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Role of topotactic hydrogen in Superconductivity of Infinite-layer Nickelate NdNiO$_{2}$: A first-principles and variational Monte Carlo study

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Pith's one-line read Hydrogen in NdNiO2 acts as a selective enhancer of the interstitial-orbital superconducting dome, not as a prerequisite for superconductivity.

desk verdict A solid DFT+VMC study of hydrogen in NdNiO2 whose central claim—that H selectively strengthens the interstitial-orbital dome—is physically plausible but rests on an imposed pairing symmetry that the paper never tests. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.13399 v1 pith:3EXT55XJ submitted 2025-06-16 cond-mat.supr-con cond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.str-el

Manoj Gupta , Arun Kumar Maurya , Amal Medhi , Tanusri Saha Dasgupta This is my paper · ORCID
classification cond-mat.supr-concond-mat.mtrl-scicond-mat.str-el PACS 74.20.-z74.70.-b71.15.Mb71.10.Fd
keywords infinite-layernickelatesNdNiO2topotactichydrogentwo-bandHubbardmodelinterstitialorbitalvariationalMonteCarloorbital-selectivesuperconductivitysuperconductingdome
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The paper tries to settle whether topotactic hydrogen, unintentionally inserted during the synthesis of infinite-layer nickelate superconductors, is a necessary ingredient for superconductivity or just an accidental dopant. Using density functional theory, Wannier downfolding, and variational Monte Carlo on a two-band Hubbard model, it argues that hydrogen at the apical oxygen vacancy mainly reshapes the interstitial (IS) orbital at the Ni site it binds to, leaving the Ni d_x2-y2 orbital essentially intact. The resulting Fermi-surface change is confined to the kz=pi plane, where the IS electron pocket nearly disappears. In the superconducting order parameters, the paper finds two overlapping domes, one s-wave IS-derived at lower hole doping and one d-wave d_x2-y2-derived at higher doping; hydrogenation strengthens the IS dome while barely changing the d_x2-y2 dome. That supports the view that hydrogen is not essential for superconductivity, but it does select which orbital pairing channel benefits from it.

What carries the argument

The central object is the two-band Hubbard model in a Wannier basis of Ni d_x2-y2 and an effective interstitial (IS) orbital per Ni site, with the IS orbital itself renormalized by hydrogen for the Ni site bound to hydrogen. The mechanism that carries the argument is the set of DFT-derived hopping parameters: hydrogenation substantially increases the first-neighbor IS-IS hopping at that Ni site while suppressing d_x2-y2-IS hopping, which in the variational Monte Carlo state translates into a stronger s-wave pairing scale J_s ~ $t_s^{2}$/U_s for the IS dome and a slightly weaker d-wave J_d. A second key ingredient is the pairing ansatz fixing s-wave symmetry on the IS orbital and d-wave symmetry on d_x2-y2, motivated by prior two-gap nickelate studies and by scanning tunneling microscopy and Hall data.

What would settle it

If a high-resolution measurement of the kz=pi Fermi surface showed the IS-derived electron pocket still present in hydrogenated NdNiO2, the paper's electronic-structure mechanism would fail; alternatively, a VMC calculation allowing d-wave pairing on the IS orbital that reproduces the same low-doping enhancement would show the conclusion depends on the fixed pairing ansatz rather than on hydrogen itself.

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Core claim

The central claim is that hydrogen sits at the apical oxygen vacancy in a negative charge state, forms a Ni-H-Ni chain, and acts as a selective enhancer of the interstitial-orbital superconductivity rather than as a prerequisite for superconductivity. Concretely, hydrogen changes only the local IS Wannier function at the Ni site bound to hydrogen, making it more localized in-plane and strongly bonded out-of-plane to H, while the d_x2-y2 Wannier function is essentially unchanged. This depletes the IS electron pocket at kz=pi but leaves the kz=0 Fermi surface intact, so the minimal two-band description survives hydrogenation. In the variational Monte Carlo solution of the DFT-derived two-band Hubbard model, superconductivity appears as two overlapping domes as a function of hole doping: an extended-s-wave dome from the IS orbital at lower hole doping and a d-wave dome from d_x2-y2 at higher doping. Hydrogenation raises the IS dome appreciably and suppresses the d_x2-y2 dome only marginally, a consequence the paper attributes to a hydrogen-induced increase in the nearest-neighbor IS-IS hopping (hence superexchange J_s) and a slight reduction in d_x2-y2 hopping.

