Application of high pressure can substantially enhance the chemical reactivity of xenon and has recently extended the Xe-compounds to unexpected elements such as Fe and H. Using unbiased structure searching techniques combined with first-principles calculations, we predict novel compounds of stable XeH2 and XeH4, and metastable XeH, XeH3, XeH5, XeH6, XeH7, and XeH8 under high pressure. Rather than van der Waals complexes, these are weakly covalent or ionic compounds stabilized by a pressure-induced increase in charge transfer from Xe to H atoms. The calculated electronic structures with hybrid exchange-correlation functionals reveal that only XeH and XeH2 are metalized under 300 GPa. For the metallic XeH and XeH2 at certain pressures, the superconducting critical temperatures are finally studied, by using Allen-Dynes modified McMillan equation combined with the calculated electron-phonon coupling parameter.

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