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Nickel-based superconductors provide a long-awaited experimental platform to explore possible cuprate-like superconductivity. Despite similar crystal structure and $d$ electron filling, these systems exhibit several differences. Nickelates…

Motivated by the recently reported high-temperature superconductivity in the bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ (LNO) under pressure, here we comprehensively study this system using {\it ab initio} techniques. The Ni $3d$ orbitals have a large…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-29 Yang Zhang , Ling-Fang Lin , Adriana Moreo , Elbio Dagotto

We propose that the superconductivity recently observed in Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$ with critical temperature in the range $9$ K to $15$ K results from the same charge carriers and the same mechanism that we have proposed give rise to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-10-01 J. E. Hirsch , F. Marsiglio

The discovery of superconductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates has drawn great attention. Many works have been done to study the superconductivity as well as to find more superconducting RP nickelates. However, there is a lack of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-18 Zhenfeng Ouyang , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

The recent discovery of superconductivity in pressurized Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates has provided new perspectives on the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Up to now, most experiments concentrated on the…

The discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates brings us tantalizingly close to a new material class that mirrors the cuprate superconductors. Here, we report on magnetic excitations in these nickelates, measured using…

We use first-principles calculations to find that in infinite-layer nickelates $R$NiO$_2$, the widely studied tetragonal $P4/mmm$ structure is only dynamically stable for early lanthanide elements $R$ = La-Sm. For late lanthanide elements…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-29 Chengliang Xia , Jiaxuan Wu , Yue Chen , Hanghui Chen

Motivated by cuprate and nickelate superconductors, we perform a comprehensive study of the superconducting instability in the single-band Hubbard model. We calculate the spectrum and superconducting transition temperature $T_{\rm c}$ as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-13 Motoharu Kitatani , Liang Si , Paul Worm , Jan M. Tomczak , Ryotaro Arita , Karsten Held

The discovery of superconductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates has established a new frontier in the study of high-temperature superconductors. However, the underlying pairing mechanism and its relationship to the material's electronic…

Superconductivity with $T_c \approx 15K$ was recently found in doped NdNiO$_2$. The Ni$^{1+}$O$_2$ layers are expected to be Mott insulators so hole doping should produce Ni$^{2+}$ with $S=1$, incompatible with robust superconductivity. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-27 Mi Jiang , Mona Berciu , George A. Sawatzky

The recent discovery of superconductivity under pressure in Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates has attracted a great deal of attention. Here, using charge-self consistent density-functional theory plus dynamical mean-field theory, we study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Harrison LaBollita , Antia S. Botana

The recent observation of superconductivity at relatively high temperatures in hole doped NdNiO$_2$ has generated considerable interest, particularly due to its similarity with the infinite layer cuprates. Building on the observation that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-06 Ya-Hui Zhang , Ashvin Vishwanath

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…

We study the normal state electronic structure of the recently discovered infinite-layer nickelate superconductor, Nd$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_2$. Using SrNiO$_2$ as a reference, we find that Nd$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_2$ is a multi-orbital electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-04 Y. Wang , C. -J. Kang , H. Miao , G. Kotliar

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates has drawn great attention. However, unlike cuprates and iron-based superconductors, Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates exhibit superconductivity either under high…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-20 Chengliang Xia , Jiale Chen , Hongquan Liu , Hanghui Chen

In contrast to the cuprates, where the proximity of antiferromagnetism (AFM) and superconductivity is well established, first indications for AFM interactions in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates were only recently obtained. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-01-10 Armin Sahinovic , Benjamin Geisler , Rossitza Pentcheva

We analyze the electronic structure of the recently synthesized higher-order nickelate Ruddlesden-Popper phases La$_{n+1}$Ni$_n$O$_{3n+1}$ ($n=4-6$) using first-principles calculations. For all materials, our results show large holelike…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-08 Myung-Chul Jung , Jesse Kapeghian , Chase Hanson , Betül Pamuk , Antia S. Botana

Signatures of superconductivity under pressure have recently been reported in the bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ and trilayer La$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates with general chemical formula La$_{n+1}$Ni$_n$O$_{3n+1}$ ($n=$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-07-14 Yi-Feng Zhao , Antia S. Botana

Significant magnetic exchange interactions have been observed in infinite-layer nickelates RNiO2 (R = La, Pr, Nd), which exhibit unconventional superconductivity upon hole doping. Despite their structural and Fermi surface similarities to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-15 Yanbing Zhou , Dan Zhao , Boyun Zeng , Chengliang Xia , Yu Wang , Hanghui Chen , Tao Wu , Xianhui Chen

Recently, signatures of superconductivity with critical temperature from 20 to 30 K have been reported in pressured trilayer nickelate La$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ through a pressure-induced structure transition. Here we explore the evolution of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-18 Peng-Fei Tian , Hao-Tian Ma , Xing Ming , Xiao-Jun Zheng , Huan Li