Load-bearing premise

The computed selective enhancement of the IS superconducting dome rests on the assumption that the hydrogenated low-energy physics is faithfully captured by a two-orbital (d_x2-y2 and IS) Hubbard model with pairing symmetries fixed to s-wave on IS and d-wave on d_x2-y2; if additional orbitals or alternative pairing channels matter, the hydrogen-induced IS-dome enhancement could be an artifact of that truncation.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If correct, hydrogenated samples in the 0.22-0.28 hydrogen window should show a raised low-doping (IS, s-wave) superconducting dome compared with hydrogen-free samples, with little change at higher doping.
  • The two-band model remains a valid minimal description even with hydrogen present, so future many-body studies of hydrogenated nickelates can keep the same d_x2-y2/IS basis.
  • The near-disappearance of the kz=pi IS electron pocket gives a specific electronic-structure signature of hydrogenation that angle-resolved photoemission or quantum-oscillation experiments could look for.
  • The results side with experimental reports that hydrogen incorporation is not necessary for superconductivity, while identifying a specific orbital channel through which hydrogen can nevertheless strengthen pairing.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because the enhancement traces to a single hopping integral (nearest-neighbor IS-IS), a testable extension would be to tune the hydrogen concentration and check whether the IS-dome height scales monotonically with that hopping, or to find other interstitial dopants that mimic hydrogen's Wannier reshaping.
  • The double-dome structure persists in both compounds, suggesting the two-dome phenomenology is intrinsic to the two-orbital physics rather than to hydrogen; if so, strain or capping layers that alter only the IS orbital could selectively control the low-doping dome.
  • The VMC result is obtained with a fixed pairing ansatz; if the IS pairing symmetry is allowed to vary and the hydrogen-induced enhancement disappears, the 'selective enhancer' conclusion would need to be reattributed to the ansatz rather than to the material physics.
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Summary. The manuscript combines DFT, Wannier downfolding, and variational Monte Carlo (VMC) to address whether topotactic hydrogen affects superconductivity in infinite-layer nickelate NdNiO2. DFT in a 2x2x2 supercell with H at apical oxygen vacancy sites shows that hydrogen strongly modifies the interstitial (IS) Wannier function for the Ni bonded to H, suppresses the IS electron pocket at kz=pi, and leaves the two-band low-energy picture intact. The authors then solve a two-orbital Hubbard model (d_x2-y2 and IS) with interaction parameters U_d=3 eV, U_s/U_d=0.5, U_sd/U_d=0.2, and with pairing restricted to intra-orbital nearest-neighbor terms: extended s-wave for IS and d-wave for d_x2-y2. VMC yields two overlapping superconducting domes as a function of electron filling; hydrogenation increases the IS s-wave order parameter and slightly decreases the d_x2-y2 order parameter. The paper concludes that hydrogen, if present, selectively strengthens IS-derived superconductivity and is not a prerequisite for superconductivity.

