CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 164Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsElectronic and Structural Properties of OxidesPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Antiferromagnetic Correlations in the Metallic Strongly Correlated Transition Metal Oxide LaNiO3

Open access
Guo, H., Li, Z. W., Zhao, L., Hu, Z., Chang, C. F., Kuo, C.-Y., Schmidt, W., Piovano, A. +5 more·2018·Nature Communications
DOI 10.1038/s41467-017-02524-xPMC PMC5752676
Open this paper in CoChat — free accountOpen PDF

Abstract

The material class of rare earth nickelates with high Ni 3+ oxidation state is generating continued interest due to the occurrence of a metal-insulator transition with charge order and the appearance of non-collinear magnetic phases within this insulating regime. The recent theoretical prediction for superconductivity in LaNiO 3 thin films has also triggered intensive research efforts. LaNiO 3 seems to be the only rare earth nickelate that stays metallic and paramagnetic down to lowest temperatures. So far, centimeter-sized impurity-free single crystal growth has not been reported for the rare earth nickelates material class since elevated oxygen pressures are required for their synthesis. Here, we report on the successful growth of centimeter-sized LaNiO 3 single crystals by the floating zone technique at oxygen pressures of up to 150 bar. Our crystals are essentially free from Ni 2+ impurities and exhibit metallic properties together with an unexpected but clear antiferromagnetic transition.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/s41467-017-02524-x

Cites

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The reported resistivity at room temperature is ρ ≈ 90 μOhm·cm for single crystal bulk LNO.

    “The reported values of resistivity at room temperature are ρ ≈ 90 µOhm·cm for single crystal bulk LNO [88] and ρ = 380 µOhm·cm for powder bulk samples [89].”

    From Control of Columnar Grain Microstructure in CSD LaNiO3 Films (2023) · cites this paper as [88]

    The Results section (‘Temperature dependence of physical properties’; page unavailable) reports resistivity measurements on a LaNiO3 single crystal and describes values in the μΩ·cm range. It gives ~6 μΩ·cm at low temperatures, but our copy does not state the claimed ~90 μΩ·cm value at room temperature; Fig. 2b is referenced without numerical room-temperature data in the text. (LLM, conf=0.83)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

No references could be resolved yet.

