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20182023
most citedSearch for ambient superconductivity in the Lu-N-H system

76 citations · 287 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 38 cited

Full-bandwidth anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory and its application to superhydrides

Roman Lucrezi, Pedro P. Ferreira, Samad Hajinazar +4

Migdal-Eliashberg theory is one of the state-of-the-art methods for describing conventional superconductors from first principles. However, widely used implementations assume a con…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 34 cited

Temperature and quantum anharmonic lattice effects on stability and superconductivity in lutetium trihydride

Roman Lucrezi, Pedro P. Ferreira, Markus Aichhorn +1

In this work, we resolve conflicting experimental and theoretical findings related to the dynamical stability and superconducting properties of -LuH, which was…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 76 cited

Search for ambient superconductivity in the Lu-N-H system

Pedro P. Ferreira, Lewis J. Conway, Alessio Cucciari +7

Motivated by the recent report of room-temperature superconductivity at near-ambient pressure in N-doped lutetium hydride by Dasenbrock et al. [Nature 615, 244 (2023)], we performe…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 13 cited

Superconductivity in Te-deficient ZrTe

L. E. Correa, P. P. Ferreira, L. R. de Faria +6

We present structural, electrical, and thermoelectric potential measurements on high-quality single crystals of ZrTe grown from isothermal chemical vapor transport. These m…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 6 cited

Nodeless time-reversal symmetry breaking in the centrosymmetric superconductor ScCoSi probed by muon-spin spectroscopy

A. Bhattacharyya, M. R. Lees, K. Panda +9

We investigate the superconducting properties of ScCoSi using low-temperature resistivity, magnetization, heat capacity, and muon-spin rotation and relaxation ($…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Synergism between B and Nb improves fire resistance in microalloyed steels

Pedro P. Ferreira, Felipe M. Carvalho, Edwan A. Ariza-Echeverri +7

The development of new fire-resistant steels represents a challenge in materials science and engineering of utmost importance. Alloying elements such as Nb and Mo are generally use…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 9 cited

Possible multiband superconductivity in the quaternary carbide YRe2SiC

Leandro R. de Faria, Pedro P. Ferreira, Lucas E. Correa +3

We report for the first time the occurrence of superconductivity in the quaternary silicide carbide YRe2SiC with Tc = 5.9 K. The emergence of superconductivity was confirmed by mea…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 10 cited

Electron-phonon superconductivity in C-doped topological nodal-line semimetal ZrPt: A muon spin rotation and relaxation (SR) study

A Bhattacharyya, P P Ferreira, K Panda +6

In the present work we demonstrate that C-doped ZrPt is an electron-phonon superconductor (with critical temperature T = 3.7\,K) with a nonsymmorphic topol…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 16 cited

Evidence for multiband superconductivity and charge density waves in Ni-doped ZrTe

Lucas E. Correa, Pedro P. Ferreira, Leandro R. de Faria +6

We carried out a comprehensive study of the electronic, magnetic, and thermodynamic properties of Ni-doped ZrTe. High quality NiZrTe single crystals show a po…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 49 cited

Strain-engineering the topological type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe

Pedro P. Ferreira, Antonio L. R. Manesco, Thiago T. Dorini +4

In the present work, we investigated the electronic and elastic properties in equilibrium and under strain of the type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe using density functional theory (…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 4 cited

T2 phase site occupancies in the Cr--Si--B system: a combined synchroton-XRD/first-principles study

Thiago T. Dorini, Bruno X. de Freitas, Pedro P. Ferreira +6

Boron and Silicon site occupancies of the T2 phase in the Cr-Si-B system were investigated experimentally and by first-principles electronic-structure calculations within the scope…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 13 cited

Two-band superconductivity with unconventional pairing symmetry in HfVGa

A. Bhattacharyya, P. P. Ferreira, F. B. Santos +6

In this letter, we have examined the superconducting ground state of the HfVGa compound using resistivity, magnetization, zero-field (ZF) and transverse-field (TF) muon-spi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 9 cited

Elastic anisotropy and thermal properties of extended linear chain compounds MVGa (M = Sc, Zr, Hf) from ab-initio calculations

P. P. Ferreira, T. T. Dorini, F. B. Santos +2

MVGa (M = Sc, Zr, Hf) compounds belong to an emerging class of materials showing a unique combination of unusual superconducting behavior with extended linear chains in the…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 10 cited

Insights on unconventional superconductivity in HfVGa and ScVGa from first principles electronic structure calculations

P. P. Ferreira, F. B. Santos, A. J. S. Machado +2

The HfVGa compound was recently reported to exhibit unusual bulk superconducting properties, with the possibility of multiband behavior. To gain insight into its properties…