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Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Vol. 9, Issue 3, 037401 (2024)

Unveiling a novel metal-to-metal transition in LuH₂: Critically challenging superconductivity claims in lutetium hydrides

Dong Wang¹, Ningning Wang², Caoshun Zhang¹, Chunsheng Xia¹..., Weicheng Guo¹, Xia Yin¹, Kejun Bu¹, Takeshi Nakagawa¹, Jianbo Zhang¹, Federico Gorelli¹, Philip Dalladay-Simpson¹, Thomas Meier¹, Xujie Lü¹, Liling Sun^1,2, Jinguang Cheng², Qiaoshi Zeng¹, Yang Ding^1,a) and Ho-kwang Mao^1,3|Show fewer author(s)

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¹Center for High-Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Beijing 100094, China

²Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

³Shanghai Key Laboratory of Material Frontiers Research in Extreme Environments (MFree), Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences (SHARPS), Shanghai 201203, China

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Dong Wang, Ningning Wang, Caoshun Zhang, Chunsheng Xia, Weicheng Guo, Xia Yin, Kejun Bu, Takeshi Nakagawa, Jianbo Zhang, Federico Gorelli, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Thomas Meier, Xujie Lü, Liling Sun, Jinguang Cheng, Qiaoshi Zeng, Yang Ding, Ho-kwang Mao. Unveiling a novel metal-to-metal transition in LuH₂: Critically challenging superconductivity claims in lutetium hydrides[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(3): 037401 Copy Citation Text

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Dong Wang, Ningning Wang, Caoshun Zhang, Chunsheng Xia, Weicheng Guo, Xia Yin, Kejun Bu, Takeshi Nakagawa, Jianbo Zhang, Federico Gorelli, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Thomas Meier, Xujie Lü, Liling Sun, Jinguang Cheng, Qiaoshi Zeng, Yang Ding, Ho-kwang Mao. Unveiling a novel metal-to-metal transition in LuH₂: Critically challenging superconductivity claims in lutetium hydrides[J]. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2024, 9(3): 037401

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