First-principles study of the pressure and crystal-structure dependences of the superconducting transition temperature in compressed sulfur hydrides

Abstract

We calculate superconducting transition temperatures ($T_{\mathrm{c}}$) in sulfur hydrides H${}_2$S and H${}_3$S from first principles using the density functional theory for superconductors. At pressures of $\lesssim$150 GPa, the high values of $T_{\mathrm{c}}$ ($\gtrsim$130 K) observed in the recent experiment [A. P. Drozdov, M. I. Eremets, and I. A. Troyan, arXiv:1412.0460] are accurately reproduced by assuming that H${}_2$S decomposes into $R3m$-H${}_3$S and S. For the higher pressures, the calculated $T_{\mathrm{c}}$s for $Im3m$-H${}_3$S are systematically higher than those for $R3m$-H${}_3$S and the experimentally observed maximum value (190 K), which suggests the possibility of another higher-$T_{\mathrm{c}}$ phase. We also quantify the isotope effect from first principles and demonstrate that the isotope effect coefficient can be larger than the conventional value (0.5) when multiple structural phases energetically compete.

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