- Accepted Paper
Density waves in low-pressure bilayer nickelates
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 18 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/2rms-xtlm
Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 18 September, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/2rms-xtlm
The low-pressure phase diagram of LaNiO provides an important reference for understanding its pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity. While the spin-density-wave transition at K is increasingly well established, the origin of the second density-wave transition at K has remained unresolved. Here, we perform unrestricted Hartree–Fock calculations to investigate the potential origin of the second transition. Within the orthorhombic phase, the degeneracy between possible ordering wavevectors at and at is lifted and the electronic system develops a double-stripe spin-density wave with ordering vector . We identify that the pure double stripe spin state is unstable in LaNiO towards a commensurate charge-density wave instability, which favors a spin-modulated double stripe order with intertwined charge and spin instabilities and establish the hierarchy of ordered states in LaNiO. We further discuss our results in the context of available experimental literature and propose further experimental tests to elucidate the origin of the SDW/DW states in this system.
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