Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates

Hepting, M.; Li, D.; Jia, C. J.; Lu, H.; Paris, E.; Tseng, Y.; Feng, X.; Osada, M.; Been, E.; Hikita, Y.; Chuang, Y.-D.; Hussain, Z.; Zhou, K. J.; Nag, A.; Garcia-Fernandez, M.; Rossi, M.; Huang, H. Y.; Huang, D. J.; Shen, Z. X.; Schmitt, T.; Hwang, H. Y.; Moritz, B.; Zaanen, J.; Devereaux, T. P.; Lee, W. S.

doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0585-z

Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates

Journal Article · Mon Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Nature Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0585-z· OSTI ID:1605376

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Max Planck Inst. for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland). Swiss Light Source
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Diamond Light Source, Ltd.
National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, Hsinchu (Taiwan)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES); Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Geballe Lab. for Advanced Materials
Leiden Univ. (Netherlands)

The search continues for nickel oxide-based materials with electronic properties similar to cuprate high-temperature superconductors. The recent discovery of superconductivity in the doped infinite-layer nickelate NdNiO₂ has strengthened these efforts. In this work, we use X-ray spectroscopy and density functional theory to show that the electronic structure of LaNiO₂ and NdNiO₂, while similar to the cuprates, includes significant distinctions. Unlike cuprates, the rare-earth spacer layer in the infinite-layer nickelate supports a weakly interacting three-dimensional 5d metallic state, which hybridizes with a quasi-two-dimensional, strongly correlated state with $$3d_{x^2-y^2}$$ symmetry in the NiO₂ layers. Thus, the infinite-layer nickelate can be regarded as a sibling of the rare-earth intermetallics which are well known for heavy fermion behaviour, where the NiO₂ correlated layers play an analogous role to the 4f states in rare-earth heavy fermion compounds. This Kondo- or Anderson-lattice-like ‘oxide-intermetallic’ replaces the Mott insulator as the reference state from which superconductivity emerges upon doping.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1605376

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1631643

Journal Information:: Nature Materials, Journal Name: Nature Materials Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 19; ISSN 1476-1122

Publisher:: Springer Nature - Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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