• Corpus ID: 247292638

Character of the"normal state"of the nickelate superconductors

@inproceedings{Lee2022CharacterOT,
  title={Character of the"normal state"of the nickelate superconductors},
  author={Kyuho Lee and Bai Yang Wang and Motoki Osada and Berit H. Goodge and Tiffany C. Wang and Yonghun Lee and Shannon P. Harvey and Woo Jin Kim and Y. Yu and Chaitanya Murthy and Srinivas Raghu and Lena F. Kourkoutis and Harold Y. Hwang},
  year={2022}
}

• Kyuho Lee, Bai Yang Wang, +10 authors H. Hwang
• Published 4 March 2022
• Physics

The occurrence of superconductivity in proximity to various strongly correlated phases of matter has drawn extensive focus on their normal state properties, to develop an understanding of the state from which superconductivity emerges. The recent finding of superconductivity in layered nickelates raises similar interests. However, transport measurements of doped infinite-layer nickelate thin films have been hampered by materials limitations of these metastable compounds – in particular, a relatively high density of extended defects. Here, by moving to a substrate (LaAlO3)0.3(Sr2TaAlO6)0.7 which better stabilizes the growth and reduction conditions, we can synthesize the doping series of Nd1–xSrxNiO2 essentially free from extended defects. This enables the first examination of the ‘intrinsic’ temperature and doping dependent evolution of the transport properties. The normal state resistivity exhibits a low-temperature upturn in the underdoped regime, linear behavior near optimal doping, and quadratic temperature dependence for overdoping. This is strikingly similar to the copper oxides, despite key distinctions – namely the absence of an insulating parent compound, multiband electronic structure, and a Mott-Hubbard orbital alignment rather than the charge-transfer insulator of the copper oxides. These results suggest an underlying universality in the emergent electronic properties of both superconducting families. ________________________ [e-mail]