Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory
Abstract
Recent reports of the superconductivity in hydrides of two different families (covalent lattice, as in SH3 and clathrate-type H-cages containing La and Y atoms, as in LaH10 and YH6) have revealed new families of high-Tc materials with Tc’s near room temperature values. These findings confirm earlier expectations that hydrides may have very high Tc’s due to the fact that light H atoms have very high vibrational frequencies, leading to high Tc values within the conventional Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer phonon mechanism of superconductivity. However, as is pointed out by Ashcroft, it is important to have the metallic hydrogen “alloyed” with the elements added to it. This concept of a metallic alloy containing a high concentration of metal-like hydrogen atoms has been instrumental in finding new high-Tc superhydrides. These new superhydride “room-temperature” superconductors are stabilized only at very high pressures above 100 GPa, making the experimental search for their superconducting properties very difficult. We will review the current experimental and theoretical results for LaH10-x and YH6-x superhydrides.
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai (China); Carnegie Inst. of Science, Washington, DC (United States). Geophysical Lab.
- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai (China)
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Center for Advanced Radiation Sources
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation). Federal Scientific Research Center Crystallography and Photonics
- Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation). Federal Scientific Research Center Crystallography and Photonics, and Inst. for Nuclear Research
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- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); State Council of the People’s Republic of China; Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation; Russian Science Foundation
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1608047
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1604112
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-94ER14466; EAR-1634415; AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Matter and Radiation at Extremes
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2468-2047
- Publisher:
- China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)/AIP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Struzhkin, Viktor, Li, Bing, Ji, Cheng, Chen, Xiao-Jia, Prakapenka, Vitali, Greenberg, Eran, Troyan, Ivan, Gavriliuk, Alexander, and Mao, Ho-kwang. Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5128736.
Struzhkin, Viktor, Li, Bing, Ji, Cheng, Chen, Xiao-Jia, Prakapenka, Vitali, Greenberg, Eran, Troyan, Ivan, Gavriliuk, Alexander, & Mao, Ho-kwang. Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5128736
Struzhkin, Viktor, Li, Bing, Ji, Cheng, Chen, Xiao-Jia, Prakapenka, Vitali, Greenberg, Eran, Troyan, Ivan, Gavriliuk, Alexander, and Mao, Ho-kwang. Wed .
"Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5128736. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1608047.
@article{osti_1608047,
title = {Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory},
author = {Struzhkin, Viktor and Li, Bing and Ji, Cheng and Chen, Xiao-Jia and Prakapenka, Vitali and Greenberg, Eran and Troyan, Ivan and Gavriliuk, Alexander and Mao, Ho-kwang},
abstractNote = {Recent reports of the superconductivity in hydrides of two different families (covalent lattice, as in SH3 and clathrate-type H-cages containing La and Y atoms, as in LaH10 and YH6) have revealed new families of high-Tc materials with Tc’s near room temperature values. These findings confirm earlier expectations that hydrides may have very high Tc’s due to the fact that light H atoms have very high vibrational frequencies, leading to high Tc values within the conventional Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer phonon mechanism of superconductivity. However, as is pointed out by Ashcroft, it is important to have the metallic hydrogen “alloyed” with the elements added to it. This concept of a metallic alloy containing a high concentration of metal-like hydrogen atoms has been instrumental in finding new high-Tc superhydrides. These new superhydride “room-temperature” superconductors are stabilized only at very high pressures above 100 GPa, making the experimental search for their superconducting properties very difficult. We will review the current experimental and theoretical results for LaH10-x and YH6-x superhydrides.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5128736},
journal = {Matter and Radiation at Extremes},
number = 2,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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