Research works printed but not linked: 32

  1. [1]Torrance JB Lacorre P Nazzal AI Ansaldo EJ Niedermayer C Systematic study of insulator-metal transitions in perovskites RNiO3 (R=Pr,Nd,Sm,Eu) due to closing of charge-transfer gap Phys. Rev. B 1992 45 8209 8212 10.1103/PhysRevB.45.8209 10000651 · DOI
  2. [2]Medarde ML Structural, magnetic and electronic properties of RNiO3 perovskites (R=rare earth) J. Phys. Condens. Matter 1997 9 1679 1707 10.1088/0953-8984/9/8/003 · DOI
  3. [3]Giovannetti G Kumar S Khomskii D Picozzi S van den Brink J Multiferroicity in rare-earth nickelates RNiO3 Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009 103 156401 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.156401 19905654 · DOI
  4. [4]Mizokawa T Fujimori A Unrestricted Hartree-Fock study of transition-metal oxides: spin and orbital ordering in perovskite-type lattice Phys. Rev. B 1995 51 12880 12883 10.1103/PhysRevB.51.12880 9978079 · DOI
  5. [5]Mizokawa T Khomskii DI Sawatzky GA Spin and charge ordering in self-doped Mott insulators Phys. Rev. B 2000 61 11263 11266 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.11263 · DOI
  6. [6]Mazin II Charge ordering as alternative to Jahn-Teller distortion Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007 98 176406 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.176406 · DOI
  7. [7]Lee SB Chen R Balents L Landau theory of charge and spin ordering in the nickelates Phys. Rev. Lett. 2011 106 016405 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.016405 21231760 · DOI
  8. [8]Park H Millis AJ Marianetti CA Site-selective Mott transition in rare-earth-element nickelates Phys. Rev. Lett. 2012 109 156402 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.156402 23102343 · DOI
  9. [9]Johnston S Mukherjee A Elfimov I Berciu M Sawatzky GA Charge disproportionation without charge transfer in the rare-earth-element nickelates as a possible mechanism for the metal-insulator transition Phys. Rev. Lett. 2014 112 106404 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.106404 24679313 · DOI
  10. [10]Jaramillo R Ha SD Silevitch DM Ramanathan S Origins of bad-metal conductivity and the insulator metal transition in the rare-earth nickelates Nat. Phys. 2014 10 304 307 10.1038/nphys2907 · DOI
  11. [11]Subedi A Peil OE Georges A Low-energy description of the metal-insulator transition in the rare-earth nickelates Phys. Rev. B 2015 91 075128 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.075128 · DOI
  12. [12]Green RJ Haverkort MW Sawatzky GA Bond disproportionation and dynamical charge fluctuations in the perovskite rare-earth nickelates Phys. Rev. B 2016 94 195127 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.195127 · DOI
  13. [13]Chaloupka J Khaliullin G Orbital order and possible superconductivity in LaNiO3/LaMO3 superlattices Phys. Rev. Lett. 2008 100 016404 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.016404 18232795 · DOI
  14. [14]Scherwitzl R Metal-insulator transition in ultrathin LaNiO3 films Phys. Rev. Lett. 2011 106 246403 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.246403 21770584 · DOI
  15. [15]Middey S Physics of ultrathin films and heterostructures of rare-earth nickelates Ann. Rev. Mater. Res. 2016 46 305 334 10.1146/annurev-matsci-070115-032057 · DOI
  16. [16]Xu XQ Peng JL Li ZY Ju HL Greene RL Resisitivity, thermopower, and susceptibility of RNiO3 (R=La,Pr) Phys. Rev. B 1992 48 1112 1118 10.1103/PhysRevB.48.1112 10007970 · DOI
  17. [17]Zhou JS Marshall LG Goodenough JB Mass enhancement versus stoner enhancement in strongly correlated metallic perovskites: LaNiO3 and LaCuO3 Phys. Rev. B 2014 89 245138 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.245138 · DOI
  18. [18]Hu Z Hole distribution between the Ni3d and O2p orbitals in Nd2−xSrxNiO4−δ Phys. Rev. B 2000 61 3739 3744 10.1103/PhysRevB.61.3739 · DOI
  19. [19]Hu Z On the electronic structure of Cu(III) and Ni(III) in La2Li1/2Cu1/2O4, Nd2Li1/2Ni1/2O4, and Cs2KCuF6 Chem. Phys. 1998 232 63 74 10.1016/S0301-0104(98)00096-2 · DOI
  20. [20]Zhang J Zheng H Ren Y Mitchell JF High-pressure floating-zone growth of perovskite nickelate LaNiO3 single crystals Cryst. Growth Des. 2017 17 2730 2735 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00205 · DOI
  21. [21]Zhou JS Goodenough JB Dabrowski B Pressure-induced non-fermi-liquid behavior of PrNiO3 Phys. Rev. Lett. 2005 94 226602 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.226602 16090422 · DOI
  22. [22]Sánchez RD Metal-insulator transition in oxygen-deficient LaNiO3−x perovskites Phys. Rev. B 1996 54 16574 16578 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.16574 9985780 · DOI
  23. [23]Gayathri N Raychaudhuri AK Xu XQ Peng JL Greene RL Electronic conduction in LaNiO3−δ: the dependence on the oxygen stoichiometry J. Phys. Condens. Matter 1998 10 1323 1338 10.1088/0953-8984/10/6/015 · DOI · Paper page
  24. [24]Garca-Muñoz JL Rodrguez-Carvajal J Lacorre P Neutron-diffraction study of the magnetic ordering in the insulating regime of the perovskites RNiO3 (R=Pr and Nd) Phys. Rev. B 1993 50 978 992 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.978 9975764 · DOI
  25. [25]Argyriou DN Lattice effects and magnetic structure in the layered colossal magnetoresistance manganite La2−2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (x=0.3) Phys. Rev. B 1999 59 8695 8702 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.8695 · DOI
  26. [26]Yoshida Y Crystal and magnetic structure of Ca3Ru2O7 Phys. Rev. B 2005 72 054412 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.054412 · DOI
  27. [27]Komarek AC CaCrO3: an anomalous antiferromagnetic metallic oxide Phys. Rev. Lett. 2008 101 167204 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.167204 18999709 · DOI
  28. [28]Berlijn T Itinerant antiferromagnetism in RuO2 Phys. Rev. Lett. 2017 118 077201 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.077201 28256891 · DOI
  29. [29]Khomskii, D. I. Transition Metal Compounds (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
  30. [30]Li B Insulating pockets in metallic LaNiO3 Adv. Electron. Mater. 2016 2 1500261 10.1002/aelm.201500261 · DOI
  31. [31]Subedi, A. Breathing distortions in the metallic, antiferromagnetic phase of LaNiO3. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08899 (2017). · arXiv
  32. [32]Zhou JS Goodenough JB Dabrowksi B Transition from Curie-Weiss to enhanced Pauli paramagnetism in RNiO3 (R=La, Pr,… Gd) Phys. Rev. B 2003 67 020404 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.020404 · DOI

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Guo, H., Li, Z. W., Zhao, L., Hu, Z., Chang, C. F., Kuo, C.-Y., Schmidt, W., Piovano, A., Pi, T. W., Sobolev, O., Khomskii, D. I., Tjeng, L. H., & Komarek, A. C.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (DE)
  • Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE)
  • Institut Laue-Langevin (FR)
  • National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (TW)
  • University of Göttingen (DE)
  • University of Cologne (DE)
Corresponding author
Komarek, A. C.
ORCID
Venue
Nature Communications
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2018-01-03
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
43-43
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1038/s41467-017-02524-x
PMC
PMC5752676
OpenAlex
W2775950980
Cited by
164
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 14
FWCI
5.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Kölner Universitäts PublikationsServer (Universität zu Köln) (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • iMPULSE (Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Condensed Matter Physics › Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Keywords
LaNiO3, antiferromagnetic transition, rare-earth nickelates, single crystal growth, floating zone crystal growth, high oxygen pressure, charge ordering, metal-insulator transition

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review