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Under Pressure: Imaging Hydride Superconductivity
Thursday, August 28th, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT
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Pressure alters the physical, chemical, and electronic properties of matter. By compressing a material between two opposing brilliant cut diamonds, the diamond anvil cell (DAC) enables tabletop experiments to reach pressures more than a million times atmospheric pressure. Since its development over half a century ago, the DAC has allowed experimenters to directly access pressure as a thermodynamic tuning parameter and has had a dramatic impact on quantum science, chemistry, and materials physics. Among those impacts, a tremendous amount of recent attention has focused on the discovery of superconductivity in a class of hydrogen-based materials. When compressed to megabar pressures, the so-called super-hydrides are believed to superconduct at temperatures near room temperature, and their study has led to a nascent field that is equal parts exciting and controversial. Part of the controversy stems from the nature of the tool itself: Especially at high pressures, extracting local information from inside a diamond anvil cell is tremendously challenging.
- Introduce the hydride superconductors and the challenges in high-pressure in situ characterization
- Introduce the NV–DAC approach for imaging magnetic and stress fields, with discussions of the technique's capabilities, operating principles, and implementation
- Demonstrate strong evidence for superconducting behavior in cerium hydride
- High pressure scientists and engineers
- Superconductivity researchers
- Condensed matter physicists
- Material scientists
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