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A thin film of the nickelate La3Ni2O7 leaves Fermi-liquid behavior at just 1.41 GPa of hydrostatic pressure.

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load-bearing objection Plausible but under-quantified: the T^1.4 shift is likely real, but a single film, no error bars, and a freezing pressure medium leave the exponent one notch short of solid. the 4 major comments →

arxiv 2603.26978 v1 pith:NMH5X2GB submitted 2026-03-27 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con

Non-Fermi liquid behavior in La₃Ni₂O₇ thin films under hydrostatic pressure

classification cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.supr-con
keywords La3Ni2O7bilayer nickelatethin filmshydrostatic pressurenon-Fermi liquidFermi liquidquantum critical pointspin-density wave
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The paper reports that a thin film of the bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7, grown on LaAlO3, stops behaving like a Fermi liquid when squeezed to only 1.41 GPa: its low-temperature resistance follows R0 + A T^1.4 instead of the T^2 law of ordinary metals. At 0.53 GPa the same film still shows T^2 behavior, so a modest increase in pressure drives the crossover. The authors read this as evidence that the film sits near a quantum critical point tied to spin-density-wave order, making the normal state highly tunable in thin-film form. The result matters because bulk crystals of the same material need roughly ten times higher pressure to show comparable non-Fermi-liquid behavior, so films offer a low-pressure platform to study the physics behind nickelate superconductivity.

Core claim

On a fully strained La3Ni2O7 film on LaAlO3(001), resistance was measured under hydrostatic pressure in a piston-cylinder cell. At ambient pressure, the low-temperature resistance fits a Kondo-like form −ln(T)+T^γ; at 0.53 GPa it fits R0+AT^2, the Fermi-liquid expectation; at 1.41 GPa it fits R0+AT^1.4 from 1.8 K to 60 K. The exponent change with only about 0.9 GPa additional pressure—6–8% of the pressure used in diamond-anvil-cell studies on bulk crystals—is the central observation. The paper attributes this crossover to proximity to a spin-density-wave quantum critical point, with epitaxial strain and oxygen tuning placing the film close to the ordered phase at ambient pressure.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing quantity is the exponent α in the power law R(T)=R0+AT^α, extracted from low-temperature resistance fits. The proposed mechanism is quantum-critical spin-fluctuation scattering: α=2 is Fermi-liquid, α≈1.4 sits between the values expected for two-dimensional ferromagnetic (4/3) and three-dimensional antiferromagnetic (3/2) fluctuations, and the authors argue it approaches α=1 (strange-metal behavior) at slightly higher pressure. The combination of epitaxial compressive strain from the substrate and applied hydrostatic pressure is what tunes the system toward the critical point.

Load-bearing premise

The central claim rests on the unverified assumption that the α≈1.4 power law measured on a single film is intrinsic electronic behavior, not an artifact of pressure inhomogeneity, film cracking, or a strain-induced structural transition.

What would settle it

A second film from the same growth batch, pressurized under identical conditions, fails to show the crossover from α≈2 to α≈1.4 between 0.53 and 1.41 GPa—or post-pressure X-ray diffraction reveals cracks or a phase transition—would falsify the intrinsic interpretation.

