Superconductivity at 250 K in lanthanum hydride under high pressures

@article{Drozdov2019SuperconductivityA2,
  title={Superconductivity at 250 K in lanthanum hydride under high pressures},
  author={Alexander P. Drozdov and Panpan Kong and Vasily S. Minkov and S P Besedin and Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov and Shirin Mozaffari and Luis Balicas and Fedor Fedorovich Balakirev and David E. Graf and Vitali B. Prakapenka and Eran Greenberg and Dmitry Knyazev and Marek Tkacz and Mikhail I. Eremets},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2019},
  volume={569},
  pages={528-531}
}
With the discovery1 of superconductivity at 203 kelvin in H3S, attention returned to conventional superconductors with properties that can be described by the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer and the Migdal–Eliashberg theories. Although these theories predict the possibility of room-temperature superconductivity in metals that have certain favourable properties—such as lattice vibrations at high frequencies—they are not sufficient to guide the design or predict the properties of new superconducting… Expand
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