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20202026
most citedFeasible route to high-temperature ambient-pressure hydride superconductivity

149 citations · 344 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2026

High-pressure stabilization of Mg2IrH7: Structural proximity to high-Tc superconductivity

Shubham Sinha, Wencheng Lu, Mads F. Hansen +14

MgIrH is a metastable complex metal hydride with a predicted superconducting transition temperature as high as 170 K at ambient pressure. Following the synthesis of isomorp…

cond-mat.supr-con2024★ 2 cited

Synthesis of MgIrH: A potential pathway to high- hydride superconductivity at ambient pressure

Mads F. Hansen, Lewis J. Conway, Kapildeb Dolui +7

Following long-standing predictions associated with hydrogen, high-temperature superconductivity has recently been observed in several hydride-based materials. Nevertheless, these…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 149 cited

Feasible route to high-temperature ambient-pressure hydride superconductivity

Kapildeb Dolui, Lewis J. Conway, Christoph Heil +3

A key challenge in materials discovery is to find high-temperature superconductors. Hydrogen and hydride materials have long been considered promising materials displaying conventi…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 15 cited

On the dynamical stability of copper-doped lead apatite

Sun-Woo Kim, Kang Wang, Siyu Chen +5

The recent claim of room temperature superconductivity in a copper-doped lead apatite compound, called LK-99, has sparked remarkable interest and controversy. Subsequent experiment…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Ultra-fast yttrium hydride chemistry at high pressures via non-equilibrium states induced by x-ray free electron laser

Emily Siska, G. Alexander Smith, Sergio Villa-Cortes +24

Controlling the formation and stoichiometric content of desired phases of materials has become a central interest for the study of a variety of fields, notably high temperature sup…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 43 cited

Developments and Further Applications of Ephemeral Data Derived Potentials

Pascal T. Salzbrenner, Se Hun Joo, Lewis J. Conway +5

Machine-learned interatomic potentials are fast becoming an indispensable tool in computational materials science. One approach is the ephemeral data-derived potential (EDDP), whic…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 22 cited

Microscopic theory of colour in lutetium hydride

Sun-Woo Kim, Lewis J. Conway, Chris J. Pickard +2

Nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride has recently been proposed as a near-ambient-conditions superconductor. Interestingly, the sample transforms from blue to pink to red as a function…

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-con2023★ 25 cited

Thermodynamically stable room-temperature superconductors in Li-Na hydrides under high pressures

Decheng An, Defang Duan, Zihan Zhang +3

Room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-standing goal for scientific progress and human development. Thermodynamic stability is a prerequisite for material synthesis and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 11 cited

Excitonic Insulator to Superconductor Phase Transition in Ultra-Compressed Helium

Cong Liu, Ion Errea, Chris Pickard +8

Helium, the second most abundant element in the universe, exhibits an extremely large electronic band gap of about eV at low pressures ( GPa). While the metallization…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

On stable H-C-N-O compounds at high pressure

Lewis J. Conway, Chris J. Pickard, Andreas Hermann

The make-up of the outer planets, and many of their moons, are dominated by matter from the H-C-N-O chemical space, commonly assumed to originate from mixtures of hydrogen and the…