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Wang BY, Wang TC, Hsu YT, Osada M, Lee K, Jia C, Duffy C, Li D, Fowlie J, Beasley MR, Devereaux TP, Fisher IR, Hussey NE, Hwang HY. Effects of rare-earth magnetism on the superconducting upper critical field in infinite-layer nickelates. Sci Adv 2023; 9:eadf6655. [PMID: 37196089 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf6655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The search for superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates was motivated by analogy to the cuprates, and this perspective has framed much of the initial consideration of this material. However, a growing number of studies have highlighted the involvement of rare-earth orbitals; in that context, the consequences of varying the rare-earth element in the superconducting nickelates have been much debated. Here, we show notable differences in the magnitude and anisotropy of the superconducting upper critical field across the La-, Pr-, and Nd-nickelates. These distinctions originate from the 4f electron characteristics of the rare-earth ions in the lattice: They are absent for La3+, nonmagnetic for the Pr3+ singlet ground state, and magnetic for the Nd3+ Kramer's doublet. The unique polar and azimuthal angle-dependent magnetoresistance found in the Nd-nickelates can be understood to arise from the magnetic contribution of the Nd3+ 4f moments. Such robust and tunable superconductivity suggests potential in future high-field applications.
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- Bai Yang Wang
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EMFL) and Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EMFL) and Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-EMFL) and Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University, Toernooiveld 7, 6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
- H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Ferenc Segedin D, Goodge BH, Pan GA, Song Q, LaBollita H, Jung MC, El-Sherif H, Doyle S, Turkiewicz A, Taylor NK, Mason JA, N'Diaye AT, Paik H, El Baggari I, Botana AS, Kourkoutis LF, Brooks CM, Mundy JA. Limits to the strain engineering of layered square-planar nickelate thin films. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1468. [PMID: 36928184 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37117-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2022] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023] Open
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The layered square-planar nickelates, Ndn+1NinO2n+2, are an appealing system to tune the electronic properties of square-planar nickelates via dimensionality; indeed, superconductivity was recently observed in Nd6Ni5O12 thin films. Here, we investigate the role of epitaxial strain in the competing requirements for the synthesis of the n = 3 Ruddlesden-Popper compound, Nd4Ni3O10, and subsequent reduction to the square-planar phase, Nd4Ni3O8. We synthesize our highest quality Nd4Ni3O10 films under compressive strain on LaAlO3 (001), while Nd4Ni3O10 on NdGaO3 (110) exhibits tensile strain-induced rock salt faults but retains bulk-like transport properties. A high density of extended defects forms in Nd4Ni3O10 on SrTiO3 (001). Films reduced on LaAlO3 become insulating and form compressive strain-induced c-axis canting defects, while Nd4Ni3O8 films on NdGaO3 are metallic. This work provides a pathway to the synthesis of Ndn+1NinO2n+2 thin films and sets limits on the ability to strain engineer these compounds via epitaxy.
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Krieger G, Martinelli L, Zeng S, Chow LE, Kummer K, Arpaia R, Moretti Sala M, Brookes NB, Ariando A, Viart N, Salluzzo M, Ghiringhelli G, Preziosi D. Charge and Spin Order Dichotomy in NdNiO_{2} Driven by the Capping Layer. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:027002. [PMID: 35867432 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.027002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates holds exciting analogies with that of cuprates, with similar structures and 3d-electron count. Using resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, we studied electronic and magnetic excitations and charge density correlations in Nd_{1-x}Sr_{x}NiO_{2} thin films with and without an SrTiO_{3} capping layer. We observe dispersing magnons only in the capped samples, progressively dampened at higher doping. We detect an elastic resonant scattering peak in the uncapped x=0 compound at wave vector (∼⅓,0), remindful of the charge order signal in hole doped cuprates. The peak weakens at x=0.05 and disappears in the superconducting x=0.20 film. The role of the capping on the electronic reconstruction far from the interface remains to be understood.
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- G Krieger
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPCMS UMR 7504, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117551 Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117551 Singapore, Singapore
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- ESRF, The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38043 Grenoble, France
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- Quantum Device Physics Laboratory, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- ESRF, The European Synchrotron, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38043 Grenoble, France
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 117551 Singapore, Singapore
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPCMS UMR 7504, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
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- CNR-SPIN Complesso di Monte S. Angelo, via Cinthia-I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
- CNR-SPIN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPCMS UMR 7504, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
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The recent discovery of the superconductivity in the doped infinite layer nickelatesRNiO2(R= La, Pr, Nd) is of great interest since the nickelates are isostructural to doped (Ca, Sr)CuO2having superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of about 110 K. Verifying the commonalities and differences between these oxides will certainly give a new insight into the mechanism of highTcsuperconductivity in correlated electron systems. In this paper, we review experimental and theoretical works on this new superconductor and discuss the future perspectives for the 'nickel age' of superconductivity.
