Join us for the Physics Condensed Matter Seminar at 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Title: Superconductivity in nickelate heterostructures
Nickel and copper are nominally very similar in chemistry so the search for superconductivity in nickelates is a story almost as old as the quest to understand the high temperature superconductivity of the cuprates. A central feature of these efforts was to find a nickelate with a similar electronic structure to that of the cuprates and a significant part of this approach utilized thin filmsand heterostructures.
In this seminar I will describe some of the most important advances made in the search for superconductivity in nickelates.
First, I will discuss the efforts made in the context of perovskite nickelate heterostructures and then I will introduce the recent discovery of superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelates[1] and the ever-growingfamily of nickelate superconductors.
Finally, I will come back to the comparison between nickelates and cuprates by examining what we have learned so far on the physics of the nickelates. In particular I will focus on results from x-ray scattering [2] and muon spin rotation [3] that suggest acoexistence of superconductivity and magnetism thatmay be as a result oftheproposed multi-orbital natureof the nickelates.
[1] D. Li et al, Nature572(2019) 624
[2] H. Luet al,Science373(2021)213
[3] J. Fowlie et al, Nature Physics (in press) (2022)arXiv: 2201.11943
Join Zoom Meeting if not unable to attend in person:
https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/91441096077
Location: 3 Physics North
Speaker: Jennifer Fowlie
Affiliation: Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University