Viewpoint: the road to room-temperature conventional superconductivity
| Autor: | Lilia Boeri, Giovanni B. Bachelet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Superconductivity
superconductivity hydrides electron-phonon interaction crystal structure prediction novel superconductors Room-temperature superconductor Art history 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Condensed Matter Physics 01 natural sciences Honor 0103 physical sciences General Materials Science 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal. 31(23) |
| ISSN: | 1361-648X |
| Popis: | It is a honor to write a contribution on this memorial for Sandro Massidda. For both of us, at different stages in our lives, Sandro was first and foremost a friend. We both admired his humble, playful and profound approach to life and physics. In this contribution we describe the route which permitted to meet a long-standing challenge in solid state physics, i.e. room temperature superconductivity. In less than 20 years the critical temperature of conventional superconductors, which in the last century had been widely believed to be limited to 25 K, was raised from 40 K in MgB2 to 265 K in LaH10. This discovery was enabled by the development and application of computational methods for superconductors, a field in which Sandro Massidda played a major role. |
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