Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure

Hualei Sun, Mengwu Huo, Xunwu Hu, Jingyuan Li, Zengjia Liu, Yifeng Han, Lingyun Tang, Zhongquan Mao, Pengtao Yang, Bosen Wang, Jinguang Cheng, Dao-Xin Yao, Guang-Ming Zhang () and Meng Wang ()
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Hualei Sun: Sun Yat-Sen University
Mengwu Huo: Sun Yat-Sen University
Xunwu Hu: Sun Yat-Sen University
Jingyuan Li: Sun Yat-Sen University
Zengjia Liu: Sun Yat-Sen University
Yifeng Han: Arizona State University
Lingyun Tang: South China University of Technology
Zhongquan Mao: South China University of Technology
Pengtao Yang: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bosen Wang: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jinguang Cheng: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dao-Xin Yao: Sun Yat-Sen University
Guang-Ming Zhang: Tsinghua University
Meng Wang: Sun Yat-Sen University

Nature, 2023, vol. 621, issue 7979, 493-498

Abstract: Abstract Although high-transition-temperature (high-Tc) superconductivity in cuprates has been known for more than three decades, the underlying mechanism remains unknown1–4. Cuprates are the only unconventional superconductors that exhibit bulk superconductivity with Tc above the liquid-nitrogen boiling temperature of 77 K. Here we observe that high-pressure resistance and mutual inductive magnetic susceptibility measurements showed signatures of superconductivity in single crystals of La3Ni2O7 with maximum Tc of 80 K at pressures between 14.0 GPa and 43.5 GPa. The superconducting phase under high pressure has an orthorhombic structure of Fmmm space group with the $$3{d}_{{x}^{2}-{y}^{2}}$$ 3 d x 2 − y 2 and $$3{d}_{{z}^{2}}$$ 3 d z 2 orbitals of Ni cations strongly mixing with oxygen 2p orbitals. Our density functional theory calculations indicate that the superconductivity emerges coincidently with the metallization of the σ-bonding bands under the Fermi level, consisting of the $$3{d}_{{z}^{2}}$$ 3 d z 2 orbitals with the apical oxygen ions connecting the Ni–O bilayers. Thus, our discoveries provide not only important clues for the high-Tc superconductivity in this Ruddlesden–Popper double-layered perovskite nickelates but also a previously unknown family of compounds to investigate the high-Tc superconductivity mechanism.

Date: 2023
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