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Signs of Possible High-Temperature Superconductivity in Graphite Intercalated with Lithium-Based Alloys
Vadim Ksenofontov, Vasily S. Minkov, Alexander P. Drozdov +2
We report experimental results indicating possible high-temperature superconductivity in graphite intercalation compounds synthesized with lithium-based alloys. Temperature-depende…
Long-Term Stability of Superconducting Metal Superhydrides
Vasily S. Minkov, Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov, Panpan Kong +11
Zhou et al., in their recent publication (Nat. Commun. 16, 1135, 2025), reported the synthesis of lanthanum superhydride, LaHx (x = 10.2-11.1), by laser heating LaH3 with NH3BH3 at…
Metallization of hydrogen
M. I. Eremets, P. P. Kong, A. P. Drozdov
In previous work,1 we showed that hydrogen metallizes in phase III at temperatures below ~200 K and at pressures near ~350 GPa. Here, we perform a detailed study of electrical cond…
Superconductivity up to 243 K in yttrium hydrides under high pressure
P. P. Kong, V. S. Minkov, M. A. Kuzovnikov +9
The discovery of high-temperature conventional superconductivity in H3S with a critical temperature of Tc=203 K was followed by the recent record of Tc ~250 K in the face-centered…
Superconducting Phase-Diagram of H3S under High Magnetic Fields
Shirin Mozaffari, Dan Sun, Vasily S. Minkov +7
We report the temperature dependence of the upper critical fields of the high temperature superconductor HS under applied pressures of 155 and 160 GPa through th…
Superconductivity at 250 K in lanthanum hydride under high pressures
A. P. Drozdov, P. P. Kong, V. S. Minkov +11
The discovery of superconductivity at 203 K in H3S brought attention back to conventional superconductors whose properties can be described by the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) a…
Superconductivity at 215 K in lanthanum hydride at high pressures
A. P. Drozdov, V. S. Minkov, S. P. Besedin +4
We synthesized lanthanum hydride (LaHx) by laser heating of lanthanum in hydrogen atmosphere at pressure P = 170 GPa. The sample shows a superconducting step at 209 K and 170 GPa a…
Semimetallic molecular hydrogen at pressure above 350 GPa
M. I. Eremets, A. P. Drozdov, P. P. Kong +1
According to the theoretical predictions, insulating molecular hydrogen dissociates and transforms to an atomic metal at pressures P~370-500 GPa. In another scenario, the metalliza…
Elemental Phosphorus: structural and superconducting phase diagram under pressure
José A. Flores-Livas, Antonio Sanna, Alexander P. Drozdov +4
Pressure-induced superconductivity and structural phase transitions in phosphorous (P) are studied by resistivity measurements under pressures up to 170 GPa and fully c…
Comments on the claimed observation of the Wigner-Huntington Transition to Metallic Hydrogen
M. I. Eremets, A. P. Drozdov
In their recent work Dias and Silvera (Science 2017) claim to have observed the Wigner-Huntington transition of hydrogen to a metallic state (MH) at a pressure of 495 GPa at low te…
Low temperature phase diagram of hydrogen at pressures up to 380 GPa. A possible metallic phase at 360 GPa and 200 K
M. I. Eremets, I. A. Troyan, A. P. Drozdov
Two new phases of hydrogen have been discovered at room temperature in Ref.1: phase IV above 220 GPa and phase V above ~270 GPa. In the present work we have found a new phase VI at…
Crystal Structure of 200 K-Superconducting Phase of Sulfur Hydride System
Mari Einaga, Masafumi Sakata, Takahiro Ishikawa +6
This article reports the experimentally clarified crystal structure of a recently discovered sulfur hydride in high temperature superconducting phase which has the highest critical…
Superconductivity above 100 K in PH3 at high pressures
A. P. Drozdov, M. I. Eremets, I. A. Troyan
Following the recent discovery of very high temperature conventional superconductivity in sulfur hydride (critical temperature Tc of 203 K, Ref1) we searched for superconductivity…
Conventional superconductivity at 203 K at high pressures
A. P. Drozdov, M. I. Eremets, I. A. Troyan +2
A superconductor is a material that can conduct electricity with no resistance below its critical temperature (Tc). The highest Tc that has been achieved in cuprates1 is 133 K at a…
Conventional superconductivity at 190 K at high pressures
A. P. Drozdov, M. I. Eremets, I. A. Troyan
The highest critical temperature of superconductivity Tc has been achieved in cuprates: 133 K at ambient pressure and 164 K at high pressures. As the nature of superconductivity in…