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In materials science, much effort has been devoted to reproduce superconductivity in chemical compositions analogous to cuprate superconductors since their discovery over thirty years ago. This approach was recently successful in realising…

The recent discovery of superconductivity in oxygen-reduced monovalent nickelates has raised a new platform for the study of unconventional superconductivity, with similarities and differences with the cuprate high temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-16 Emily Been , Wei-Sheng Lee , Harold Y. Hwang , Yi Cui , Jan Zaanen , Thomas Devereaux , Brian Moritz , Chunjing Jia

The discovery of superconductivity in the infinite-layer nickelates has opened new perspectives in the context of quantum materials. We analyze, via first-principles calculations, the electronic properties of La$_2$NiO$_3$F -- the first…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-10 F. Bernardini , A. Demourgues , A. Cano

The recently discovered superconducting infinite-layer nickelates offer a novel platform to explore an exotic pairing mechanism in multi-band systems towards high-temperature superconductivity and associated rich quantum phases, contrasting…

The discovery of superconductivity in Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$ [1] introduced a new family of layered nickelate superconductors that has now been extended to include a range of Sr-doping [2, 3], Pr or La in place of Nd [4-6], and the…

Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in the Sr-doped layered nickelate NdNiO$_2$, we perform a systematic computational materials design of layered nickelates that are dynamically stable and whose electronic structure…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-12 Motoaki Hirayama , Terumasa Tadano , Yusuke Nomura , Ryotaro Arita

The discovery of nickelate superconductivity provided the first example of a non-copper-based material with superconductivity strongly analogous to the cuprates, but recent findings raise questions and inconsistencies around the electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-05 Y. N. Huang , D. J. Singh

The discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates has ignited stark interest within the scientific community, particularly regarding its likely unconventional origin. Conflicting magnetotransport measurements report either…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-16 Fabian Jakubczyk , Armando Consiglio , Domenico Di Sante , Ronny Thomale , Carsten Timm

Within a Hubbard model, we investigate the superconducting pairing behavior of infinite-layer nickelate $\mathrm{NdNiO_2}$ and cuprate superconductors by using the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method. Our focus is on comparing their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-28 Yicheng Xiong , Hang Ma , Hongxing Liu , Runyu Ma , Tianxing Ma

The discovery of unconventional superconductivity in hole doped NdNiO2, similar to CaCuO2, has received enormous attention. However, different from CaCuO2, RNiO2 (R = Nd, La) has itinerant electrons in the rare-earth spacer layer. Previous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-18 Yuhao Gu , Sichen Zhu , Xiaoxuan Wang , Jiangping Hu , Hanghui Chen

Motivated by the recent theoretical materials design of superconducting $d^9$ nickelates for which the charge transfer from the NiO$_2$ to the block layer is completely suppressed [M. Hirayama $\textit{et al.}$, Phys. Rev. B $\textbf{101}$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-13 Motoharu Kitatani , Yusuke Nomura , Motoaki Hirayama , Ryotaro Arita

The discovery of infinite-layer nickelate superconductors has spurred enormous interest. While the Ni$^{1+}$ cations possess nominally the same 3$d^9$ configuration as Cu$^{2+}$ in cuprates, the electronic structure variances remain…

The recently discovered infinite-layer nickelates show great promise in helping to disentangle the various cooperative mechanisms responsible for high-temperature superconductivity. However, lack of antiferromagnetic order in the pristine…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-18 Christopher Lane , Ruiqi Zhang , Bernardo Barbiellini , Robert S. Markiewicz , Arun Bansil , Jianwei Sun , Jian-Xin Zhu

Rare-earth nickelates RNiO$_2$ adopting an infinite-layer phase show superconductivity once La, Pr or Nd are substituted by a divalent cation. Either in the pristine or doped form, these materials are reported to adopt a high symmetry,…

After being expected as a promising analogue to cuprates for decades, superconductivity was recently discovered in infinite-layer nickelates, providing new opportunities to explore mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity. However,…

Motivated by the discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates RNiO$_2$ (R= rare-earth), and the subsequent enhancement of their T$_c$ with pressure, we investigate the evolution of the electronic structure and magnetic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-28 Shekhar Sharma , Myung-Chul Jung , Harrison LaBollita , Antia S. Botana

The recent and exciting discovery of superconductivity in the hole-doped infinite-layer nickelate Nd 1-{\delta} Sr {\delta} NiO 2 draws strong attention to correlated quantum materials. From a theoretical view point, this new class of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-05 Byungkyun Kang , Corey Melnick , Patrick Semon , Siheon Ryee , Myung Joon Han , Gabriel Kotliar , Sangkook Choi

Recently superconductivity at 9 - 15 K was discovered in an infinite-layer nickelate (Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$ films), which has received enormous attention. Since the $Ni^{1+}$ ionic state in NdNiO$_2$ may have the $3d^9$ outer-shell…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-04-06 Qing Li , Chengping He , Jin Si , Xiyu Zhu , Yue Zhang , Hai-Hu Wen

Infinite-layer nickelate thin films materialize an intriguing new platform for high-temperature unconventional superconductivity, with LaNiO$_2$/SrTiO$_3$ as reference setup. We discuss the relative stability of the elementary interfaces of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-03 F. Bernardini , A. Cano

Employing first-principles density functional theory calculations and Wannierization of the low energy band structure, we analyze the electronic structure of undoped, infinite-layer nickelate compounds, NdNiO$_2$, PrNiO$_2$ and LaNiO$_2$.…