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Motivated by the discovery of superconductivity in bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ at 80 K and the increased superconducting transition temperature, $T_\text{c}$, up to 92 K in single crystals of La$_2$SmNi$_2$O$_7$ under pressure, we…

The ambient-pressure superconductivity in $\mathrm{La}_{3}\mathrm{Ni}_{2}\mathrm{O}_{7}$ thin films via compressive epitaxial strain provides a highly accessible platform for diverse characterization techniques, facilitating the studies of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-11 Maosen Wang , Bo Hao , Wenjie Sun , Shengjun Yan , Shengwang Sun , Hongyi Zhang , Zhengbin Gu , Yuefeng Nie

The recent discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelate films has aroused great interest since it provides a new platform to explore the mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. However, superconductivity only appears…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-09-20 Yueying Li , Wenjie Sun , Jiangfeng Yang , Xiangbin Cai , Wei Guo , Zhengbin Gu , Ye Zhu , Yuefeng Nie

The recent discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer (IL, ABO$_2$) nickelates has opened a new avenue to deepen the understanding of high-temperature superconductivity. However, progress in this field is slowed by significant…

Discovery of high-$T_c$ superconductivity (SC) in the bilayer nickelate series La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ have attracted substantial interest, providing a new platform for exploring unconventional SC. Certain experimental evidence has pointed to a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-23 Zhiming Pan , Chen Lu , Fan Yang , Congjun Wu

Motivated by the recent discovery of superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ (LNO) under pressure, we study a mixed-dimensional (mixD) bilayer $t_\parallel$-$J_\parallel$-$J_\perp$ model, which has been proposed as an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-11 Hannah Lange , Ao Chen , Antoine Georges , Fabian Grusdt , Annabelle Bohrdt , Christopher Roth

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under high pressure has stimulated intensive investigations concerning its paring mechanism and a correct description of its effective low-energy physics.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-17 Jiangfan Wang , Yi-feng Yang

The discovery of superconductivity in a $d^{9-{\delta}}$ nickelate has inspired disparate theoretical perspectives regarding the essential physics of this class of materials. A key issue is the magnitude of the magnetic superexchange, which…

The discovery of nickelate superconductivity provided the first example of a non-copper-based material with superconductivity strongly analogous to the cuprates, but recent findings raise questions and inconsistencies around the electron…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-05 Y. N. Huang , D. J. Singh

The recent discovery of high-transition temperature ($T_\mathrm{c}$) superconductivity in pressurized La$_{3}$Ni$_{2}$O$_{7}$ bulk crystals has attracted keen attention due to its characteristic energy diagram of $e_{g}$ orbitals,…

Motivated by the recently reported signatures of superconductivity in trilayer La$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ under pressure, we comprehensively study this system using {\it ab initio} and random-phase approximation techniques. Without electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-09-24 Yang Zhang , Ling-Fang Lin , Adriana Moreo , Thomas A. Maier , Elbio Dagotto

Superconductivity in nickelates apparently takes place in two different Ni oxidation regimes, namely either for infinite-layer-type compounds close to Ni$^{+}$, or for Ruddlesden-Popper materials close to Ni$^{2+}$. The reduced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-12 Frank Lechermann , Steffen Bötzel , Ilya M. Eremin

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

Superconductivity realized in bilayer nickelate thin films enables direct spectroscopic and transport studies at ambient pressure. However, a persistent two-step resistive transition remains a major barrier to achieving optimal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-10 Ziao Han , Lifen Xiang , X. J. Zhou , Zhihai Zhu

Motivated by the recent observation of superconductivity with $T_c \sim 80$ K in pressurized La3Ni2O7 [Nature 621, 493 (2023)], we explore the structural and electronic properties in A3Ni2O7 bilayer nickelates (A=La-Lu, Y, Sc) as a function…

High-transition-temperature (high-T_c) superconductivity in cuprates has been discovered for more than three decades, but the underlying mechanism remains a mystery. Cuprates are the only unconventional superconducting family that host bulk…

We comment on the electronic structure of Nickelate system $Nd Ni O_2$ which shows superconductivity on doping. The doped system $Nd_{0.8}Sr_{0.2}NiO_2$ shows (most probably unconventional) superconductivity with transition temperatures…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-18 Navinder Singh

The superconducting infinite-layer (IL) nickelates offer a new platform for investigating the long-standing problem of high-temperature superconductivity. Many models were proposed to understand its superconducting mechanisms based on the…

A polymorph of the bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7 that displays an alternating single-layer (SL) and trilayer (TL; 1313) stacking pattern has recently been discovered. Signatures of superconductivity under pressure have been found in this…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-23 Shekhar Sharma , Yi-Feng Zhao , Antia S. Botana

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…