Search for high-Tcconventional superconductivity at megabar pressures in the lithium-sulfur system
@article{Kokail2016SearchFH, title={Search for high-Tcconventional superconductivity at megabar pressures in the lithium-sulfur system}, author={C. Kokail and Christopher Heil and Lilia Boeri Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics and Graz University of Technology Department of Materials and University of Oxford}, journal={Physical Review B}, year={2016}, volume={94} }
Superconductivity at high-pressures has attracted considerable interest after the report of a record critical temperature (${T}_{c}$) of 203 K in sulfur hydride (H${}_{3}$S) at 200 GPa. In this work, the authors predict several novel lithium-sulfur compounds at high pressure using evolutionary crystal structure prediction techniques and investigate their superconducting properties with density functional linear response calculations. The calculations reveal an intrinsic correlation between…
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