An international research team has discovered by computer simulation that lanthanum hydride under high pressure, which becomes superconducting at almost room temperature (-23°C), is a "quantum solid" that is stable over a wide pressure range thanks to quantum fluctuations of hydrogen atoms

2020

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

   Ion Errea , Francesco Belli , Lorenzo Monacelli , Antonio Sanna , Takashi Koretsune , Terumasa Tadano, Raffaello Bianco , Matteo Calandra , Ryotaro Arita , Francesco Mauri , and 1 more author

   Nature, Feb 2020

   DOI Bib

   @article{Errea2020-nb,
     title = {Quantum crystal structure in the 250-kelvin superconducting
                   lanthanum hydride},
     author = {Errea, Ion and Belli, Francesco and Monacelli, Lorenzo and Sanna, Antonio and Koretsune, Takashi and Tadano, Terumasa and Bianco, Raffaello and Calandra, Matteo and Arita, Ryotaro and Mauri, Francesco and Flores-Livas, Jos{\'e} A},
     journal = {Nature},
     volume = {578},
     number = {7793},
     pages = {66--69},
     month = feb,
     year = {2020},
     language = {en},
     issn = {0028-0836, 1476-4687},
     pmid = {32025016},
     doi = {10.1038/s41586-020-1955-z},
     pmc = {5502634},
   }