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The recent discovery of superconductivity in bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ (327-LNO) under pressure stimulated much interest in layered nickelates. However, superconductivity was not found in another bilayer nickelate system, La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_6$…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-09 Yang Zhang , Ling-Fang Lin , Adriana Moreo , Thomas A. Maier , Elbio Dagotto

The recent discovery of high-$T_c$ superconductivity in Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates has motivated extensive efforts to explore higher $T_c$ superconductors. Here, we systematically investigate Nd-doped La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ using density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-06 Cui-Qun Chen , Wenyuan Qiu , Zhihui Luo , Meng Wang , Dao-Xin Yao

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 recent discovery of superconductivity in the bilayer Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ under high pressure has generated much interest in the superconducting pairing mechanism of nickelates. Despite extensive work, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-25 Han-Xiang Xu , Daniel Guterding

Intertwined charge and spin correlations are ubiquitous in a wide range of transition metal oxides and are often perceived as intimately related to unconventional superconductivity. Theoretically envisioned as driven by strong electronic…

Elucidating spin correlations in the parent compounds of high-temperature superconductors is crucial for understanding superconductivity. We used neutron scattering to study spin correlations in Li$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$ODFeSe, an insulating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-06 Hongliang Wo , Bingying Pan , Die Hu , Yu Feng , A. D. Christianson , Jun Zhao

Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates exhibit high-temperature superconductivity closely intertwined with charge and spin density wave order. However, fundamental questions persist regarding the interplay between the associated density wave (DW)…

Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates exhibit superconductivity under pressure in bulk crystals and under epitaxial constraint in thin films, while remaining highly sensitive to sample quality, oxygen content, defects, and stress conditions. We…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-15 Liling Sun , Shu Cai , Jinyu Zhao , Qi Wu , Yang Ding , Tao Xiang , Ho-kwang Mao

The recent discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in the bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ has spurred intense interest in exploring analogous mechanisms in other transition metal oxides. This raises a pivotal question: can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-11 Jian-Hong She , Jing-Xuan Wang , Rong-Qiang He , Zhong-Yi Lu

The discovery of superconductivity in Nd$_{0.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$NiO$_2$ [1] introduced a new family of layered nickelate superconductors that has now been extended to include a range of Sr-doping [2, 3], Pr or La in place of Nd [4-6], and the…

We report a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the Ruddlesden-Popper layered nickelates La$_{m+1}$Ni$_m$O$_{3m+1}$ ($m = 1$ to 6) under pressure. Our results suggest that, while these Ruddlesden-Popper layered nickelates display many…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-07 Yang Zhang , Ling-Fang Lin , Adriana Moreo , Satoshi Okamoto , Thomas A. Maier , Elbio Dagotto

Inspired by the possibility that superconducting properties may be altered by applying a perpendicular electric field in the Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) bilayer nickelate La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$, we investigated the imbalanced two-orbital bilayer…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-09 Yongping Wei , Xun Liu , Fan Yang , Mi Jiang

We employ correlated density-functional theory methods (DFT + Hubbard $U$) to investigate the spin-density wave state of the bilayer Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelate La$_{3}$Ni$_{2}$O$_{7}$ which becomes superconducting under pressure. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-17 Harrison LaBollita , Victor Pardo , Michael R. Norman , Antia S. Botana

Low-valent nickelates R$_{n+1}$Ni$_n$O$_{2n+2}$ (R = rare earth) containing Ni$^{1+}$ (d$^{9}$) with a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) square planar coordination geometry possess structural and electronic properties that are similar to…

Recent progress on the signatures of pressure-induced high temperature superconductivity in Ruddlesden Popper (RP) nickelates (Lan+1NinO3n+1) has attracted growing interest in both theoretical calculations and experimental efforts. The…

Superconductivity appears to compete against the spin-density-wave in Fe pnictides. However, optimally cobalt doped samples show a quasi-two-dimensional spin excitation centered at the (0.5, 0.5, L) wavevector, "the spin resonance peak",…

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

Many physical properties of the copper oxide high temperature superconductors appear to defy the conventional (one-electron) theory of metals, and the development of new theories incorporating strong electron correlations is currently at…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 H. F. Fong , P. Bourges , Y. Sidis , L. P. Regnault , A. Ivanov , G. D. Gu , N. Koshizuka , B. Keimer

The synthesis of high-quality Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) nickelates remains challenging due to variations in oxygen content and the prevalence of intergrown RP phases. Precisely controlling the stoichiometry and characterizing the resulting…

Beyond the quasi-two-dimensional (2D) paradigm of cuprates, the role of the third dimension of the Ruddlesden-Popper bilayer nickelates is essential to decoding their superconducting mechanism. Here, using angle-resolved photoemission…