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The pairing mechanism in cuprates remains as one of the most challenging issues in the field of condensed matter physics. The unique 3d9 electron orbital of the Cu2+ ionic states in cuprates is supposed to be the major player for the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-01 Qiangqiang Gu , Yueying Li , Siyuan Wan , Huazhou Li , Wei Guo , Huan Yang , Qing Li , Xiyu Zhu , Xiaoqing Pan , Yuefeng Nie , Hai-Hu Wen

Infinite layer nickelates have garnered significant attention due to their potential for high-temperature superconductivity. Despite extensive research, the interplay between oxygen stoichiometry and electronic properties in infinite layer…

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…

We investigate the structural and electronic conditions conducive to superconductivity in layered nickelates using density functional theory with Hubbard corrections (DFT+$U$). For both the bilayer and 1-3 polymorphs of La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-06-16 Bipasa Samanta , Alexandru B. Georgescu

Nickelate superconductors, ${R_{1-x}}{A_x}Ni{O_2}$ (where R is a rare earth metal and A = Sr, Ca), experimentally discovered in 2019 exhibit many unexplained mysteries as the existence of a superconducting state with $T_c$ up to 18 K in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-16 E. F. Talantsev

After being expected as a promising analogue to cuprates for decades, superconductivity was recently discovered in infinite-layer nickelates, providing new opportunities to explore mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity. However,…

We systematically studied in-plane optical conductivity of FeSe$_{1-x}$Te$_{x}$ thin films fabricated on CaF$_{2}$ substrates for $x$ = 0, 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4. This system shows a large enhancement of superconducting transition temperature…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-08-04 M. Nakajima , K. Yanase , M. Kawai , D. Asami , T. Ishikawa , F. Nabeshima , Y. Imai , A. Maeda , S. Tajima

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

The optical conductivity of the one-band Hubbard model is calculated using the 'Dynamical Cluster Approximation' implementation of dynamical mean field theory for parameters appropriate to high temperature copper-oxide superconductors. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-29 Nan Lin , Emanuel Gull , A. J. Millis

High-transition-temperature ($T_{C}$) superconductivity is recently discovered in Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelate films with extraordinarily strong oxidation. While investigating phase diagrams is essential for uncovering the…

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 family of infinite-layer nickelates promises important insights into the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity. Since superconductivity has so far only been observed in epitaxial thin films, heteroepitaxy with the substrate or a…

The asymmetry between electron and hole doping remains one of the central issues in high-temperature cuprate superconductivity, but our understanding of the electron-doped cuprates has been hampered by apparent discrepancies between the…

Following the successful prediction of the superconducting phase diagram for infinite-layer nickelates, here we calculate the superconducting $T_{\mathrm{c}}$ vs. the number of layers $n$ for finite-layer nickelates using the dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-23 Andreas Hausoel , Simone Di Cataldo , Motoharu Kitatani , Oleg Janson , Karsten Held

A defining signature of strongly correlated electronic systems is the existence of competing phases with similar ground state energies, resulting in a rich phase diagram. While in the recently discovered nickelate superconductors, a high…

We investigate the optical conductivity of half-filled N-leg Hubbard ladders far into the ``deconfinement'' limit (i.e., weak Hubbard interaction and relatively strong interchain hopping). The N-leg Hubbard ladder is equivalent to an N-band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Hopkinson , K. Le Hur

We investigated the optical spectrum of Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 single crystals with various doping levels. It is found that the low-energy optical conductivity spectrum of this system can be decomposed into two components: a sharp Drude term and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-04-02 M. Nakajima , S. Ishida , K. Kihou , Y. Tomioka , T. Ito , Y. Yoshida , C. H. Lee , H. Kito , A. Iyo , H. Eisaki , K. M. Kojima , S. Uchida

Recently, superconductivity was discovered in the infinite layer of hole-doped nickelates NdNiO$_{2}$. Contrary to this, superconductivity in LaNiO$_{2}$ is still under debate. This indicates the crucial role played by the $f$ electrons on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-09 Andrzej Ptok , Surajit Basak , Przemysław Piekarz , Andrzej M. Oleś

The discovery of superconducting nickelates provides a unique opportunity to explore the pairing mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Here, we use ultrafast terahertz spectroscopy to probe the temperature-dependent superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-25 Qingming Huang , Xiaofang Fu , Junlong Wu , Laifeng Li , Liang Qiao , Ye Yang

In cuprates, electron doping yields a much lower superconducting $T_c$ than hole doping. For recently discovered nickelate superconductors, the analogous doping strategies become more challenging. Consequently, while hole-doped…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-21 Xun Liu , Chao Deng , Wenfeng Wu , Liang Si , Mi Jiang