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In this paper we investigate the electronic and superconducting properties in nickelate compounds of NiO2 through Perturbative Density Functional Theory (P-DFT) and multi-band BCS theory. We consider three different cases of study (i) the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-16 Julian Faundez , C. A. Aguirre , S. G. Magalhães , J. Barba-Ortega

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

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 hole-doped infinite-layer NdNiO$_2$ -- a transition metal (TM) oxide that is both isostructural and isoelectronic to cuprate superconductors -- has lead to renewed enthusiasm in the hope of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-01-17 Vamshi M. Katukuri , Nikolay A. Bogdanov , Ali Alavi

The fundamental properties of infinite-layer rare-earth nickelates (RNiO2) are carefully revisited and compared with those of CaCuO2 and RNiO3 perovskites. Combining first-principles and finite-temperature second-principles calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-01-04 Yajun Zhang , Jingtong Zhang , Xu He , Jie Wang , Philippe Ghosez

The discovery of superconductivity in multilayer nickelates under pressure has intensified interest in understanding the magnetic and electronic properties of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates. Using density functional theory with Hubbard…

In cuprates, electron doping yields a much lower superconducting $T_c$ than hole doping. For recently discovered nickelate superconductors, the analogous doping strategies become more challenging. Consequently, while hole-doped…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-21 Xun Liu , Chao Deng , Wenfeng Wu , Liang Si , Mi Jiang

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…

We present a comparative density-functional theory plus dynamical mean-field theory (DFT+DMFT) study of the two known superconducting members of the rare-earth (R) layered nickelate family: hole-doped RNiO$_{2}$ ($n=\infty$) and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-01 Harrison LaBollita , Antia S. Botana

After the significant discovery of the hole-doped nickelate compound Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$, an analysis of the electronic structure, orbital components, Fermi surfaces and band topology could be helpful to understand the mechanism of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-18 Jiacheng Gao , Zhijun Wang , Chen Fang , Hongming Weng

Motivated by the recent observation of superconductivity in strontium doped NdNiO$_2$, we study the superconducting instabilities in this system from various vantage points. Starting with first-principles calculations, we construct two…

Since the discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates RNiO$_2$ (R=La, Pr, Nd), great research efforts have been paid to unveil its underlying superconducting mechanism. However, the physical origin of the intriguing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-20 T. Y. Xie , Z. Liu , Chao Cao , Z. F. Wang , J. L. Yang , W. Zhu

Following the discovery of superconductivity in the cuprates and the seminal work by Anderson, the theoretical efforts to understand high-temperature superconductivity have been focusing to a large extent on a simple model: the one-band…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-25 Motoharu Kitatani , Liang Si , Oleg Janson , Ryotaro Arita , Zhicheng Zhong , Karsten Held

Several reports about infinite-layer nickelate thin films suggest that the superconducting critical temperature versus chemical doping phase diagram has a dome-like shape, similar to cuprates. Here, we demonstrate a highly reproducible…

Recent experiments have shown that the reduced multilayer rare-earth (RE) nickel oxides of form RE$_{p+1}$Ni$_p$O$_{2p+2}$ may belong to the novel family of superconducting lanthanide nickelates. Here, the correlated electronic structure of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-07 Frank Lechermann

Superconductivity found in doped NdNiO$_2$ is puzzling as two local symmetries of doped NiO$_2$ layers compete, with presumably far-reaching implications for the involved mechanism: a cuprate-like regime with Zhang-Rice singlets {\cblue is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Tharathep Plienbumrung , Maria Daghofer , Andrzej M. Oleś

The recent discovery of superconductivity in hole-doped NdNiO$_2$ thin films has captivated the condensed matter physics community. Such compounds with a formal Ni$^+$ valence have been theoretically proposed as possible analogues of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-29 Francesco Petocchi , Viktor Christiansson , Fredrik Nilsson , Ferdi Aryasetiawan , Philipp Werner

We present electronic structure calculations on layered nickelate oxyfluorides derived from the Ruddlesden-Popper arisotype structure in search of unidentified materials that may host nickelate superconductivity. By performing anion…

The demonstration of superconductivity in nickelate analogues of high $T_c$ cuprates provides new perspectives on the physics of correlated electron materials. The degree to which the nickelate electronic structure is similar to that of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-02 Jonathan Karp , Antia S. Botana , Michael R. Norman , Hyowon Park , Manuel Zingl , Andrew Millis

The recent observation of superconductivity in an infinite-layer and quintuple-layer nickelate within the same $R_{n+1}$Ni$_{n}$O$_{2n+2}$ series ($R$ = rare-earth, $n=2-\infty$, with $n$ indicating the number of NiO$_{2}$ layers along the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Harrison LaBollita , Myung-Chul Jung , Antia S. Botana