Twofold van Hove singularity and origin of charge order in topological kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Max Planck POSTECH Korea Research Initiative, Pohang (Korea, Republic of)
- Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)
- Max Planck POSTECH Korea Research Initiative, Pohang (Korea, Republic of); Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Inst. for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang (Korea, Republic of)
- Univ. Würzburg (Germany)
- Univ. of Bologna (Italy); Flatiron Institute, New York, NY (United States)
- Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology (Korea, Republic of)
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
The layered vanadium antimonides AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs) are a recently discovered family of topological kagome metals that exhibit a range of strongly correlated electronic phases including charge order and superconductivity. However, it is not yet understood how the distinctive electronic structure of the kagome lattice is linked to the observed many-body phenomena. Here we combine angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory to reveal multiple kagome-derived van Hove singularities (vHS) coexisting near the Fermi level of CsV3Sb5 and analyse their contribution to electronic symmetry breaking. The vHS are characterized by two distinct sublattice flavours (p-type and m-type), which originate, respectively, from their pure and mixed sublattice characters. These twofold vHS flavours of the kagome lattice critically determine the pairing symmetry and unconventional ground states emerging in the AV3Sb5 series. We establish that, among the multiple vHS in CsV3Sb5, the m-type vHS of the dxz/dyz kagome band and the p-type vHS of the dxy/dx2–y2 kagome band are located very close to the Fermi level, setting the stage for electronic symmetry breaking. The former band is characterized by pronounced Fermi surface nesting, while the latter exhibits a higher-order vHS. Furthermore, our work reveals the essential role of kagome-derived vHS for the collective phenomena realized in the AV3Sb5 family.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1892029
- Journal Information:
- Nature Physics, Journal Name: Nature Physics Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 18; ISSN 1745-2473
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group (NPG)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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