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Title: Hydrogen sulfide at high pressure: Change in stoichiometry

Abstract

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) was studied by x-ray synchrotron diffraction and Raman spectroscopy up to 150 GPa at 180–295 K and by quantum-mechanical variable-composition evolutionary simulations. The experiments show that H2S becomes unstable with respect to formation of compounds with different structure and composition, including Cccm and a body-centered cubic like (R3m or Im – 3m) H3S, the latter one predicted previously to show a record-high superconducting transition temperature, a Tc of 203 K. Furthermore, these experiments provide experimental ground for understanding of this record-high Tc. The experimental results are supported by theoretical structure searches that suggest the stability of H3S, H4S3, H5S8, H3S5, and HS2 compounds that have not been reported previously at elevated pressures.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8]
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui (China); Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
  2. Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Argonne, IL (United States); V. S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk (Russia)
  3. Moscow Inst. of Physics and Technology (Russia); All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics, Moscow (Russia)
  4. Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Argonne, IL (United States); South China Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou (China); Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai (China)
  5. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui (China); Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Argonne, IL (United States); Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai (China)
  6. Moscow Inst. of Physics and Technology (Russia); All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics, Moscow (Russia); Skolkovo Inst. of Science and Technology, Moscow (Russia); State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY (United States); Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., Xi'an (China)
  7. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  8. Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation; ARO; NSFC
OSTI Identifier:
1253790
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1252349
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; AC02-98CH10086; EAR-1114313; B08040; DMR-1231586; W31P4Q1210008; W31P4Q1310005; 14.B25.31.0032; W911NF-13-1-0231; EAR-152064; 1531583; 21473211; FG02-94ER14466
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
ENGLISH
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; composition; phase diagrams; pressure effects; superconducting gap; high-temperature superconductors; superconductors; Raman spectroscopy; X-ray scattering; condensed matter & materials physics

Citation Formats

Goncharov, Alexander F., Lobanov, Sergey S., Kruglov, Ivan, Zhao, Xiao-Miao, Chen, Xiao-Jia, Oganov, Artem R., Konôpková, Zuzana, and Prakapenka, Vitali B. Hydrogen sulfide at high pressure: Change in stoichiometry. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174105.
Goncharov, Alexander F., Lobanov, Sergey S., Kruglov, Ivan, Zhao, Xiao-Miao, Chen, Xiao-Jia, Oganov, Artem R., Konôpková, Zuzana, & Prakapenka, Vitali B. Hydrogen sulfide at high pressure: Change in stoichiometry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174105
Goncharov, Alexander F., Lobanov, Sergey S., Kruglov, Ivan, Zhao, Xiao-Miao, Chen, Xiao-Jia, Oganov, Artem R., Konôpková, Zuzana, and Prakapenka, Vitali B. Tue . "Hydrogen sulfide at high pressure: Change in stoichiometry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174105. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1253790.
@article{osti_1253790,
title = {Hydrogen sulfide at high pressure: Change in stoichiometry},
author = {Goncharov, Alexander F. and Lobanov, Sergey S. and Kruglov, Ivan and Zhao, Xiao-Miao and Chen, Xiao-Jia and Oganov, Artem R. and Konôpková, Zuzana and Prakapenka, Vitali B.},
abstractNote = {Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) was studied by x-ray synchrotron diffraction and Raman spectroscopy up to 150 GPa at 180–295 K and by quantum-mechanical variable-composition evolutionary simulations. The experiments show that H2S becomes unstable with respect to formation of compounds with different structure and composition, including Cccm and a body-centered cubic like (R3m or Im – 3m) H3S, the latter one predicted previously to show a record-high superconducting transition temperature, a Tc of 203 K. Furthermore, these experiments provide experimental ground for understanding of this record-high Tc. The experimental results are supported by theoretical structure searches that suggest the stability of H3S, H4S3, H5S8, H3S5, and HS2 compounds that have not been reported previously at elevated pressures.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevB.93.174105},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 17,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue May 10 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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