperature superconductivity 1, 2. Recently, high-temperature conventional …

[HTML][HTML] Synchrotron-based infrared microspectroscopy under high pressure: An introduction

L Kong, G Liu - Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Synchrotron sources with high photon flux, small source size, and broad energy range have
revolutionized ultrafine characterization of condensed matter. With the addition of the …

[HTML][HTML] A perspective on conventional high-temperature superconductors at high pressure: Methods and materials

JA Flores-Livas, L Boeri, A Sanna, G Profeta, R Arita… - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Two hydrogen-rich materials, H 3 S and LaH 10, synthesized at megabar pressures, have
revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics providing the first glimpse to the …

Route to a superconducting phase above room temperature in electron-doped hydride compounds under high pressure

Y Sun, J Lv, Y Xie, H Liu, Y Ma - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The recent theory-orientated discovery of record high-temperature superconductivity (T c∼
250 K) in sodalitelike clathrate LaH 10 is an important advance toward room-temperature …

Hydrogen clathrate structures in rare earth hydrides at high pressures: possible route to room-temperature superconductivity

F Peng, Y Sun, CJ Pickard, RJ Needs, Q Wu, Y Ma - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-held dream and an area of intensive
research. Recent experimental findings of superconductivity at 200 K in highly compressed …

Potential high-Tc superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure

H Liu, II Naumov, R Hoffmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A systematic structure search in the La–H and Y–H systems under pressure reveals some
hydrogen-rich structures with intriguing electronic properties. For example, LaH10 is found …

Chemistry under high pressure

M Miao, Y Sun, E Zurek, H Lin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Thanks to the development of experimental high-pressure techniques and methods for
crystal-structure prediction based on quantum mechanics, in the past decade, numerous …

The stochastic self-consistent harmonic approximation: calculating vibrational properties of materials with full quantum and anharmonic effects

L Monacelli, R Bianco, M Cherubini… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The efficient and accurate calculation of how ionic quantum and thermal fluctuations impact
the free energy of a crystal, its atomic structure, and phonon spectrum is one of the main …