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Density waves in low-pressure bilayer nickelates

Lauro B. Braz, Steffen Bötzel, Frank Lechermann, Igor Plokhikh, Rustem Khasanov, Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva, and Ilya M. Eremin

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 18 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/2rms-xtlm

Abstract

The low-pressure phase diagram of La3Ni2O7 provides an important reference for understanding its pressure-induced high-temperature superconductivity. While the spin-density-wave transition at TSDW≈150 K is increasingly well established, the origin of the second density-wave transition at TDW≈130 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 𝐐Y=(0,π) and at 𝐐X=(π,0) is lifted and the electronic system develops a double-stripe spin-density wave with ordering vector 𝐐Y=(0,π). We identify that the pure double stripe spin state is unstable in La3Ni2O7 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 La3Ni2O7. 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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