Possible Mechanism for Superconductivity in Sulfur - Common Theme for Unconventional Superconductors?

Eric Lewin Altschuler, Martin Lades

Sulfur has recently been found to be a superconductor at high pressure. At ~93 GPa Tc is 10.1 K, and the sulfur is in a base-centered orthorhombic (b.c.o) structure. At ~160 GPa Tc…