Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates
Abstract
The search continues for nickel oxide-based materials with electronic properties similar to cuprate high-temperature superconductors1-10. The recent discovery of superconductivity in the doped infinite-layer nickelate NdNiO2 (refs. 11,12) has strengthened these efforts. Here, 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 [Formula: see text] symmetry in the NiO2 layers. Thus, the infinite-layer nickelate can be regarded as a sibling of the rare-earth intermetallics13-15, 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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- 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)
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- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1605376
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1631643
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; GBMF4415; 51NF40_141828; CRSII2_160765/1; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 19; Journal Issue: 4; Related Information: A Publisher Correction to this article was published on 13 July 2020. DOI 10.1038/s41563-020-0761-1; Journal ID: ISSN 1476-1122
- Publisher:
- Springer Nature - Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Materials science; Physics
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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., and Lee, W. S. Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0585-z.
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. Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0585-z
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., and Lee, W. S. Mon .
"Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0585-z. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1605376.
@article{osti_1605376,
title = {Electronic structure of the parent compound of superconducting infinite-layer nickelates},
author = {Hepting, M. and Li, D. and Jia, C. J. and Lu, H. and Paris, E. and Tseng, Y. and Feng, X. and Osada, M. and Been, E. and Hikita, Y. and Chuang, Y.-D. and Hussain, Z. and Zhou, K. J. and Nag, A. and Garcia-Fernandez, M. and Rossi, M. and Huang, H. Y. and Huang, D. J. and Shen, Z. X. and Schmitt, T. and Hwang, H. Y. and Moritz, B. and Zaanen, J. and Devereaux, T. P. and Lee, W. S.},
abstractNote = {The search continues for nickel oxide-based materials with electronic properties similar to cuprate high-temperature superconductors1-10. The recent discovery of superconductivity in the doped infinite-layer nickelate NdNiO2 (refs. 11,12) has strengthened these efforts. Here, 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 [Formula: see text] symmetry in the NiO2 layers. Thus, the infinite-layer nickelate can be regarded as a sibling of the rare-earth intermetallics13-15, 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.},
doi = {10.1038/s41563-019-0585-z},
journal = {Nature Materials},
number = 4,
volume = 19,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {1}
}
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