Ternary nickel hydrides: a new platform for unconventional superconductivity and quantum magnetism
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| author | Domanski, Mateusz Santacesaria, Antonio Barone, Paolo Lorenzana, Jose Grochala, Wojciech |
| author_facet | Domanski, Mateusz Santacesaria, Antonio Barone, Paolo Lorenzana, Jose Grochala, Wojciech |
| contents | In this letter, we propose ternary nickel hydrides MNiH2 (M = Li, Na) as new materials that mimic cuprate physics but have important differences and interesting properties. Ni-H bands are wider than in oxides due to shorter bond lengths and covalency is larger than in Ni oxides which leads to a large scale of magnetic interactions. The charge transfer energy is smaller than in LaNiO2 which in cuprates translates to a larger Tc. We notice the formation of the electride band close to the Fermi surface which appears due to H vacancy along the c lattice vector. The considerable difference with cuprates arises from dz2 orbitals hybridization with interstitial orbitals allowing charge transfer to an apical vacancy state and self-doping the cuprate like Ni dx2-y2 H s antibonding bands which suggests that stoichiometric NaNiH2 may already be metallic and superconducting. |
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| spellingShingle | Ternary nickel hydrides: a new platform for unconventional superconductivity and quantum magnetism Domanski, Mateusz Santacesaria, Antonio Barone, Paolo Lorenzana, Jose Grochala, Wojciech Strongly Correlated Electrons In this letter, we propose ternary nickel hydrides MNiH2 (M = Li, Na) as new materials that mimic cuprate physics but have important differences and interesting properties. Ni-H bands are wider than in oxides due to shorter bond lengths and covalency is larger than in Ni oxides which leads to a large scale of magnetic interactions. The charge transfer energy is smaller than in LaNiO2 which in cuprates translates to a larger Tc. We notice the formation of the electride band close to the Fermi surface which appears due to H vacancy along the c lattice vector. The considerable difference with cuprates arises from dz2 orbitals hybridization with interstitial orbitals allowing charge transfer to an apical vacancy state and self-doping the cuprate like Ni dx2-y2 H s antibonding bands which suggests that stoichiometric NaNiH2 may already be metallic and superconducting. |
| title | Ternary nickel hydrides: a new platform for unconventional superconductivity and quantum magnetism |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06695 |