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Hund's metal physics: from SrNiO to NdNiO

arXiv:2006.15305 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.102.161118

Abstract

We study the normal state electronic structure of the recently discovered infinite-layer nickelate superconductor, NdSrNiO. Using SrNiO as a reference, we find that NdSrNiO is a multi-orbital electronic system with characteristic Hund's metal behaviors, such as metallicity, the importance of high-spin configurations, tendency towards orbital differentiation, and the absence of magnetism in regimes which are ordered according to static mean-field theories. In addition, our DFT+DMFT calculations with exact double counting scheme show that despite large charge carrier doping from SrNiO to LaNiO, the Ni- total occupancy is barely changed due to the decreased hybridization with the occupied oxygen-2 states, and increased hybridization with the unoccupied La-5 states. Our results are in good agreement with the existing resonant inelastic x-ray scattering measurements and pave the way to understand the pairing mechanism of NdSrNiO.

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