Significance. If the central result holds, it offers a concrete microscopic mechanism for the conflicting experimental reports on hydrogen in nickelates: hydrogen can strengthen the interstitial-channel pairing while leaving the Ni-d_x2-y2 channel essentially unchanged. The DFT part is careful, and the Wannier-function analysis (Figs. 3-5) gives clear, quantitative evidence of the hydrogen-induced renormalization of the IS orbital. The VMC calculation is large-scale, and the two-dome structure in the order parameter is an interesting zero-temperature prediction. The main significance is conditional: the orbital-selective conclusion is not yet tested against alternative pairing symmetries in the IS channel, and the Hubbard parameters are chosen inputs rather than computed values. Nonetheless, the paper is a useful and falsifiable step: it predicts that hydrogen selectively enhances the IS-derived dome while leaving the d_x2-y2-derived dome nearly unchanged.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. V, Eq. (4) and Fig. 6(a)] The central claim that hydrogenation strengthens IS-derived superconductivity is obtained with the IS pairing symmetry imposed by input: Eq. (4) fixes extended s-wave pairing for the IS orbital (equal amplitude on x, y, and z bonds) and d-wave for the d_x2-y2 orbital. The VMC wavefunction of Eq. (2) can therefore only optimize the magnitudes of the imposed gaps; it cannot determine whether the leading IS pairing symmetry in the hydrogenated compound is still extended s-wave. Because hydrogenation strongly changes the IS Wannier function and the out-of-plane IS-IS hopping (Figs. 3 and 5), the momentum structure of the pairing interaction could plausibly change, and the enhanced Phi_s in Fig. 6(a) could be an artifact of the fixed ansatz. I request a variational comparison with alternative pairing symmetries for the IS channel (e.g., d-wave, nodal s-wave, s+/-), or an independent calculation of the pairing vertex, before the orbital-selective enhancement can be accepted.
  2. [Sec. V, Eq. (1)] The Hubbard parameters U_d=3 eV, U_s/U_d=0.5, and U_sd/U_d=0.2 are chosen rather than derived from the DFT calculation, and all quantitative results in Fig. 6(a) are presented for this single parameter set. The text states that variations of U_d over 1-2 eV and of the ratios by 0.2-0.3 leave the qualitative trend unchanged, but no such data are shown. Since the relative enhancement of Phi_s versus Phi_d is the paper's main quantitative conclusion, the robustness statement needs to be substantiated, for example with a supplementary figure showing the order parameters for several parameter sets.
  3. [Sec. V, Eq. (1)] The two-band Hubbard model omits spin-exchange and pair-hopping terms, and the paper notes this is done 'for numerical ease.' In a multi-orbital Hubbard model these terms are generically not small; for nickelates, Hund's-coupling-related physics is emphasized in the literature (e.g., Refs. 66-68). Their omission could alter the relative stability of s-wave versus d-wave pairing and hence the orbital-selective response to hydrogenation. At minimum, the authors should estimate the size of the omitted terms in their Wannier basis and discuss the possible impact on the order parameters; ideally, a calculation including these terms for at least one representative doping should be provided.
  4. [Sec. V, Fig. 6(a)] The comparison between the computed two-dome structure and the experimental T_c dome (Refs. 44-47) is qualitative: Phi_alpha is a zero-temperature VMC superconducting order parameter, not a critical temperature, and the theory finds superconductivity over a much broader doping range than experiment. The paper acknowledges this discrepancy in the Summary, but the text around Fig. 6(a) should be careful to state explicitly that the 'dome' comparison is suggestive rather than a quantitative match, and that finite-temperature or superfluid-stiffness calculations would be needed to connect Phi to T_c.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract] The sentence 'show a two-hump superconductivity arising the two overlapping domes' is missing 'from' and should read 'arising from the two overlapping domes.'
  2. [Fig. 1 caption] The caption says 'square planner O coordination'; this should be 'square planar O coordination.'
  3. [Sec. VI] The word 'topotatic' should be 'topotactic' in the first sentence of the Summary and Discussion.
  4. [Fig. 6(b)] The dashed line is described as marking 'the fall of total electron density,' but the meaning is unclear; please state explicitly what the dashed line represents and why it is included.
  5. [Sec. V, Eq. (5)] The definition of Phi_alpha via the long-distance limit of the pair-pair correlation function is standard, but the notation F_alpha(r_i-r_j) is introduced without explicitly stating that the bond directions delta and delta' are fixed by the pairing symmetries in Eq. (4); clarifying this would help the reader.

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No significant circularity: the hydrogenation comparison is computed from DFT-derived hoppings with superconducting order parameters as variational outputs, not as fitted or definitional re-statements of the inputs.

