Superconducting high-pressure phase of platinum hydride from first principles

Xiang-Feng Zhou ( ),1,2 Artem R. Oganov,3,4 Xiao Dong ( ),1 Lixin Zhang ( ),1 Yongjun Tian( ),5 and Hui-Tian Wang ( )1,2,* 1School of Physics and Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China 2National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China 3Department of Geosciences, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and New York Center for Computational Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-2100, USA 4Department of Geology, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia 5State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China (Received 20 November 2010; revised manuscript received 17 May 2011; published 17 August 2011)