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If this is right

  • At 1.41 GPa, non-Fermi-liquid transport (α≈1.4) is accessible in a laboratory using modest piston-cylinder pressure rather than diamond-anvil cells.
  • Pressure suppresses the low-temperature Kondo-like upturn seen at ambient pressure, indicating a tunable crossover in the normal-state scattering.
  • The rapid exponent change suggests the film is near a quantum critical point; slightly higher pressures may drive α toward 1, as seen in other nickelate systems.
  • Films on YAlO3(110) show a resistance and Hall anomaly near 120 K attributed to spin-density-wave order, while fully strained LAO films do not show this anomaly.
  • Annealing in molecular oxygen alone does not induce superconductivity in these films; ozone appears necessary to fill oxygen vacancies efficiently.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the pressure shift is intrinsic, epitaxial strain may act like a large effective negative pressure, which would explain why about 1.4 GPa on a film mimics effects seen at much higher pressure in bulk; this can be tested by comparing films on substrates with different lattice mismatch under the same pressure.
  • A finer pressure sweep with small increments between 0.53 and 1.41 GPa would reveal whether α evolves continuously or jumps; a continuous crossover would support quantum criticality, while a jump would point to a first-order structural or electronic transition.
  • The single-film measurement leaves open the possibility that film cracking or freezing of the pressure medium produced the apparent exponent; repeating the measurement on multiple films with structural verification before and after pressure would settle this.
  • The ambient-pressure Kondo-like upturn could be distinguished from quantum-critical scattering by measuring magnetoresistance or Hall response under pressure.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript reports growth of bilayer La3Ni2O7 thin films on LAO(001), SLAO(001), and YAO(110) substrates, characterization by RHEED/XRD, transport and Hall measurements, and high-pressure resistance measurements using a piston-cylinder cell with Daphne 7575 oil. The central claim is that for a film on LAO(001), increasing hydrostatic pressure from ambient to 0.53 GPa changes the low-temperature resistance from a Kondo-like form to R(T)=R0+AT^2, and further pressure to 1.41 GPa changes it to R0+AT^1.4 over 1.8–60 K. This 2→1.4 evolution is interpreted as a crossover to non-Fermi liquid behavior driven by proximity to a spin-density-wave quantum critical point, at pressures only 6–8% of those used in bulk diamond-anvil-cell studies.

Significance. If established, the main result is significant: it would show that strain and oxygen stoichiometry in thin-film La3Ni2O7 place the system much closer to a pressure-tuned quantum critical point than bulk crystals, and that modest pressures can induce NFL transport. The paper has clear strengths: growth on multiple substrates with RHEED/XRD characterization, systematic oxygen-annealing comparisons, Hall measurements on two substrates, and a qualitatively documented pressure evolution of R(T). However, the central claim rests almost entirely on power-law exponents extracted from a single film at one pressure, without error bars, residual analysis, range-sensitivity tests, or a check that the pressure medium remains hydrostatic at low temperature. The extrinsic-to-intrinsic attribution of the T^1.4 exponent is therefore not yet secured, and the quantum-critical interpretation outruns the current data.