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain is: DFT electronic structure -> Wannier downfolding to a two-orbital (d_x2-y2, IS) tight-binding model -> two-band Hubbard model with stated interaction parameters -> variational Monte Carlo solution with a BCS-plus-Jastrow wavefunction. The superconducting order parameters Phi_s and Phi_d in Fig. 6(a) are obtained from the long-range limit of pair-pair correlation functions, and their magnitudes are optimized variational outputs rather than quantities fitted to the experimental Tc dome or forced by the Hamiltonian parameters by construction. The pairing symmetries in Eq. (4) are imposed inputs, but they are explicitly stated and motivated by prior theory and experiment (Refs. 72-74), and the hydrogenation effect enters through the DFT-derived changes in hopping integrals and orbital character, so the conclusion is not merely a restatement of the ansatz. Self-citations to Refs. 30 and 31 motivate the two-band model and pairing symmetries, but independent theoretical work (Ref. 72) and experimental STM/Hall data provide external support, and the hydrogenated calculation is a genuinely new application of the framework. The legitimate concern that hydrogen might alter the preferred IS pairing symmetry away from extended s-wave is a robustness or correctness risk, not a circular reduction within the paper's own equations. Therefore no specific circular step can be exhibited, and the appropriate circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests primarily on the adequacy of the two-band Hubbard model, the chosen Hubbard parameters, and the imposed pairing symmetries. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (3)
  • Hubbard U_d = 3 eV
    On-site Coulomb repulsion for the Ni d_x2-y2 orbital; chosen, not computed; robustness checked only qualitatively over 1-2 eV.
  • Ratio U_s/U_d = 0.5
    On-site repulsion for the interstitial (s-like) orbital set as a fraction of U_d.
  • Ratio U_sd/U_d = 0.2
    Inter-orbital repulsion set as a fraction of U_d.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption GGA-PBE exchange-correlation gives an adequate band structure for NdNiO2 and NdNiO2H0.25.
    Standard approximation used throughout the DFT community; no beyond-DFT check for the H-bearing case.
  • domain assumption The low-energy physics is captured by two orbitals per Ni: d_x2-y2 and an interstitial (IS) orbital; this two-band downfolding remains valid after hydrogenation.
    Invoked in Section IV.B when retaining two degrees of freedom; supported by prior work for the undoped case but assumed for the hydrogenated case.
  • ad hoc to paper The Hubbard model with only intra- and inter-orbital density-density interactions (no spin-exchange or pair-hopping) is sufficient.
    Stated in Section V as 'for numerical ease'; the omitted terms are known to affect multi-orbital superconductivity.
  • domain assumption The BCS-Jastrow variational wavefunction with fixed particle number describes the ground state.
    Standard VMC ansatz, but variational; the true ground state could differ.
  • ad hoc to paper Pairing is restricted to nearest-neighbour intra-orbital, with s-wave for IS and d-wave for d_x2-y2.
    Eq. (4) locks the pairing channels; motivated by prior theory, but not derived within the paper.

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abstract

Employing combination of first-principles calculations, low-energy model construction, and variational Monte Carlo solution of the ab-initio derived Hubbard model, we study the effect of hydrogenation in the electronic structure and superconducting properties of infinite-layer nickelate, NdNiO$_2$. We find that the introduction of hydrogen at the apical oxygen vacancy position strongly influences the Wannier function corresponding to the effective interstitial orbital at the Ni site bound to the hydrogen. This results in the near disappearance of the electron pocket at the $k_z$ = $\pi$ Fermi surface, keeping that of $k_z$ = 0 unchanged, compared to the dehydrogenated case. The two-band model thus remains valid even in the presence of H. The calculated superconducting order parameters both in absence and presence of H, show a two-hump superconductivity arising the two overlapping domes, one arising from $d_{x^{2}-y^{2}}$ and another arising from interstitial orbital degree of freedom. Hydrogenation strengthens the latter, marginally affecting the former.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. (a) The crystal structure of dehyrogenated NdNiO [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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