Nickelate superconductors have attracted a great deal of attention over the past few decades due to their similar crystal and electronic structures with high-temperature cuprate superconductors. Here, we report the superconductivity in a pressurized Ruddlesden-Popper phase single crystal, La4Ni3O10 (n = 3), and its interplay with the density wave order in the phase diagram. With increasing pressure, the density wave order as indicated by the anomaly in the resistivity is progressively suppressed, followed by the emergence of the superconductivity around 25 K under I4/mmm space group. The susceptibility measurements confirm bulk superconductivity with a volume fraction exceeding 80%. Moreover, theoretical analysis unveils that antiferromagnetic (AFM) super-exchange interactions can serve as the effective pairing interaction for the emergence of superconductivity (SC) in pressurized La4Ni3O10. Our research provides a new platform for the investigation of the unconventional superconductivity mechanism in Ruddlesden-Popper trilayer perovskite nickelates.
@article{arxiv.2311.07423,
title = {Superconductivity in trilayer nickelate La4Ni3O10 under pressure},
author = {Mingxin Zhang and Cuiying Pei and Di Peng and Xian Du and Weixiong Hu and Yantao Cao and Qi Wang and Juefei Wu and Yidian Li and Huanyu Liu and Chenhaoping Wen and Jing Song and Yi Zhao and Changhua Li and Weizheng Cao and Shihao Zhu and Qing Zhang and Na Yu and Peihong Cheng and Lili Zhang and Zhiwei Li and Jinkui Zhao and Yulin Chen and Changqing Jin and Hanjie Guo and Congjun Wu and Fan Yang and Qiaoshi Zeng and Shichao Yan and Lexian Yang and Yanpeng Qi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07423},
year = {2025}
}