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Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Volume. 9, Issue 3, 037401(2024)

Unveiling a novel metal-to-metal transition in LuH2: Critically challenging superconductivity claims in lutetium hydrides

Dong Wang1... Ningning Wang2, Caoshun Zhang1, Chunsheng Xia1, Weicheng Guo1, Xia Yin1, Kejun Bu1, Takeshi Nakagawa1, Jianbo Zhang1, Federico Gorelli1, Philip Dalladay-Simpson1, Thomas Meier1, Xujie Lü1, Liling Sun1,2, Jinguang Cheng2, Qiaoshi Zeng1, Yang Ding1,a), and Ho-kwang Mao13 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Center for High-Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing 100094, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3Shanghai Key Laboratory of Material Frontiers Research in Extreme Environments (MFree), Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences (SHARPS), Shanghai 201203, China
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    Dong Wang, Ningning Wang, Caoshun Zhang, Chunsheng Xia, Weicheng Guo, Xia Yin, Kejun Bu, Takeshi Nakagawa, Jianbo Zhang, Federico Gorelli, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Thomas Meier, Xujie Lü, Liling Sun, Jinguang Cheng, Qiaoshi Zeng, Yang Ding, Ho-kwang Mao. Unveiling a novel metal-to-metal transition in LuH2: Critically challenging superconductivity claims in lutetium hydrides[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(3): 037401

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    Received: Oct. 24, 2023

    Accepted: Jan. 29, 2024

    Published Online: Jul. 2, 2024

    The Author Email: Ding Yang (yang.ding@hpstar.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1063/5.0183701

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