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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,…

Since the discovery of cuprate, the origin of high-T$_c$ superconductivity has been an outstanding puzzle. Recently, high-T$_c$ superconductivity was observed in a bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under pressure, whose structure hosts…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-09 Yuhao Gu , Congcong Le , Zhesen Yang , Xianxin Wu , Jiangping Hu

The discovery of superconductivity at 80 K under high pressure in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ presents the groundbreaking confirmation that high-$T_c$ superconductivity is a property of strongly correlated materials beyond cuprates. We use density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-30 Zhen Fan , Jian-Feng Zhang , Bo Zhan , Dingshun Lv , Xing-Yu Jiang , Bruce Normand , Tao Xiang

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 discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates has drawn considerable attention; however, a consensus on the fundamental building blocks and common ingredients necessary to understand and describe their ground states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-07 Cheng Peng , Hong-Chen Jiang , Brian Moritz , Thomas P. Devereaux , Chunjing Jia

Following the successful prediction of the superconducting phase diagram for infinite-layer nickelates, here we calculate the superconducting $T_{\mathrm{c}}$ vs. the number of layers $n$ for finite-layer nickelates using the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Andreas Hausoel , Simone Di Cataldo , Motoharu Kitatani , Oleg Janson , Karsten Held

Superconductivity in square BX$_2$-plane-based materials currently is only found in $d^9$ configuration. This raises a question that whether other configurations $d^{n}$ ($n\neq 9$) of transition metals in the prototype of square BX$_2$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-04 Zi-Jian Lang

The discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates establishes a new category of unconventional superconductors that share structural and electronic similarities with cuprates. Despite exciting advances, such as the…

In a previous study, we proposed a possibility of high $T_c$ superconductivity in mixed-anion nickelates with $d^{8+\delta}$ electron configuration. The theory was based on the fact that the two-orbital Hubbard model, when all the intra-…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-25 Naoya Kitamine , Masayuki Ochi , Kazuhiko Kuroki

We investigate the electronic structure of nickelate superconductor NdNiO2 upon hole doping, by means of density-functional theory and dynamical mean-field theory. We demonstrate the strong intrinsic hybridization between strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-13 Zhao Liu , Chenchao Xu , Chao Cao , W. Zhu , Z. F. Wang , Jinlong Yang

Flat bands coupled with magnetism and topological orders near or at the Fermi level are well known to drive exotic correlation physics and unconventional superconductivity. Here, based on first-principles modeling combined with an in-depth…

The discovery of superconductivity in thin films ($\sim$10 nm) of infinite-layer hole-doped NdNiO$_2$ has invigorated the field of high-temperature superconductivity research, reviving the debate over contrasting views that nickelates that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-15 Antia S. Botana , Kwan-Woo Lee , Michael R. Norman , Victor Pardo , Warren E. Pickett

Superconductivity with a remarkably high $T_c$ has recently been found in Sr-doped NdNiO$_2$ thin films. While this system bears strong similarities to the cuprates, some differences, such as a weaker antiferromagnetic exchange coupling and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-15 Philipp Werner , Shintaro Hoshino

Nickelates have continued to surprise since their unconventional superconductivity was discovered. Recently, the layered nickelate La$_5$Ni$_3$O$_{11}$ with hybrid single-layer and bilayer stacking showed superconductivity under high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-07 Yang Zhang , Ling-Fang Lin , Adriana Moreo , Satoshi Okamoto , Thomas A. Maier , Elbio Dagotto

The superconducting infinite-layer (IL) nickelates offer a new platform for investigating the long-standing problem of high-temperature superconductivity. Many models were proposed to understand its superconducting mechanisms based on the…

The occurrence of superconductivity in proximity to various strongly correlated phases of matter has drawn extensive focus on their normal state properties, to develop an understanding of the state from which superconductivity emerges. The…

To investigate the detailed magnetic properties of a recently discovered superconducting nickelate Nd6Ni5O12, we performed the first-principles electronic structure calculation based on density functional theory. The band dispersion,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-02 Terri Yoon , Myung Joon Han

High-temperature unconventional superconductivity quite generically emerges from doping a strongly correlated parent compound, often (close to) an antiferromagnetic insulator. The recently developed dynamical vertex approximation is a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-04 Simone Di Cataldo , Paul Worm , Jan Tomczak , Liang Si , Karsten Held

The predominant Ni-multiorbital nature of infinite-layer neodynium nickelate at stoichiometry and with doping is revealed. We investigate the correlated electronic structure of NdNiO$_2$ at lower temperatures and show that first-principles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-06 Frank Lechermann

Motivated by recent photoemission measurements on the La$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$, we carry out a systematic study of the infinite-layer nickelate using both dynamical mean-field theory and density matrix embedding theory. The renormalized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-07 Ziyan Chen , Yuxin Wang , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu