Magnetic field screening in hydrogen-rich high-temperature superconductors

V. S. Minkov (), S. L. Bud’ko, F. F. Balakirev, V. B. Prakapenka, S. Chariton, R. J. Husband, H. P. Liermann and M. I. Eremets ()
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V. S. Minkov: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
S. L. Bud’ko: Iowa State University
F. F. Balakirev: Los Alamos National Laboratory
V. B. Prakapenka: University of Chicago
S. Chariton: University of Chicago
R. J. Husband: DESY
H. P. Liermann: DESY
M. I. Eremets: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

Nature Communications, 2022, vol. 13, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract In the last few years, the superconducting transition temperature, Tc, of hydrogen-rich compounds has increased dramatically, and is now approaching room temperature. However, the pressures at which these materials are stable exceed one million atmospheres and limit the number of available experimental studies. Superconductivity in hydrides has been primarily explored by electrical transport measurements, whereas magnetic properties, one of the most important characteristic of a superconductor, have not been satisfactory defined. Here, we develop SQUID magnetometry under extreme high-pressure conditions and report characteristic superconducting parameters for Im-3m-H3S and Fm-3m-LaH10—the representative members of two families of high-temperature superconducting hydrides. We determine a lower critical field Hc1 of ∼0.82 T and ∼0.55 T, and a London penetration depth λL of ∼20 nm and ∼30 nm in H3S and LaH10, respectively. The small values of λL indicate a high superfluid density in both hydrides. These compounds have the values of the Ginzburg-Landau parameter κ ∼12–20 and belong to the group of “moderate” type II superconductors, rather than being hard superconductors as would be intuitively expected from their high Tcs.

Date: 2022
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