major comments (4)
  1. [Sec. III, Fig. 4(b)] The load-bearing claim is that α=1.4 at 1.41 GPa, but the manuscript reports no confidence interval, residual analysis, or comparison against competing exponents (e.g., T^3/2, T^4/3, or T^2 with a different R0). The fit R(T)=R0+AT^α has a strong R0–α trade-off, so the figure alone does not establish that α=1.4 is uniquely preferred. Please report the fitted parameters with uncertainties, show residuals, and test the sensitivity of α to the fitting window (e.g., 1.8–30 K vs 1.8–60 K).
  2. [Sec. II, high-pressure methods] Daphne 7575 oil is known to solidify at low temperatures; at 1.41 GPa and 1.8 K the medium may be nonhydrostatic or frozen, producing strain gradients or pressure inhomogeneity that could mimic a non-Fermi-liquid power law. No low-temperature hydrostaticity check is reported. Please provide evidence that the pressure medium remains hydrostatic at the measurement temperatures, or discuss the expected freezing point and its consequences for the extracted exponent.
  3. [Sec. III, Fig. 4] The T^2→T^1.4 evolution is demonstrated for one film at one pressure point. No replicate sample or repeat pressure run is shown, and there is no post-pressure XRD, AFM, or microscopy to confirm that the film structure and electrical continuity are unchanged after pressurization. Since the ambient-pressure low-temperature upturn is acknowledged in the text to 'be attributable to... structural disorder,' extrinsic contributions are plausible. Please add a reproducibility check and a post-pressure structural/electrical characterization, or explicitly state the corresponding limitations.
  4. [Sec. III, Discussion of QCP] The interpretation that α=1.4 indicates proximity to a spin-density-wave QCP is based on three pressure points and a single exponent. The text itself notes that 'measurements over a wider pressure range are required to understand the quantitative distance to the critical point,' but the abstract and conclusions nonetheless assert proximity to a QCP. This does not invalidate the empirical finding, but the conclusion should be reworded as a hypothesis unless additional pressure points and a measured tuning parameter (e.g., evolution of α with pressure, or suppression of an ordered phase) are provided.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Conclusions] There is a grammatical error: 'in not enough to induce superconductivity' should be 'is not enough.'
  2. [Sec. III, Fig. 4(b) and Conclusions] The pressure is given as 0.53 GPa in the text but 0.52 GPa in the Conclusions. Please make the values consistent.
  3. [Fig. 3 caption] The symbols R_xy are used for sheet resistance in some panels and Hall resistance in others. This is confusing; please use distinct notation for longitudinal and Hall resistances.
  4. [Abstract and Introduction] The statement that 1.41 GPa is '6–8%' of DAC pressures is ambiguous: 1.41/14 GPa ≈ 10%, and 0.53/14 GPa ≈ 3.8%. Please clarify which reference pressure is used and how the 6–8% figure is obtained.
  5. [Sec. III, Hall data] The transition 'around 117 K' is marked by a dashed guide line, but no quantitative determination of the transition temperature or its uncertainty is given. If this transition is used as evidence of SDW ordering, please show how the value was extracted.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the paper reports empirical power-law fits and benchmarks them against external theoretical results.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is an observed change in the low-temperature resistance exponent of one La3Ni2O7 film on LAO(001) under hydrostatic pressure: R(T)=R0+A T^2 at 0.53 GPa and R(T)=R0+A T^1.4 at 1.41 GPa (Fig. 4b; Section III). This is a direct fit to measured data, not a quantity re-used to predict itself; the extracted α is the report, not a prediction generated from the fit. The interpretation that α=1.4 signals proximity to a QCP is supported by an external benchmark (Stewart's RMP 2001 classification and spin-fluctuation exponents [29]) and by comparisons to other nickelate, iron-based, and cuprate systems; none of these citations is by the present authors or otherwise load-bearing as a self-citation chain. The paper's own limitations are stated: 'While measurements over a wider pressure range are required to understand the quantitative distance to the critical point itself' (Section III), and 'Additional experiments are warranted to elucidate the nature of the ordering at this transition' (Section III). Those caveats concern robustness and interpretation, not circularity. No fitted parameter is renamed as an independent prediction, no uniqueness theorem is imported, and no ansatz is smuggled in via citation. The main experimental weakness—lack of error bars on α, no low-T hydrostaticity check, single film—is a correctness/robustness risk, not a circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

3 free parameters · 4 axioms · 0 invented entities

The paper's central claim is an empirical power-law fit; it introduces no free parameters beyond the fitted resistance law. Every claim about quantum criticality rests on external theoretical benchmarks, not on a derivation.

free parameters (3)
  • α (power-law exponent at 1.41 GPa) = 1.4
    From fit to R(T) between 1.8 K and 60 K; no error bar reported (Fig. 4b)
  • α (power-law exponent at 0.53 GPa) = 2.0
    From fit to R(T); interpreted as Fermi liquid T^2 (Fig. 4b)
  • γ (Kondo-model exponent at ambient pressure) = 1.9
    From fit R ∝ -ln T + T^γ at 0 GPa; the exponent is near 2 but with additional log term (Fig. 4b)
axioms (4)
  • domain assumption The film is single-phase, fully strained bilayer La3Ni2O7 on LAO(001)
    Inferred from XRD (00l) reflections and c-axis lattice constant; no RSM or TEM confirmation provided (Section III, Fig. 1d)
  • domain assumption Daphne 7575 oil remains effectively hydrostatic in the piston-cylinder cell at low temperatures and pressures up to 1.41 GPa
    Standard assumption for this pressure medium; not verified in situ for this sample (Section II)
  • domain assumption The low-temperature resistance upturn at ambient pressure is Kondo-like, described by R ∝ -ln T + T^γ
    This model is assumed to fit the data; no alternatives (e.g., weak localization, electron–electron interaction) are tested (Section III)
  • domain assumption α=1.4 is indicative of non-Fermi liquid behavior near a quantum critical point of a spin-density-wave order
    Interpretation based on comparison with theoretical exponents from Ref. [29]; no direct magnetic probe is used (Section III)

