Materials Today, volume 33, pages 36-44

Superconductivity at 161 K in thorium hydride ThH10: Synthesis and properties

Semenok Dmitry V. ¹

Oganov A. R. ^{1, 2, 3}

Kvashnin Alexander G. ^{1, 3}

Troyan I. A.

Pudalov V.M.

Svitlyk Volodymyr ⁴

Fominski Vyacheslav Yu ⁵

Sadakov A.V. ⁶

Sobolevskiy O. A. ⁶

Ivanova Anna G.

Ivanova Anna ⁷

Pudalov Vladimir M. ⁶

Troyan Ivan A. ⁷

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Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center 121025, 3 Nobel Street, Moscow, Russia |

International Center for Materials Discovery, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China |

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 141700, 9 Institutsky Lane, Dolgoprudny, Russia |

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ID27 High Pressure Beamline, ESRF, BP220, 38043 Grenoble, France |

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National research nuclear university MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Kashirskoe sh., 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia |

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P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,119991 Moscow, Russia |

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Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Federal Scientific Research Center Crystallography and Photonics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 119333, Russia

FSRC "Crystallography and photonics" of NRC «Kurchatov Institute»

Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography

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Publication date: 2020-03-01

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Here we report targeted high-pressure synthesis of two novel high-$T_C$ hydride superconductors, $P6_3/mmc$-$ThH_9$ and $Fm\bar{3}m$-$ThH_{10}$, with the experimental critical temperatures ($T_C$) of 146 K and 159-161 K and upper critical magnetic fields ($\mu$$H_C$) 38 and 45 Tesla at pressures 170-175 Gigapascals, respectively. Superconductivity was evidenced by the observation of zero resistance and a decrease of $T_C$ under external magnetic field up to 16 Tesla. This is one of the highest critical temperatures that has been achieved experimentally in any compounds, along with such materials as $LaH_{10}$, $H_3S$ and $HgBa_2Ca_xCu_2O_{6+z}$. Our experiments show that $fcc$-$ThH_{10}$ has stabilization pressure of 85 GPa, making this material unique among all known high-$T_C$ metal polyhydrides. Two recently predicted Th-H compounds, $I4/mmm$-$ThH_4$ (> 86 GPa) and $Cmc2_1$-$ThH_6$ (86-104 GPa), were also synthesized. Equations of state of obtained thorium polyhydrides were measured and found to perfectly agree with the theoretical calculations. New phases were examined theoretically and their electronic, phonon, and superconducting properties were calculated.

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Semenok D. V. et al. Superconductivity at 161 K in thorium hydride ThH10: Synthesis and properties // Materials Today. 2020. Vol. 33. pp. 36-44.

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Semenok D. V., Kvashnin A. G., Svitlyk V., Fominski V. Yu., Sadakov A., Sobolevskiy O. A., Pudalov V., Troyan I. A., Oganov A. R., Ivanova A. G., Ivanova A., Pudalov V. M., Troyan I. A. Superconductivity at 161 K in thorium hydride ThH10: Synthesis and properties // Materials Today. 2020. Vol. 33. pp. 36-44.

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DO - 10.1016/j.mattod.2019.10.005

UR - https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.mattod.2019.10.005

TI - Superconductivity at 161 K in thorium hydride ThH10: Synthesis and properties

T2 - Materials Today

AU - Semenok, Dmitry V.

AU - Kvashnin, Alexander G.

AU - Svitlyk, Volodymyr

AU - Fominski, Vyacheslav Yu

AU - Sadakov, A.V.

AU - Sobolevskiy, O. A.

AU - Pudalov, V.M.

AU - Troyan, I. A.

AU - Oganov, A. R.

AU - Ivanova, Anna G.

AU - Ivanova, Anna

AU - Pudalov, Vladimir M.

AU - Troyan, Ivan A.

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@article{2020_Semenok,

author = {Dmitry V. Semenok and Alexander G. Kvashnin and Volodymyr Svitlyk and Vyacheslav Yu Fominski and A.V. Sadakov and O. A. Sobolevskiy and V.M. Pudalov and I. A. Troyan and A. R. Oganov and Anna G. Ivanova and Anna Ivanova and Vladimir M. Pudalov and Ivan A. Troyan},

title = {Superconductivity at 161 K in thorium hydride ThH10: Synthesis and properties},

journal = {Materials Today},

year = {2020},

volume = {33},

publisher = {Elsevier},

month = {mar},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.mattod.2019.10.005},

pages = {36--44},

doi = {10.1016/j.mattod.2019.10.005}

}

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