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Di Cataldo S, Worm P, Tomczak JM, Si L, Held K. Unconventional superconductivity without doping in infinite-layer nickelates under pressure. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3952. [PMID: 38729955 PMCID: PMC11087552 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48169-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2023] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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High-temperature unconventional superconductivity quite generically emerges from doping a strongly correlated parent compound, often (close to) an antiferromagnetic insulator. The recently developed dynamical vertex approximation is a state-of-the-art technique that has quantitatively predicted the superconducting dome of nickelates. Here, we apply it to study the effect of pressure in the infinite-layer nickelate SrxPr1-xNiO2. We reproduce the increase of the critical temperature (Tc) under pressure found in experiment up to 12 GPa. According to our results, Tc can be further increased with higher pressures. Even without Sr-doping the parent compound, PrNiO2, will become a high-temperature superconductor thanks to a strongly enhanced self-doping of the Nid x 2 - y 2 orbital under pressure. With a maximal Tc of 100 K around 100 GPa, nickelate superconductors can reach that of the best cuprates.
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- Simone Di Cataldo
- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien, 1040, Wien, Austria.
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien, 1040, Wien, Austria
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien, 1040, Wien, Austria
- King's College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
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- School of Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an, 710127, China
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- Institut für Festkörperphysik, Technische Universität Wien, 1040, Wien, Austria
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Kitatani M, Si L, Worm P, Tomczak JM, Arita R, Held K. Optimizing Superconductivity: From Cuprates via Nickelates to Palladates. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:166002. [PMID: 37154662 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.166002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Motivated by cuprate and nickelate superconductors, we perform a comprehensive study of the superconducting instability in the single-band Hubbard model. We calculate the spectrum and superconducting transition temperature T_{c} as a function of filling and Coulomb interaction for a range of hopping parameters, using the dynamical vertex approximation. We find the sweet spot for high T_{c} to be at intermediate coupling, moderate Fermi surface warping, and low hole doping. Combining these results with first principles calculations, neither nickelates nor cuprates are close to this optimum within the single-band description. Instead, we identify some palladates, notably RbSr_{2}PdO_{3} and A_{2}^{'}PdO_{2}Cl_{2} (A^{'}=Ba_{0.5}La_{0.5}), to be virtually optimal, while others, such as NdPdO_{2}, are too weakly correlated.
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- Motoharu Kitatani
- Department of Material Science, University of Hyogo, Ako, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Sciences (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- School of Physics, Northwest University, Xi'an 710127, China
- Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria
- Department of Physics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Sciences (CEMS), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan
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- Institute of Solid State Physics, TU Wien, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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Mechanism of superconductivity in the Hubbard model at intermediate interaction strength. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2205048119. [PMID: 35947620 PMCID: PMC9388079 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2205048119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We study the fluctuations responsible for pairing in the d-wave superconducting state of the two-dimensional Hubbard model at intermediate coupling within a cluster dynamical mean-field theory with a numerically exact quantum impurity solver. By analyzing how momentum- and frequency-dependent fluctuations generate the d-wave superconducting state in different representations, we identify antiferromagnetic fluctuations as the pairing glue of superconductivity in both the underdoped and the overdoped regime. Nevertheless, in the intermediate coupling regime, the predominant magnetic fluctuations may differ significantly from those described by conventional spin fluctuation theory.
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Yang S, Ying T, Li W, Yang J, Sun X, Li X. Quantum Monte Carlo study of the Hubbard model with next-nearest-neighbor hopping t': pairing and magnetism. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 33:115601. [PMID: 33316793 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/abd33a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Using the finite-temperature determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) algorithm, we study the pairing symmetries of the Hubbard Hamiltonian with next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) hopping t' on square lattices. By varying the value of t', we find that the d-wave pairing is suppressed by the onset of t', while the p + ip-wave pairing tends to emerge for low electron density and t' around -0.7. Together with the calculation of the anti-ferromagnetic and ferromagnetic spin correlation function, we explore the relationship between anti-ferromagnetic order and the d-wave pairing symmetry, and the relationship between ferromagnetic order and the p + ip-wave pairing symmetry. Our results may be useful for the exploration of the mechanism of the electron pairing symmetries, and for the realization of the exotic p + ip-wave superconductivity.
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- Shuhui Yang
- School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People's Republic of China
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Ayral T, Vučičević J, Parcollet O. Fierz Convergence Criterion: A Controlled Approach to Strongly Interacting Systems with Small Embedded Clusters. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:166401. [PMID: 29099214 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.166401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We present an embedded-cluster method, based on the triply irreducible local expansion formalism. It turns the Fierz ambiguity, inherent to approaches based on a bosonic decoupling of local fermionic interactions, into a convergence criterion. It is based on the approximation of the three-leg vertex by a coarse-grained vertex computed from a self-consistently determined cluster impurity model. The computed self-energies are, by construction, continuous functions of momentum. We show that, in three interaction and doping regimes of the two-dimensional Hubbard model, self-energies obtained with clusters of size four only are very close to numerically exact benchmark results. We show that the Fierz parameter, which parametrizes the freedom in the Hubbard-Stratonovich decoupling, can be used as a quality control parameter. By contrast, the GW+extended dynamical mean field theory approximation with four cluster sites is shown to yield good results only in the weak-coupling regime and for a particular decoupling. Finally, we show that the vertex has spatially nonlocal components only at low Matsubara frequencies.
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- Thomas Ayral
- Physics and Astronomy Department, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
- Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), CEA, CNRS, UMR 3681, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), CEA, CNRS, UMR 3681, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Scientific Computing Laboratory, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT), CEA, CNRS, UMR 3681, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Chen X, LeBlanc JPF, Gull E. Simulation of the NMR response in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14986. [PMID: 28387251 PMCID: PMC5385573 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The pseudogap in the cuprate high-temperature superconductors was discovered as a suppression of the Knight shift and spin relaxation time measured in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments. However, theoretical understanding of this suppression in terms of the magnetic susceptiblility of correlated itinerant fermion systems was so far lacking. Here we study the temperature and doping evolution of these quantities on the two-dimensional Hubbard model using cluster dynamical mean field theory. We recover the suppression of the Knight shift and the linear-in-T spin echo decay that increases with doping. The relaxation rate shows a marked increase as T is lowered but no indication of a pseudogap on the Cu site, and a clear downturn on the O site, consistent with experimental results on single layer materials but different from double layer materials. The consistency of these results with experiment suggests that the pseudogap is well described by strong short-range correlation effects.
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- Xi Chen
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.,Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, The Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, A1B 3X9
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
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