The interplay between charge transfer and electronic disorder in transition-metal dichalcogenide multilayers gives rise to superconductive coupling driven by proximity enhancement, tunneling and superconducting fluctuations, of a yet unwieldy variety. Artificial spacer layers introduced with atomic precision change the density of states by charge transfer. Here, we tune the superconductive coupling between
The status of nickelate superconductors in relation to cuprate high temperature superconductors is one of the concepts being discussed in high temperature superconductivity in correlated transition metal oxides. New additions to the class of infinite layer nickelates can provide essential input relating to connections or distinctions. A recently synthesized compound Ba2NiO2(AgSe)2, which contains isolated ‘infinite layer’ NiO2planes, may lead to new insights. Our investigations have discovered that, at density functional theory mean field level, the ground state consists of an unusual
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10364787
- Publisher / Repository:
- IOP Publishing
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Physics: Materials
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 2515-7639
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- Article No. 024008
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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