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most citedThe metallization and superconductivity of dense hydrogen sulfide

756 citations · 4.1k across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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36 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2023

Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Topological Heterostructure (PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)6

Cuiying Pei, Peng Zhu, Bingtan Li +16

Recently, the natural heterostructure of (PbSe)5(Bi2Se3)6 has been theoretically predicted and experimentally confirmed as a topological insulator. In this work, we induce supercon…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Pressured-induced superconductivity extending across the topological phase transition in thallium-based topological materials TlBi(S1-xSex)2

Cuiying Pei, Peihao Huang, Peng Zhu +15

The coexistence of superconductivity and topology holds the potential to realize exotic quantum states of matter. Here we report that superconductivity induced by high pressure in…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 14 cited

Novel Valence Transition in Elemental Metal Europium around 80 GPa

Bijuan Chen, Mingfeng Tian, Jurong Zhang +20

Valence transition could induce structural, insulator-metal, nonmagnetic-magnetic and superconducting transitions in rare-earth metals and compounds, while the underlying physics r…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 130 cited

Efficient route to achieve superconductivity improvement via substitutional La-Ce alloy superhydride at high pressure

Jingkai Bi, Yuki Nakamoto, Katsuya Shimizu +4

The discovery of clathrate superhydrides has approached the long-standing dream of room-temperature superconductivity and thus inspired their prosperous research under high pressur…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Experimental phase transition mapping for hydrogen above 300 K up to 300 GPa

Chang-Sheng Zha, Hanyu Liu, Zhongwu Wang +1

A vast amount of Raman spectroscopic data, obtained using diamond anvil cell technique under in situ high pressure-temperature conditions, has been used for mapping the phase trans…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 33 cited

Design and Synthesis of Clathrate LaB8 with Superconductivity

Liang Ma, Xin Yang, Guangtao Liu +6

Boron-based clathrate materials, typically with three-dimensional networks of B atoms, have tunable properties through substitution of guest atoms, but the tuning of B cages themse…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 140 cited

A Symmetry-orientated Divide-and-Conquer Method for Crystal Structure Prediction

Xuecheng Shao, Jian Lv, Peng Liu +5

Crystal structure prediction has been a subject of topical interest, but remains a substantial challenge, especially for complex structures as it deals with the global minimization…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 51 cited

En route to high Tc superconductivity via Rb substitution of guest metal atoms in SrB3C3 clathrate

Peiyu Zhang, Xue Li, Xin Yang +3

Recently, a host/guest clathrate SrB3C3 with sp3-bonded boron-carbon framework was synthesized at around 50 GPa. On the basis of electron count, the structure is understood as gues…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 21 cited

Superconductivity of Light-Elements Doped HS

Hongyi Guan, Ying Sun, Hanyu Liu

Pressurized hydrogen-rich compounds, which could be viewed as precompressed metallic hydrogen, exhibit high superconductivity, thereby providing a viable route toward the discovery…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 156 cited

Prediction of high-Tc superconductivity in ternary lanthanum borohydrides

Xiaowei Liang, Aitor Bergara, Xudong Wei +7

The study of superconductivity in compressed hydrides is of great interest due to measurements of high critical temperatures (Tc) in the vicinity of room temperature, beginning wit…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 223 cited

Towards high-throughput superconductor discovery via machine learning

Stephen R. Xie, Y. Quan, Ajinkya Hire +5

Even though superconductivity has been studied intensively for more than a century, the vast majority of superconductivity research today is carried out in nearly the same manner a…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 12 cited

High-Tc superconductivity in clathrate calcium hydride CaH6

Liang Ma, Kui Wang, Yu Xie +9

Recent discovery of superconductive rare earth/actinide superhydrides has ushered in a new era of superconductivity research at high pressures. This distinct type of clathrate meta…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 4 cited

