Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2020, 5 (2): 028201, Published Online: Apr. 1, 2020  

Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory

Author Affiliations
1 Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China
2 Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai, China
3 Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
4 Federal Scientific Research Center Crystallography and Photonics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 59 Leninskii Pr-t, Moscow 119333, Russia
5 Federal Scientific Research Center Crystallography and Photonics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 59 Leninskii Pr-t, Moscow 119333, Russia
Abstract
Recent reports of the superconductivity in hydrides of two different families (covalent lattice, as in SH3 and clathrate-type H-cages containing La and Y atoms, as in LaH10 and YH6) have revealed new families of high-Tc materials with Tc’s near room temperature values. These findings confirm earlier expectations that hydrides may have very high Tc’s due to the fact that light H atoms have very high vibrational frequencies, leading to high Tc values within the conventional Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer phonon mechanism of superconductivity. However, as is pointed out by Ashcroft, it is important to have the metallic hydrogen “alloyed” with the elements added to it. This concept of a metallic alloy containing a high concentration of metal-like hydrogen atoms has been instrumental in finding new high-Tc superhydrides. These new superhydride “room-temperature” superconductors are stabilized only at very high pressures above 100 GPa, making the experimental search for their superconducting properties very difficult. We will review the current experimental and theoretical results for LaH10?x and YH6?x superhydrides.

Viktor Struzhkin, Bing Li, Cheng Ji, Xiao-Jia Chen, Vitali Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Ivan Troyan, Alexander Gavriliuk, Ho-kwang Mao. Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2020, 5(2): 028201.

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