Abstract
The electronic structure of various nickel oxides with nickel valence varying from 1+ to 3+ was investigated with the aim to find similarities and differences to the isoelectronic cuprates. Only if the Ni ions are forced into a planar coordination with the O ions can a magnetic insulator be realized with the difficult oxidation state and possibly doped with low spin holes directly analogous to the superconducting cuprates. The more common oxidation state cannot be used to make a parent magnetic insulator as it forms rather as localized embedded in a sea of itinerant O holes. Strong coupling of these holes to the localized spins via hybridization leads to a heavy-fermion system with a large Kondo temperature, which was confirmed experimentally for
- Received 26 June 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.7901
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