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- Yusuke Nomura
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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Superconductivity has been discovered recently in infinite-layer nickel-based 112 thin films R1−xAxNiO2 (R = La, Nd, Pr and A = Sr, Ca). They are isostructural to the infinite-layer cuprate (Ca,Sr)CuO2 and are supposed to have a formal Ni 3d9 valence, thus providing a new platform to study the unconventional pairing mechanism of high-temperature superconductors. This important discovery immediately triggers a huge amount of innovative scientific curiosity in the field. In this paper, we try to give an overview of the recent research progress on the newly found superconducting nickelate systems, both from experimental and theoretical aspects. We mainly focus on the electronic structures, magnetic excitations, phase diagrams and superconducting gaps, and finally make some open discussions for possible pairing symmetries in Ni-based 112 systems. The infinite-layer nickel-based 112 thin films R1−xAxNiO2 can host superconductivity up to 15 K R1−xAxNiO2 is a multiband system, in which the short-range antiferromagnetic fluctuations can be detected R1−xAxNiO2 has an unconventional superconducting pairing sate with a robust d-wave gap and a full gap without unified understanding The nickelate system provides a new platform for researching unconventional superconductivity
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Shen Y, Fabbris G, Miao H, Cao Y, Meyers D, Mazzone DG, Assefa TA, Chen XM, Kisslinger K, Prabhakaran D, Boothroyd AT, Tranquada JM, Hu W, Barbour AM, Wilkins SB, Mazzoli C, Robinson IK, Dean MPM. Charge Condensation and Lattice Coupling Drives Stripe Formation in Nickelates. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 126:177601. [PMID: 33988428 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.177601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Revealing the predominant driving force behind symmetry breaking in correlated materials is sometimes a formidable task due to the intertwined nature of different degrees of freedom. This is the case for La_{2-x}Sr_{x}NiO_{4+δ}, in which coupled incommensurate charge and spin stripes form at low temperatures. Here, we use resonant x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy to study the temporal stability and domain memory of the charge and spin stripes in La_{2-x}Sr_{x}NiO_{4+δ}. Although spin stripes are more spatially correlated, charge stripes maintain a better temporal stability against temperature change. More intriguingly, charge order shows robust domain memory with thermal cycling up to 250 K, far above the ordering temperature. These results demonstrate the pinning of charge stripes to the lattice and that charge condensation is the predominant factor in the formation of stripe orders in nickelates.
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- Y Shen
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Material Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Lin JQ, Villar Arribi P, Fabbris G, Botana AS, Meyers D, Miao H, Shen Y, Mazzone DG, Feng J, Chiuzbăian SG, Nag A, Walters AC, García-Fernández M, Zhou KJ, Pelliciari J, Jarrige I, Freeland JW, Zhang J, Mitchell JF, Bisogni V, Liu X, Norman MR, Dean MPM. Strong Superexchange in a d^{9-δ} Nickelate Revealed by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering. Phys Rev Lett 2021; 126:087001. [PMID: 33709756 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.087001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The discovery of superconductivity in a d^{9-δ} 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 relates to whether cuprate-like high-temperature nickelate superconductivity could be realized. We address this question using Ni L-edge and O K-edge spectroscopy of the reduced d^{9-1/3} trilayer nickelates R_{4}Ni_{3}O_{8} (where R=La, Pr) and associated theoretical modeling. A magnon energy scale of ∼80 meV resulting from a nearest-neighbor magnetic exchange of J=69(4) meV is observed, proving that d^{9-δ} nickelates can host a large superexchange. This value, along with that of the Ni-O hybridization estimated from our O K-edge data, implies that trilayer nickelates represent an intermediate case between the infinite-layer nickelates and the cuprates. Layered nickelates thus provide a route to testing the relevance of superexchange to nickelate superconductivity.
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- J Q Lin
- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Material Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
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- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, UMR 7614, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin, BP 48, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0DE, United Kingdom
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
- Institute of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, China
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Quasi-2D square planar nickelates exhibit key ingredients of high-Tc superconducting cuprates. Whether bulk samples are superconducting remains an open question, single crystals are ideal platforms for addressing such fundamental questions.
