Switchable chiral transport in charge-ordered Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$

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Auteurs principaux: Guo, Chunyu, Putzke, Carsten, Konyzheva, Sofia, Huang, Xiangwei, Gutierrez-Amigo, Martin, Errea, Ion, Chen, Dong, Vergniory, Maia G., Felser, Claudia, Fischer, Mark H., Neupert, Titus, Moll, Philip J. W.
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author Guo, Chunyu
Putzke, Carsten
Konyzheva, Sofia
Huang, Xiangwei
Gutierrez-Amigo, Martin
Errea, Ion
Chen, Dong
Vergniory, Maia G.
Felser, Claudia
Fischer, Mark H.
Neupert, Titus
Moll, Philip J. W.
author_facet Guo, Chunyu
Putzke, Carsten
Konyzheva, Sofia
Huang, Xiangwei
Gutierrez-Amigo, Martin
Errea, Ion
Chen, Dong
Vergniory, Maia G.
Felser, Claudia
Fischer, Mark H.
Neupert, Titus
Moll, Philip J. W.
contents When electric conductors differ from their mirror image, unusual chiral transport coefficients appear that are forbidden in achiral metals, such as a non-linear electric response known as electronic magneto-chiral anisotropy (eMChA). While chiral transport signatures are by symmetry allowed in many conductors without a center of inversion, it reaches appreciable levels only in rare cases when an exceptionally strong chiral coupling to the itinerant electrons is present. So far, observations of chiral transport have been limited to materials in which the atomic positions strongly break mirror symmetries. Here, we report chiral transport in the centro-symmetric layered Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$, observed via second harmonic generation under in-plane magnetic field. The eMChA signal becomes significant only at temperatures below $T'\sim$ 35 K, deep within the charge-ordered state of CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ ($T_{\mathrm{CDW}}\sim$ 94 K). This temperature dependence reveals a direct correspondence between electronic chirality, unidirectional charge order, and spontaneous time-reversal-symmetry breaking due to putative orbital loop currents. We show that the chirality is set by the out-of-plane field component and that a transition from left- to right-handed transport can be induced by changing the field sign. CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ is the first material in which strong chiral transport can be controlled and switched by small magnetic-field changes, in stark contrast to structurally chiral materials -- a prerequisite for their applications in chiral electronics.
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spellingShingle Switchable chiral transport in charge-ordered Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$
Guo, Chunyu
Putzke, Carsten
Konyzheva, Sofia
Huang, Xiangwei
Gutierrez-Amigo, Martin
Errea, Ion
Chen, Dong
Vergniory, Maia G.
Felser, Claudia
Fischer, Mark H.
Neupert, Titus
Moll, Philip J. W.
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
Superconductivity
When electric conductors differ from their mirror image, unusual chiral transport coefficients appear that are forbidden in achiral metals, such as a non-linear electric response known as electronic magneto-chiral anisotropy (eMChA). While chiral transport signatures are by symmetry allowed in many conductors without a center of inversion, it reaches appreciable levels only in rare cases when an exceptionally strong chiral coupling to the itinerant electrons is present. So far, observations of chiral transport have been limited to materials in which the atomic positions strongly break mirror symmetries. Here, we report chiral transport in the centro-symmetric layered Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$, observed via second harmonic generation under in-plane magnetic field. The eMChA signal becomes significant only at temperatures below $T'\sim$ 35 K, deep within the charge-ordered state of CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ ($T_{\mathrm{CDW}}\sim$ 94 K). This temperature dependence reveals a direct correspondence between electronic chirality, unidirectional charge order, and spontaneous time-reversal-symmetry breaking due to putative orbital loop currents. We show that the chirality is set by the out-of-plane field component and that a transition from left- to right-handed transport can be induced by changing the field sign. CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ is the first material in which strong chiral transport can be controlled and switched by small magnetic-field changes, in stark contrast to structurally chiral materials -- a prerequisite for their applications in chiral electronics.
title Switchable chiral transport in charge-ordered Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.09593