Observation of an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point in high-purity LaNiO3

LaNiO3 is a strange metal, for reasons that are not well understood. Here, Liu et al. report evidence for scattering of charge carriers by antiferromagnetic quantum fluctuations in high-purity epitaxial thin films of LaNiO3, suggesting it is close to an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Changjiang Liu, Vincent F. C. Humbert, Terence M. Bretz-Sullivan, Gensheng Wang, Deshun Hong, Friederike Wrobel, Jianjie Zhang, Jason D. Hoffman, John E. Pearson, J. Samuel Jiang, Clarence Chang, Alexey Suslov, Nadya Mason, M. R. Norman, Anand Bhattacharya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15143-w