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- Junjie Zhang
- Institute of Crystal Materials
- State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials
- Shandong University
- Jinan
- China
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- Institute of Crystal Materials
- State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials
- Shandong University
- Jinan
- China
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Zhang J, Phelan D, Botana AS, Chen YS, Zheng H, Krogstad M, Wang SG, Qiu Y, Rodriguez-Rivera JA, Osborn R, Rosenkranz S, Norman MR, Mitchell JF. Intertwined density waves in a metallic nickelate. Nat Commun 2020; 11:6003. [PMID: 33243978 PMCID: PMC7691989 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19836-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Nickelates are a rich class of materials, ranging from insulating magnets to superconductors. But for stoichiometric materials, insulating behavior is the norm, as for most late transition metal oxides. Notable exceptions are the 3D perovskite LaNiO3, an unconventional paramagnetic metal, and the layered Ruddlesden-Popper phases R4Ni3O10, (R = La, Pr, Nd). The latter are particularly intriguing because they exhibit an unusual metal-to-metal transition. Here, we demonstrate that this transition results from an incommensurate density wave with both charge and magnetic character that lies closer in its behavior to the metallic density wave seen in chromium metal than the insulating stripes typically found in single-layer nickelates like La2-xSrxNiO4. We identify these intertwined density waves as being Fermi surface-driven, revealing a novel ordering mechanism in this nickelate that reflects a coupling among charge, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom that differs not only from the single-layer materials, but from the 3D perovskites as well. Layered Ruddlesden-Popper structure nickelates R4Ni3O10 (R = La,Pr) show an unusual metal-to-metal transition, but its origin has remained elusive for more than two decades. Here, the authors show that this transition results from intertwined density waves that arise from a coupling between charge and spin degrees of freedom
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- Junjie Zhang
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States. .,Institute of Crystal Materials, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, 250100, Jinan, Shandong, China.
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, United States
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- ChemMatCARS, The University of Chicago, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- ChemMatCARS, The University of Chicago, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 20899, United States.,Department of Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, United States
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, United States.
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Upton MH, Zhang J, Zheng H, Said A, Mitchell JF. Electronic coupling in square planar La 4Ni 3O 8. J Phys Condens Matter 2020; 32:425503. [PMID: 32629441 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aba314] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A study of addexcitation in La4Ni3O8(La-438) using x-ray absorption scattering and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the Ni K-edge is presented. The incident energy dependence of thisddexcitation shows a maximum at the 1s→ 4pπtransition. Its intensity at the main edge is proportional to the amount of incident x-ray polarization parallel to thec-axis. These observations suggest that the RIXS process underlying this excitation includes a strong Ni 3d-Ni 4pCoulomb interaction and excludes the '4p-as-spectator' approximation. The dominant Ni 3dCoulomb interaction is with Ni 4pπwith limited or no interaction with the Ni 4pσ. An insulating gap closing is observed as a function of temperature.
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- M H Upton
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States of America
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States of America
- Institute of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, People's Republic of China
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States of America
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- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States of America
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- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States of America
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Fan X, Wen HH. Antiferromagnetism, charge ordering and stretched Ni-O bond in Ln 4Ni 3O 8 (Ln = La, Nd). J Phys Condens Matter 2020; 33:075503. [PMID: 33137795 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abc6c4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Superconductivity was recently observed in Sr-doped NdNiO2 film after a long pursuit, which inspires us to investigate another Ruddlesden-Popper-based nickelate Nd4Ni3O8 which may hold an antiferromagnetic order and a charge stripe order. Through ab initio calculations, we find that the obtained results turn out to be similar to those of La4Ni3O8. However, we propose that Ni1+ ions in the charge stripe order observed in La4Ni3O8 are in fact antiferromagnetically coupled through a twofold double-exchange mediated by the intermediate Ni2+ ion and the stretched Ni1+-O bond. Under high pressure, the extension of the stretched Ni1+-O bond is not favored and the system will be pushed into a meta-stable insulating state. Our picture can successfully explain the temperature dependence of resistivity under high pressure of La4Ni3O8, and shows also consistency with the insulating behavior of Nd4Ni3O8 observed in recent experiment. Considering a +1.33 average valence of Ni in Nd4Ni3O8, which is very close to that of the Sr-doped NdNiO2, our results support the earlier proposal that a possible way leading to metallicity and even superconductivity is to suppress the existing antiferromagnetism and charge ordering.
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- Xinwei Fan
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Center for Superconducting Physics and Materials, Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Center for Superconducting Physics and Materials, Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
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