Defecton Contribution to the High-Temperature Superconductivity of Hydrides

Abstract

We introduce below the concept of defecton, and describe briefly the electron polaron effect, the clustering of defectons, and also the defecton mechanism of superconductivity. It is shown that in the case of high-temperature superconducting metal hydrides, which acquire superconducting properties under pressure of hundreds of gigapascals, this mechanism can make a significant contribution to the Cooper pairing.