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Correlation Effects and Concomitant Two-Orbital -Wave Superconductivity in LaNiO under High Pressure

arXiv:2308.09698 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.109.165154

Abstract

Possible high- superconductivity (SC) has been found experimentally in the bilayer material LaNiO under high pressure recently, in which the Ni- and orbitals are expected to play a key role in the electronic structure and the SC. Here we study the two-orbital electron correlations and the nature of the SC using the bilayer two-orbital Hubbard model downfolded from the band structure of La3Ni2O7 in the framework of the dynamical mean-field theory. We find that each of the two orbitals forms -wave SC pairing. Because of the nonlocal inter-orbital hoppings, the two-orbital SCs are concomitant and they transition to Mott insulating states simultaneously when tuning the system to half filling. The Hund's coupling induced local inter-orbital spin coupling enhances the electron correlations pronouncedly and is crucial to the SC.

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