Superconductivity is the phenomenon by which, at sufficiently low temperatures, electric current can flow in a metal with no resistance. While certain metals are excellent superconductors, other metals cannot superconduct at all.
Understanding what makes a metal superconducting is still an open question in fundamental condensed matter physics. Also, superconductivity in simple elemental solids is of great importance for technological applications—consider that elemental aluminum is used ubiquitously for superconducting Josephson junctions employed in quantum computing (e.g., for qubit implementation).
For these reasons, an important line of research in recent decades has been devoted to finding new elements that could become superconducting under certain conditions.
In this paper, published in Physical Review Materials, we proposed a completely new twist to the search for new elements that can become superconductors.
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