Field induced density wave in a kagome superconductor

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Autores principales: Hossain, Md Shafayat, Zhang, Qi, Ingham, Julian, Liu, Jinjin, Shao, Sen, Li, Yangmu, Wang, Yuxin, Pokharel, Bal K., Cheng, Zi-Jia, Jiang, Yu-Xiao, Litskevich, Maksim, Kim, Byunghoon, Yang, Xian, Li, Yongkai, Cochran, Tyler A., Yao, Yugui, Popović, Dragana, Wang, Zhiwei, Chang, Guoqing, Thomale, Ronny, Balicas, Luis, Hasan, M. Zahid
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author Hossain, Md Shafayat
Zhang, Qi
Ingham, Julian
Liu, Jinjin
Shao, Sen
Li, Yangmu
Wang, Yuxin
Pokharel, Bal K.
Cheng, Zi-Jia
Jiang, Yu-Xiao
Litskevich, Maksim
Kim, Byunghoon
Yang, Xian
Li, Yongkai
Cochran, Tyler A.
Yao, Yugui
Popović, Dragana
Wang, Zhiwei
Chang, Guoqing
Thomale, Ronny
Balicas, Luis
Hasan, M. Zahid
author_facet Hossain, Md Shafayat
Zhang, Qi
Ingham, Julian
Liu, Jinjin
Shao, Sen
Li, Yangmu
Wang, Yuxin
Pokharel, Bal K.
Cheng, Zi-Jia
Jiang, Yu-Xiao
Litskevich, Maksim
Kim, Byunghoon
Yang, Xian
Li, Yongkai
Cochran, Tyler A.
Yao, Yugui
Popović, Dragana
Wang, Zhiwei
Chang, Guoqing
Thomale, Ronny
Balicas, Luis
Hasan, M. Zahid
contents On the kagome lattice, electrons benefit from the simultaneous presence of band topology, flat electronic bands, and van Hove singularities, forming competing or cooperating orders. Understanding the interrelation between these distinct order parameters remains a significant challenge, leaving much of the associated physics unexplored. In the kagome superconductor KV3Sb5, which exhibits a charge density wave (CDW) state below T = 78 K, we uncover an unpredicted field-induced phase transition below 6 K. The observed transition is marked by a hysteretic anomaly in the resistivity, nonlinear electrical transport, and a change in the symmetry of the electronic response as probed via the angular dependence of the magnetoresistivity. These observations surprisingly suggest the emergence of an unanticipated broken symmetry state coexisting with the original CDW. To understand this experimental observation, we developed a theoretical minimal model for the normal state inside the high-temperature parent CDW phase where an incommensurate CDW order emerges as an instability sub-leading to superconductivity. The incommensurate CDW emerges when superconducting fluctuations become fully suppressed by large magnetic fields. Our results suggest that, in kagome superconductors, quantum states can either coexist or are nearly degenerate in energy, indicating that these are rich platforms to expose new correlated phenomena.
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spellingShingle Field induced density wave in a kagome superconductor
Hossain, Md Shafayat
Zhang, Qi
Ingham, Julian
Liu, Jinjin
Shao, Sen
Li, Yangmu
Wang, Yuxin
Pokharel, Bal K.
Cheng, Zi-Jia
Jiang, Yu-Xiao
Litskevich, Maksim
Kim, Byunghoon
Yang, Xian
Li, Yongkai
Cochran, Tyler A.
Yao, Yugui
Popović, Dragana
Wang, Zhiwei
Chang, Guoqing
Thomale, Ronny
Balicas, Luis
Hasan, M. Zahid
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
On the kagome lattice, electrons benefit from the simultaneous presence of band topology, flat electronic bands, and van Hove singularities, forming competing or cooperating orders. Understanding the interrelation between these distinct order parameters remains a significant challenge, leaving much of the associated physics unexplored. In the kagome superconductor KV3Sb5, which exhibits a charge density wave (CDW) state below T = 78 K, we uncover an unpredicted field-induced phase transition below 6 K. The observed transition is marked by a hysteretic anomaly in the resistivity, nonlinear electrical transport, and a change in the symmetry of the electronic response as probed via the angular dependence of the magnetoresistivity. These observations surprisingly suggest the emergence of an unanticipated broken symmetry state coexisting with the original CDW. To understand this experimental observation, we developed a theoretical minimal model for the normal state inside the high-temperature parent CDW phase where an incommensurate CDW order emerges as an instability sub-leading to superconductivity. The incommensurate CDW emerges when superconducting fluctuations become fully suppressed by large magnetic fields. Our results suggest that, in kagome superconductors, quantum states can either coexist or are nearly degenerate in energy, indicating that these are rich platforms to expose new correlated phenomena.
title Field induced density wave in a kagome superconductor
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13260