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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

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

Nickel/Bismuth (Ni/Bi) bilayers have recently attracted attention due to the occurrence of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the superconducting state. Here, we report on the structural, magnetic and electric characterization of thin film…

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

A central challenge in nanoscale superconductivity is to understand and exploit the combined action of quantum confinement and proximity effects in experimentally realistic metallic heterostructures. We theoretically investigate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-27 Giovanni A. Ummarino , Alessio Zaccone

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…

Ever since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates, gaining microscopic insights into the nature of pairing in strongly correlated, repulsively interacting fermionic systems has remained one of the greatest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-02 Henning Schlömer , Ulrich Schollwöck , Fabian Grusdt , Annabelle Bohrdt

The discovery of ambient-pressure nickelate high-temperature superconductivity provides a new platform for probing the underlying superconducting mechanisms. However, the thermodynamic metastability of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-05 Wei Lv , Zihao Nie , Heng Wang , Haoliang Huang , Guangdi Zhou , Qikun Xue , Zhuoyu Chen

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in both bulk and thin-film bilayer nickelates has garnered significant attention. In this study, inspired by recent STM experiments on thin films, we investigate the quasiparticle…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-17 Zhongyi Zhang , Jun Zhan , Congcong Le , Hoi Chun Po , Jiangping Hu , Xianxin Wu

Achieving electrostatic control of quantum phases is at the frontier of condensed matter research. Recent investigations have revealed superconductivity tunable by electrostatic doping in twisted graphene heterostructures and in…

Dimensionality of a physical system, conventionally an invariant geometric characteristic, fundamentally governs the universality class of phase transitions and the landscape of emergent collective phenomena. In low-dimensional or layered…

The pairing symmetry of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates is a fundamental yet experimentally challenging question. We employ high-energy electron irradiation to induce disorder in superconducting Nd$_{0.825}$Sr$_{0.175}$NiO$_2$…

Superconductivity in the vicinity of a competing electronic order often manifests itself with a superconducting dome, centred at a presumed quantum critical point in the phase diagram. This common feature, found in many unconventional…

We report theoretical predictions on the pairing symmetry of the newly discovered superconducting nickelate Nd$_{1-x}$Sr$_{x}$NiO$_{2}$ based on the renormalized mean-field theory for a generalized model Hamiltonian proposed in [Phys. Rev.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Zhan Wang , Guang-Ming Zhang , Yi-feng Yang , Fu-Chun Zhang

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in pressurized and thin film nickelates has generated intense interest, yet the nature of magnetism in their ambient-pressure parent phases remains poorly understood, despite its…

The observation of high-$T_c$ superconductivity in bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under high pressure provides a new venue for exploring novel unconventional superconductors and elucidating the mechanism of high-$T_c$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-10 Yingying Gao , Wei Zhou , W. H. Guo , Chunqiang Xu , H. F. Chen , Z. D. Han , Xiaofeng Xu , Yinzhong Wu , Bin Qian

Recently, the superconductivity of bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7 has been observed in the thin film at ambient pressure, facilitated by epitaxial strain. Here, we investigate the effects of film thickness and carrier doping on the electronic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-27 Haoliang Shi , Zihao Huo , Guanlin Li , Hao Ma , Tian Cui , Dao-Xin Yao , Defang Duan

The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under high pressure has sparked a surge of research into Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates. Currently, stabilizing the bilayer RP phases with smaller $A$-site ions…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-02-06 Jia-Yi Lu , Jia-Xin Li , Xin-Yu Zhao , Ya-Nan Zhang , Yi-Qiang Lin , Kai-Xin Ye , Hui-Qiu Yuan , Guang-Han Cao

Infinite layer nickelates provide a new route beyond copper oxides to address outstanding questions in the field of unconventional superconductivity. However, their synthesis poses considerable challenges, largely hindering experimental…

The computational and experimental exploration of the phase diagrams of binary hydrides under high pressure has uncovered phases with novel stoichiometries and structures, some which are superconducting at quite high temperatures. Herein we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-08 Tiange Bi , Niloofar Zarifi , Tyson Terpstra , Eva Zurek