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When the thickness of a LaNiO3 film is reduced to only two unit cells, the material undergoes an abrupt metal-to-insulator transition.

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Figure 1: Schematics of the structure of an ultrathin LaNiO3 layer.

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  1. Marc Gabay is at the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides of the Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France,

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  2. Jean-Marc Triscone is at the Department of Condensed Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland,

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Gabay, M., Triscone, JM. It takes two to waver. Nature Nanotech 9, 417–418 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.108

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