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The discovery of superconductivity in bilayer nickel-oxides has revived an intense effort to understand the potential of high-temperature superconductivity in these materials and their relation to cuprate superconductors. In this work, we investigate the growth and properties of bilayer La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ thin films as a function of substrate, oxygen treatment and applied pressure in order to study the evolution of transport properties. We report epitaxial growth of La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ thin films on LaAlO$_3$ (LAO) (001) and SrLaAlO$_4$ (SLAO) (001) substrates, and the effects of ex-situ annealing in a high pressure furnace under an oxygen-rich environment. Transport measurements show that the La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ thin films on LAO(001) exhibit Fermi liquid-like metallic behavior with a slight Kondo-like upturn at low temperatures, which evolves with the application of modest hydrostatic pressures toward non-Fermi liquid behavior with a temperature dependence of resistance approaching $\sim$ T$^{1.4}$ at 1.41 GPa. The ability to tune the normal state resistivity of La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ films to display non-Fermi liquid behavior under such a modest hydrostatic pressure range - only 6 - 8 % of that typically applied via diamond anvil cell (DAC) in La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ single crystals to achieve comparable effects - is both noteworthy and unexpected. These findings imply the strong tunability of La$_3$Ni$_2$O$_7$ in thin film form and the likely proximity of a strongly fluctuating ordered state leading to non-Fermi liquid behavior under even modest applied pressures.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.26978 by Deepak Kumar, Ichiro Takeuchi, Jared Z. Dans, Johnpierre Paglione, Keenan E. Avers, Ryan Paxson.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: presents an overview of the structural characterization of 6-7 nm La3Ni2O7 (LNO327) thin films deposited on LaAlO3 (LAO)(001) and SrLaAlO4 (SLAO)(001) substrates, which exhibit nominal lattice mismatches of approximately -1.1 % and -2 %, respec￾tively, as depicted schematically in Figure 1a. The nega￾tive values indicate that the films experience compressive strain during growth. The film growth was carefu… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: presents the transport measurements of LNO327 films on LAO(001) (Figures 2a and 2b) and SLAO(001) (Figure 2c) substrates. The film grown on an LAO substrate demonstrates typical Fermi-liquid metal￾lic behavior, consistent with previous studies [8, 15]. Since nickelate thin films are often affected by oxygen deficiencies [7, 8, 11, 12], additional annealing was con￾ducted both in-situ in the PLD chamber and… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: b) and carrier concentration (n, Fig. 3c). As shown in Fig. 3b, the calculated Hall coefficient RH is positive at measured temperatures and decreases with increasing temperature. Such behavior may indicate multiband electronic structure of the LNO327 films, where electronic structure near the Fermi surface is dominated by Ni 3d orbitals (3dz 2 and 3dx2−y2 ) and is consistent with previous results [7, 8, 14… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (b). At ambient pressure, the data align best with a Kondo model described by R ∝ –ln(T) + T γ . Under increased pressure, the optimal fit transitions to a simple power law: R(T) = R0 + ATα. Up to 0.53 GPa, the measured power law is consistent with Fermi liquid be￾havior, characterized by a T 2 dependence of resistance due to quasiparticle-quasiparticle scattering. However, upon further pressure increase t… view at source ↗

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