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Ternary Phase Diagram of Nitrogen Doped Lutetium Hydrides
Moritz Gubler, Marco Krummenacher, Jonas A. Finkler, Stefan Goedecker
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This paper presents the results of an extensive structural search of ternary solids containing lutetium, nitrogen and hydrogen. Based on thousands of thermodynamically stable structures, available online, the convex hull of the formation enthalpies is constructed. To obtain the correct energetic ordering, the highly accurate RSCAN DFT functional is used in high quality all-electron calculations. In this way possible pseudopotential errors are eliminated. A novel lutetium hydride structure (HLu₂) that is on the convex hull is found in our search. An electron phonon analysis however shows that it is not a candidate structure for near ambient superconductivity. Besides this structure, which appears to have been missed in previous searches, possibly due to different DFT methodologies, our results agree closely with the results of previously published structure search efforts. This shows, that the field of crystal structure prediction has matured to a state where independent methodologies produce consistent and reproducible results, underlining the trustworthiness of modern crystal structure predictions. Hence it is quite unlikely that a structure, that would give rise within standard BCS theory to the superconducting properties, claimed to have been observed by Dasenbrock-Gammon et al. 10.1038/s41586-023-05742-0 , exists. This solidifies the evidence that no structure with conventional superconducting properties exists that could explain the experimental observation made by Dasenbrock-Gammon et al. 10.1038/s41586-023-05742-0
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