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The observation of superconductivity in infinite layer nickelate (Nd,Sr)NiO$_{2}$ thin films has led to rapid theoretical and experimental investigations of these copper-oxide-analogue systems [1-15]. Superconductivity has also been found…

A variety of nickel oxide compounds have long been studied for their manifestation of various correlated electron phenomena. Recently, superconductivity was observed in nanoscale infinite layer nickelate thin films of…

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

We report the observation of superconductivity in infinite-layer Ca-doped LaNiO$_2$ (La$_{1-x}$Ca$_x$NiO$_2$) thin films and construct their phase diagram. Unlike the metal-insulator transition in Nd- and Pr-based nickelates, the undoped…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-25 S. W. Zeng , C. J. Li , L. E. Chow , Y. Cao , Z. T. Zhang , C. S. Tang , X. M. Yin , Z. S. Lim , J. X. Hu , P. Yang , A. Ariando

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…

We report evidence for superconductivity with onset temperatures up to 11 K in thin films of the infinite-layer nickelate parent compound NdNiO$_2$. A combination of oxide molecular-beam epitaxy and atomic hydrogen reduction yields samples…

In a recent experiment [Nature 642, 58 (2025)], a new record for the superconducting critical temperature $T_c$ among infinite-layer nickelates has been reported in doped SmNiO$_2$. Here, we use the cutting-edge dynamical vertex…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-24 Viktor Christiansson , Karsten Held

Recently Li et al (2019 Nature 572 624) discovered a new type of oxide superconductor Nd0.8Sr0.2NiO2 with T$_c$ = 14 K. To classify superconductivity in this infinite-layer nickelate experimental upper critical field, B$_{c2}$(T), and the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-05 E. F. Talantsev

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

Nickelate superconductors provide a valuable new platform for the study of unconventional superconductivity that is complementary to the cuprates. One of the central puzzles about high-temperature superconductors is what factors determine…

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

Superconductivity has been discovered recently in nickel based 112 infinite thin films $R_{1-x}$A$_x$NiO$_2$ ($R$ = La, Nd, Pr and A = Sr, Ca). They are isostructural to the infinite-layer cuprate (Ca,Sr)CuO$_2$ and are supposed to have a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-01-14 Qiangqiang Gu , Hai-Hu Wen

We have revisited the electronic structure of infinite-layer RNiO$_2$ (R= La, Nd) in light of the recent discovery of superconductivity in Sr-doped NdNiO$_2$. From a comparison to their cuprate counterpart CaCuO$_2$, we derive essential…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-02-05 Antia S. Botana , Michael R. Norman

The mechanism of unconventional superconductivity in correlated materials remains a great challenge in condensed matter physics. The recent discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates, as analog to high-Tc cuprates, has…

The intensive search for alternative non-cuprate high-transition-temperature ($T_c$) superconductors has taken a positive turn recently with the discovery of superconductivity in infinite layer nickelates. This discovery is expected to be…

Infinite-layer nickelates present a new family of potential unconventional superconductors. A key open question is the superconducting pairing symmetry. We present low-temperature measurements of the London penetration depth in optimally…

Motivated by the recent theoretical materials design of superconducting $d^9$ nickelates for which the charge transfer from the NiO$_2$ to the block layer is completely suppressed [M. Hirayama $\textit{et al.}$, Phys. Rev. B $\textbf{101}$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-13 Motoharu Kitatani , Yusuke Nomura , Motoaki Hirayama , Ryotaro Arita

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

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 search for oxide materials with physical properties similar to the cuprate high Tc superconductors, but based on alternative transition metals such as nickel, has grown and evolved over time. The recent discovery of superconductivity in…

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