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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…

Understanding the electronic behavior of Ni$^{2+}$ in a square planar environment of oxygen is the key to unravel the origin of the recently discovered superconductivity in the hole doped nickelate Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$. To identify…

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 discovery of superconductivity in hole-doped planar nickelates R1-xSrNiO2 (R=Pr,Nd) raises the foundational question of how the electronic structure and electronic correlations of these Ni1+ compounds compare to those of the Cu2+…

The recent discovery of high-T$_{c}$ superconductivity (HTS) in Sr-doped NdNiO$_2$ has sparked a renewed interest in investigating nickelates as cuprate counterparts. Parent cuprates [Cu$^{2+}$: d$^9$] are antiferromagnetic charge-transfer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Jyoti Krishna , Harrison LaBollita , Adolfo O. Fumega , Victor Pardo , Antia S. Botana

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

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

Optimization of unconventional superconductivity involves a balance of interaction strengths. Precise determination of correlation strength across different material families is therefore important. Here, we present a combined X-ray…

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

Based on first-principles calculations including a Coulomb repulsion term, we identify trends in the electronic reconstruction of $A$NiO$_2$/SrTiO$_3$(001) ($A=$ Pr, La) and $A$CuO$_2$/SrTiO$_3$(001) ($A=$ Ca, Sr). Common to all cases is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-03-22 Benjamin Geisler , Rossitza Pentcheva

Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the copper oxide materials, there have been sustained efforts to both understand the origins of this phase and discover new cuprate-like superconducting materials. One prime…

The breakthrough discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates, and subsequently in several superconducting nickelates with more complex layered structures, capped a search spanning more than two decades and opened an entirely…

Recently discovered superconductivity in hole-doped nickelate Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$ has attracted intensive attention in the field. An immediate question is how to improve its superconducting properties. Guided by the key…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-15 Zi-Jian Lang , Ruoshi Jiang , Wei Ku

The discovery of superconductivity in Sr-doped NdNiO$_{2}$ is a crucial breakthrough in the long pursuit for nickel oxide materials with electronic and magnetic properties similar to those of the cuprates. NdNiO$_2$ is the infinite-layer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-05 Emilian M. Nica , Jyoti Krishna , Rong Yu , Qimiao Si , Antia S. Botana , Onur Erten

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 nickelates has generated significant interest in condensed matter physics. Nickelate superconductors, which are hole-doped within the layered structure of RNiO$_2$, share structural similarities with…

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

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 recently discovered superconductivity in Nd$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$NiO$_2$ provides a new opportunity for studying strongly correlated unconventional superconductivity. The single-hole Ni$^+$ ($3d^9$) configuration in the parent compound…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-01-08 Lun-Hui Hu , Congjun Wu