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Rare-earth nickelates form an intriguing series of correlated perovskite oxides. Apart from LaNiO3, they exhibit on cooling a sharp metal-insulator electronic phase transition, a concurrent structural phase transition and a magnetic phase…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-07 Alain Mercy , Jordan Bieder , Jorge Iniguez , Philippe Ghosez

Using DFT+DMFT we study the normal-state electronic structure and magnetic correlations of the recently discovered alternating single-layer bilayer Raddlesden-Popper nickelate La$_5$Ni$_3$O$_{11}$ (1212-LNO). Our results exhibit qualitative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-30 I. V. Leonov

The discovery of pressure-induced superconductivity in two- and three-layer Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates has generated significant interest in these materials as a platform for unconventional superconductivity. While their ground state…

Although discovery in hydrogen induced electronic transition within perovskite family of rare-earth nickelate (ReNiO3) opens up a new paradigm in exploring both the new materials functionality and device applications, the existing research…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-14 Yi Bian , Haiyan Li , Fengbo Yan , Haifan Li , Jiaou Wang , Hao Zhang , Yong Jiang , Nuofu Chen , Jikun Chen

The prediction of high $T_c$ superconductivity in layers of LaNiO$_3$ through orbital engineering has led to extensive research efforts over the last fifteen years. During this period, a plethora of thin films and heterostructures based…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-10 J. Chakhalian , S. Middey

The nature of magnetism in layered Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates remains a central open question, particularly in light of recent observations of spin-wave-like magnetic excitations in metallic multilayer compounds. Here, we develop a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Jiong Mei , Tianyang Xie , Kun Jiang

The discovery of superconductivity in the Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates has opened a new chapter in the search for high superconducting transition temperatures ($T_\mathrm{c}$) materials. A central and puzzling feature of this family is…

Low-valent nickelates R$_{n+1}$Ni$_n$O$_{2n+2}$ (R = rare earth) containing Ni$^{1+}$ (d$^{9}$) with a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) square planar coordination geometry possess structural and electronic properties that are similar to…

For most metals, increasing temperature (T) or disorder will quicken electron scattering. This hypothesis informs the Drude model of electronic conductivity. However, for so-called bad metals this predicts scattering times so short as to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Jaramillo , Sieu D. Ha , D. M. Silevitch , Shriram Ramanathan

The rare-earth nickelates possess a diverse set of collective phenomena including metal-to-insulator transitions, magnetic phase transitions, and, upon chemical reduction, superconductivity. Here, we demonstrate epitaxial stabilization of…

Trilayer nickelates are a rich class of materials exhibiting diverse correlated phenomena, including superconductivity, density wave transitions, non-Fermi liquid behavior along with an unusual metal-to-metal transition around T* ~ 150 K.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-04 Sonia Deswal , Deepu Kumar , Dibyata Rout , Surjeet Singh , Pradeep Kumar

We report the crystal structures and physical properties of trilayer nickelates Nd$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ and Nd$_4$Ni$_3$O$_8$. Measurements of magnetization and electrical resistivity display contrasting behaviors in the two compounds.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-01 Qing Li , Chengping He , Xiyu Zhu , Jin Si , Xinwei Fan , Hai-Hu Wen

The recent discovery of superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ and La$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ under high pressure stimulates intensive research interests. These nickelates crystallize in an orthogonal/monoclinic structure with tilted NiO$_6$…

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in high-pressurized La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_{7-\delta}$ has garnered significant attention. Using density functional theory, we investigate the magnetic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-30 Xiao-Sheng Ni , Yuyang Ji , Lixin He , Tao Xie , Dao-Xin Yao , Meng Wang , Kun Cao

Rare-earth nickelates are strongly correlated oxides displaying a metal-to-insulator transition at a temperature tunable by the rare-earth ionic radius. In PrNiO$_3$ and NdNiO$_3$, the transition is very sharp and shows an hysteretic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-04 Daniele Preziosi , Anke Sander , Agnès Barthélémy , Manuel Bibes

The insulator-bad metal transition observed in the Jahn-Teller (JT) magnets orthonickelates RNiO$_3$ (R = rare earth or yttrium Y) is considered to be a canonical example of the Mott transition, traditionally described in the framework of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-12 A. S. Moskvin

Motivated by recent experiments, we use the $+U$ extension of the generalized gradient approximation to density functional theory to study superlattices composed of alternating layers of LaNiO$_3$ and LaMnO$_3$. For comparison we also study…

The recently discovered superconductivity with critical temperature $T_c$ up to 80 K in the double-layer Nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_{7-\delta}$ under pressure has drawn great attention. Here we report the positive muon spin relaxation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-14 Kaiwen Chen , Xiangqi Liu , Jiachen Jiao , Muyuan Zou , Yixuan Luo , Qiong Wu , Ningyuan Zhang , Yanfeng Guo , Lei Shu

We report a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the Ruddlesden-Popper layered nickelates La$_{m+1}$Ni$_m$O$_{3m+1}$ ($m = 1$ to 6) under pressure. Our results suggest that, while these Ruddlesden-Popper layered nickelates display many…

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

La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$, a bilayer nickelate with Ruddlesden-Popper structure, undergoes a pressure-induced structural transition from a tilted Amam phase to an untilted Fmmm (or I4/mmm) phase near 10-15 GPa, concomitant with the emergence of…