Absence of Acoustic Phonon Anomaly in a Kagome Metal with Short-ranged Structural Modulation

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Main Authors: Yao, Weiliang, Liu, Supeng, Xu, Zifan, Ishikawa, Daisuke, Wang, Zehao, Gao, Bin, Xu, Sijie, Ye, Feng, Hashimoto, Kenichiro, Shibauchi, Takasada, Baron, Alfred Q. R., Dai, Pengcheng
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author Yao, Weiliang
Liu, Supeng
Xu, Zifan
Ishikawa, Daisuke
Wang, Zehao
Gao, Bin
Xu, Sijie
Ye, Feng
Hashimoto, Kenichiro
Shibauchi, Takasada
Baron, Alfred Q. R.
Dai, Pengcheng
author_facet Yao, Weiliang
Liu, Supeng
Xu, Zifan
Ishikawa, Daisuke
Wang, Zehao
Gao, Bin
Xu, Sijie
Ye, Feng
Hashimoto, Kenichiro
Shibauchi, Takasada
Baron, Alfred Q. R.
Dai, Pengcheng
contents Kagome lattice $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$ ($A$ = K, Rb, and Cs) superconductors without magnetism from vanadium $d$-electrons are intriguing because they have a novel charge density wave (CDW) order around 90 K and display superconductivity at $\sim$3 K that competes with the CDW order. Recently, CsCr$_3$Sb$_5$, isostructural to $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$, was found to have concurrent structural and magnetic phase transition at $T^{\ast}\approx$ 55 K that can be suppressed by pressure to induce superconductivity [Liu \textit{et al.}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07761-x}{Nature \textbf{632}, 1032 (2024)}]. Here, we use elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering to study the microscopic origin of the structural transition in CsCr$_3$Sb$_5$. Although our elastic measurements confirm the 4$\times$1$\times$1 superlattice order below $T^{\ast}$, its underlying correlation is rather short-ranged. Moreover, our inelastic measurements at the superlattice wavevectors around (3, 0, 0) find no evidence of a significant acoustic phonon anomaly below $T^{\ast}$, similar to the case of $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$. The absence of acoustic phonon anomaly indicates a weak electron-phonon coupling in CsCr$_3$Sb$_5$, suggesting that the structural transition is likely associated with an unconventional CDW order.
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spellingShingle Absence of Acoustic Phonon Anomaly in a Kagome Metal with Short-ranged Structural Modulation
Yao, Weiliang
Liu, Supeng
Xu, Zifan
Ishikawa, Daisuke
Wang, Zehao
Gao, Bin
Xu, Sijie
Ye, Feng
Hashimoto, Kenichiro
Shibauchi, Takasada
Baron, Alfred Q. R.
Dai, Pengcheng
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
Kagome lattice $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$ ($A$ = K, Rb, and Cs) superconductors without magnetism from vanadium $d$-electrons are intriguing because they have a novel charge density wave (CDW) order around 90 K and display superconductivity at $\sim$3 K that competes with the CDW order. Recently, CsCr$_3$Sb$_5$, isostructural to $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$, was found to have concurrent structural and magnetic phase transition at $T^{\ast}\approx$ 55 K that can be suppressed by pressure to induce superconductivity [Liu \textit{et al.}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07761-x}{Nature \textbf{632}, 1032 (2024)}]. Here, we use elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering to study the microscopic origin of the structural transition in CsCr$_3$Sb$_5$. Although our elastic measurements confirm the 4$\times$1$\times$1 superlattice order below $T^{\ast}$, its underlying correlation is rather short-ranged. Moreover, our inelastic measurements at the superlattice wavevectors around (3, 0, 0) find no evidence of a significant acoustic phonon anomaly below $T^{\ast}$, similar to the case of $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$. The absence of acoustic phonon anomaly indicates a weak electron-phonon coupling in CsCr$_3$Sb$_5$, suggesting that the structural transition is likely associated with an unconventional CDW order.
title Absence of Acoustic Phonon Anomaly in a Kagome Metal with Short-ranged Structural Modulation
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16465