Pressure-induced Superconductivity in dual-topological semimetal Pt2HgSe3

Cuiying Pei, Suhua Jin, Peihao Huang +10

Recently monolayer jacutingaite (Pt2HgSe3), a naturally occurring exfoliable mineral, discovered in Brazil in 2008, has been theoretically predicted as a candidate quantum spin Hal…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 3 cited

Experimental Syntheses of Sodalite-like Clathrate EuH and EuH at Extreme Pressures

Liang Ma, Guangtao Liu, Yingying Wang +5

The recent discovery of a class of sodalite-like clathrate superhydrides (e.g., YH6, YH9, ThH9, ThH10, and LaH10) at extreme pressures, which exhibit commonly a high-temperature su…

physics.comp-ph2019

Metallic liquid H3O in a thin-shell zone inside Uranus and Neptune

Peihao Huang, Hanyu Liu, Jian Lv +5

The Solar System harbors deep unresolved mysteries despite centuries-long study. A highly intriguing case concerns anomalous non-dipolar and non-axisymmetric magnetic fields of Ura…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 14 cited

Road to Room-Temperature Superconductivity: Tc above 260 K in Lanthanum Superhydride under Pressure

Russell J. Hemley, Muhtar Ahart, Hanyu Liu +1

The use of high pressure to realize superconductivity in the vicinity of room temperature has a long history, much of it focused on achieving this in hydrogen rich materials. This…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 31 cited

Crystal Structures and Properties of Iron Hydrides at High Pressure

Niloofar Zarifi, Tiange Bi, Hanyu Liu +1

Evolutionary algorithms and the particle swarm optimization method have been used to predict stable and metastable high hydrides of iron between 150-300 GPa that have not been disc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 4 cited

Superconductivity in SrB3C3 clathrate

Li Zhu, Hanyu Liu, Maddury Somayazulu +12

We predict superconductivity for the carbon-boron clathrate SrB3C3 at 27-43 K for Coulomb pseudopotential (mu*) values between 0.17 and 0.10 using first-principles calculations wit…

physics.chem-ph2017★ 60 cited

Synthesis of Xenon and Iron/Nickel intermetallic compounds at Earth's core thermodynamic conditions

Elissaios Stavrou, Yansun Yao, Alexander F. Goncharov +5

Although Xe is known to form stable compounds with strong electronegative elements, evidence on the formation of stable compounds with electropositive elements, such as Fe and Ni,…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 336 cited

Quantum Hydrogen-Bond Symmetrization and High-Temperature Superconductivity in Hydrogen Sulfide

Ion Errea, Matteo Calandra, Chris J. Pickard +7

Hydrogen compounds are peculiar as the quantum nature of the proton can crucially affect their structural and physical properties. A remarkable example are the high-pressure phases…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 145 cited

Dissociation products and structures of solid H2S at strong compression

Yinwei Li, Lin Wang, Hanyu Liu +11

Hydrogen sulfides have recently received a great deal of interest due to the record high superconducting temperatures of up to 203 K observed on strong compression of dihydrogen su…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 171 cited

High-energy-density and superhard nitrogen-rich B-N compounds

Yinwei Li, Jian Hao, Hanyu Liu +2

The pressure-induced transformation of diatomic nitrogen into non-molecular polymeric phases may produce potentially useful high-energy-density materials. We combine first-principl…

cond-mat.supr-con2015★ 170 cited

Tellurium Hydrides at High Pressures: High-temperature Superconductors

Xin Zhong, Hui Wang, Jurong Zhang +6

Observation of high-temperature superconductivity in sulfur hydrides at megabar pressures has generated an irresistible wave on searching for new superconductors in other compresse…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 57 cited

NH: A Novel Polymeric Hydronitrogen as a High Energy Density Material

Ketao Yin, Yanchao Wang, Hanyu Liu +2

The polymeric phase of nitrogen connected by the lower (than three) order N-N bonds has been long sought after for the potential application as high energy density materials. Here…