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Physical Review Letters, volume 119, issue 10, publication number 107001

Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity.

Peng Feng 1, 2, 3
Sun Ying 3
Needs R. J. 5
Wu Qiang 6
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Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 10084, China
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College of Physics and Electronic Information, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang 471022, China and Henan Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Transformation and Detection, Luoyang 471022, China
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Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United Kingdom and Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, 2–1–1 Katahira, Aoba, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom
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National key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, CAEP, Mianyang 621900, China
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2017-09-08
Quartile SCImago
Q1
Quartile WOS
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Impact factor8.6
ISSN00319007, 10797114
General Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
Room-temperature superconductivity has been a long-held dream and an area of intensive research. Recent experimental findings of superconductivity at 200 K in highly compressed hydrogen (H) sulfides have demonstrated the potential for achieving room-temperature superconductivity in compressed H-rich materials. We report first-principles structure searches for stable H-rich clathrate structures in rare earth hydrides at high pressures. The peculiarity of these structures lies in the emergence of unusual H cages with stoichiometries H_{24}, H_{29}, and H_{32}, in which H atoms are weakly covalently bonded to one another, with rare earth atoms occupying the centers of the cages. We have found that high-temperature superconductivity is closely associated with H clathrate structures, with large H-derived electronic densities of states at the Fermi level and strong electron-phonon coupling related to the stretching and rocking motions of H atoms within the cages. Strikingly, a yttrium (Y) H_{32} clathrate structure of stoichiometry YH_{10} is predicted to be a potential room-temperature superconductor with an estimated T_{c} of up to 303 K at 400 GPa, as derived by direct solution of the Eliashberg equation.

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Peng F. et al. Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity. // Physical Review Letters. 2017. Vol. 119. No. 10. 107001
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Peng F., Sun Y., Pickard C. J., Needs R. J., Wu Q., Ma Y. Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity. // Physical Review Letters. 2017. Vol. 119. No. 10. 107001
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TY - JOUR
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.107001
UR - https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.119.107001
TI - Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity.
T2 - Physical Review Letters
AU - Peng, Feng
AU - Sun, Ying
AU - Pickard, C. J.
AU - Needs, R. J.
AU - Wu, Qiang
AU - Ma, Yan-Ming
PY - 2017
DA - 2017/09/08 00:00:00
PB - American Physical Society (APS)
IS - 10
VL - 119
SN - 0031-9007
SN - 1079-7114
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@article{2017_Peng,
author = {Feng Peng and Ying Sun and C. J. Pickard and R. J. Needs and Qiang Wu and Yan-Ming Ma},
title = {Hydrogen Clathrate Structures in Rare Earth Hydrides at High Pressures: Possible Route to Room-Temperature Superconductivity.},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
year = {2017},
volume = {119},
publisher = {American Physical Society (APS)},
month = {sep},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.119.107001},
number = {10},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.107001}
}
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