Quantum crystal structure in the 250-kelvin superconducting lanthanum hydride.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
02 2020
Historique:
received: 24 07 2019
accepted: 14 11 2019
entrez: 7 2 2020
pubmed: 7 2 2020
medline: 7 2 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The discovery of superconductivity at 200 kelvin in the hydrogen sulfide system at high pressures

Identifiants

pubmed: 32025016
doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-1955-z
pii: 10.1038/s41586-020-1955-z
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

66-69

Subventions

Organisme : European Research Council
Pays : International

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Auteurs

Ion Errea (I)

Fisika Aplikatua 1 Saila, Gipuzkoako Ingeniaritza Eskola, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastián, Spain.
Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU), San Sebastián, Spain.
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastián, Spain.

Francesco Belli (F)

Fisika Aplikatua 1 Saila, Gipuzkoako Ingeniaritza Eskola, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), San Sebastián, Spain.
Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU), San Sebastián, Spain.

Lorenzo Monacelli (L)

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.

Antonio Sanna (A)

Max-Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany.

Takashi Koretsune (T)

Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Terumasa Tadano (T)

Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

Raffaello Bianco (R)

Centro de Física de Materiales (CSIC-UPV/EHU), San Sebastián, Spain.

Matteo Calandra (M)

Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, Paris, France.

Ryotaro Arita (R)

Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Wako, Japan.

Francesco Mauri (F)

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Graphene Labs, Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy.

José A Flores-Livas (JA)

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. jose.flores@uniroma1.it.

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