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Bilayer -- Model and Magnetically Mediated Pairing in the Pressurized Nickelate LaNiO

arXiv:2307.16873 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.036502

Abstract

The recently discovered nickelate superconductor LaNiO has a high transition temperature near 80 K under pressure, which offers additional avenues of unconventional superconductivity. Here with state-of-the-art tensor-network methods, we study a bilayer -- model for LaNiO and find a robust -wave superconductive (SC) order mediated by interlayer magnetic couplings. Large-scale density matrix renormalization group calculations find algebraic pairing correlations with Luttinger parameter of . Infinite projected entangled-pair state method obtains a nonzero SC order directly in the thermodynamic limit, and estimates a strong pairing strength . Tangent-space tensor renormalization group simulations further determine a high SC temperature and clarify the temperature evolution of SC order. Because of the intriguing orbital selective behaviors and strong Hund's rule coupling in the compound, -- model has strong interlayer spin exchange (while negligible interlayer hopping), which greatly enhances the SC pairing in the bilayer system. Such a magnetically mediated strong pairing has also been observed recently in the optical lattice of ultracold atoms. Our accurate and comprehensive tensor-network calculations reveal robust SC order in the bilayer -- model and shed light on the high- superconductivity in the pressurized nickelate LaNiO.

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