Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 068201(2021)

Pressure-induced hydride superconductors above 200 K

Xiaohua Zhang1,2, Yaping Zhao1, Fei Li1, and Guochun Yang1,2、a)
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology and Key Laboratory for Microstructural Material Physics of Hebei Province, School of Science, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China
  • 2Centre for Advanced Optoelectronic Functional Materials Research and Key Laboratory for UV Light-Emitting Materials and Technology of Ministry of Education, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
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    (a) Crystal structure of Im-3m H3S.44 (b) Band structure of Im-3m H3S.64 (c) Main pocket of the Fermi surface of H3S.64 (d) Phonon dispersion curves and Eliashberg spectral function.44 (e) and (f) Integrated XRD patterns obtained by subtraction of the background for sulfur hydride and sulfur deuteride, respectively.66 (g) Pressure dependence of TC of sulfur hydride (black points) and sulfur deuteride (red points).66 (h) DOS and λ vs substitution concentration.67 (i) Linear relationship between λ and DOS.67 (j) TC of H3S0.925P0.075 (red solid line) and H3S0.9P0.1 (black dashed line) vs pressure.67 (k) DOS of H3S at 220 GPa (black), H3S0.960C0.040 at 220 GPa (solid red), and H3S0.960C0.040 at 240 GPa (dashed red), with their Fermi energies set to be zero.43 (l) TC (shaded) vs pressure at x = 0.040.43 (m) Temperature-dependent electrical resistance of the C–S–H system at high pressure.22 (a) and (d) Reprinted with permission from Duan et al., Sci. Rep. 4, 6968 (2014). Copyright 2014 Nature Publishing Group. (b) and (c) Reprinted with permission from Bernstein et al., Phys. Rev. B 91, 060511 (2015). Copyright 2015 American Physical Society. (e)–(g) Reprinted with permission from Einaga et al., Nat. Phys. 12, 835 (2016). Copyright 2016 Nature Publishing Group. (h)–(j) Reprinted with permission from Ge et al., Phys. Rev. B 93, 224513 (2016). Copyright 2016 American Physical Society. (k) and (l) Reprinted with permission from Ge et al., Mater. Today Phys. 15, 100330 (2020). Copyright 2020 Elsevier. (m) Reprinted with permission from Snider et al., Nature 586, 373 (2020). Copyright 2020 Nature Publishing Group.
    (a) Structure of LaH10.65 (b) Total charge density ρtot of LaH10.65 (c) Partial DOS of LaH10.65 (d) Band structure of LaH10.65 (e) Observed superconductivity in LaH10.47 (f) Summary of experimental and theoretical TC values in LaH10.62 (g) Structure of YH9.50 (h) Phonon spectra and Eliashberg spectral function for YH9.46 (i) Temperature-dependent electrical resistance of yttrium superhydride at high pressures.50 (a)–(d) Reprinted with permission from Liu et al., Phys. Rev. B 99, 140501 (2019). Copyright 2019 American Physical Society. (e) Reprinted with permission from Drozdov et al., Nature 569, 528 (2019). Copyright 2019 Nature Publishing Group. (f) Reprinted with permission from Errea et al., Nature 578, 66 (2020). Copyright 2020 Nature Publishing Group. (g) and (i) Reprinted with permission from Snider et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117003 (2021). Copyright 2021 American Physical Society. (h) Reprinted with permission from Peng et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 107001 (2017). Copyright 2017 American Physical Society.
    (a) Structure of CaH6.75 (b) Phonon dispersion relation and Eliashberg spectral function.75 (c) Synchrotron XRD pattern of superconducting calcium hydrides.74 (d) Superconducting measurements in the calcium hydride CaHx.74 (e) XRD patterns and Le Bail refinements of Im-3m YH6 and I4/mmm YH4.91 (f) Temperature dependence of electrical resistance in YH6 and YD6.91 (g) Structure of Li2MgH16.21 (h) Phonon dispersion relations, projected phonon densities of states (PHDOS), and Eliashberg spectral function.21 (i) Structure of AcH10.94 (j) Structure of AcH16.94 (k) TC(P) functions.94 (a) and (b) Reprinted with permission from Wang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 109, 6463 (2012). Copyright 2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (c) and (d) Reprinted with permission from Ma et al., arXiv:2103.16282v2 (2021). (e) and (f) Reprinted with permission from Troyan et al., Adv. Mater. 33, 2006832 (2021). Copyright (2021) Wiley-VCH. (g) and (h) Reprinted with permission from Sun et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097001 (2019). Copyright (2019) American Physical Society. (i)–(k) Reprinted with permission from Semenok et al., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 9, 1920 (2018). Copyright (2018) American Chemical Society.
    (a) Cmca structure of molecular hydrogen at 300 GPa.95 (b) Structure of SrH10.95 (c) δTC/δα2F(ω) (red solid curve) and α2F(ω) (green dashed curve) as functions of frequency ω for SrH10 at 300 GPa.95 (d) Structure of HfH10 and electron localization function on the (001) plane.96 (e) Projected electronic DOS of HfH10 and ZrH10 and total electronic DOS of H3S, LaH10, HfH10, and ZrH10.96 (f) Superconducting parameters for YH10, LaH10, HfH10, and ZrH10.96 (a)–(c) Reprinted with permission from Tanaka et al., Phys. Rev. B 96, 100502 (2017). Copyright 2017 American Physical Society. (d)–(f) Reprinted with permission from Xie et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217001 (2020). Copyright (2020) American Physical Society.
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    Category: High Pressure Physics and Materials Science

    Received: Jul. 31, 2021

    Accepted: Sep. 15, 2021

    Published Online: Dec. 7, 2021

    The Author Email: Yang Guochun (yanggc468@nenu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1063/5.0065287

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