Broken symmetries associated with a Kagome chiral charge order
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| author | Cheng, Zi-Jia Hossain, Md Shafayat Zhang, Qi Shao, Sen Liu, Jinjin Zhao, Yilin Yahyavi, Mohammad Jiang, Yu-Xiao Yin, Jia-Xin Yang, Xian Li, Yongkai Cochran, Tyler A. Litskevich, Maksim Kim, Byunghoon Zhang, Junyi Yao, Yugui Balicas, Luis Wang, Zhiwei Chang, Guoqing Hasan, M. Zahid |
| author_facet | Cheng, Zi-Jia Hossain, Md Shafayat Zhang, Qi Shao, Sen Liu, Jinjin Zhao, Yilin Yahyavi, Mohammad Jiang, Yu-Xiao Yin, Jia-Xin Yang, Xian Li, Yongkai Cochran, Tyler A. Litskevich, Maksim Kim, Byunghoon Zhang, Junyi Yao, Yugui Balicas, Luis Wang, Zhiwei Chang, Guoqing Hasan, M. Zahid |
| contents | Chirality or handedness manifests in all fields of science, ranging from cell biology, molecular interaction, and catalysis to different branches of physics. In condensed matter physics, chirality is intrinsic to enigmatic quantum phases, such as chiral charge density waves and chiral superconductivity. Here, the underlying chiral response is subtle and leads to broken symmetries in the ground state. Detection of subtle broken symmetries is the key to understand these quantum states but they are extremely challenging to expose leading to debate and controversy. Here, using second-order optical response, we uncover the broken symmetries of a chiral charge density wave in the Kagome lattice KV3Sb5, revealing the relevant broken symmetries of its charge order. KV3Sb5 undergoes a phase transition to a charge-ordered state at low temperatures. Our polarization-dependent mid-infrared photocurrent microscopy reveals an intrinsic, longitudinal helicity-dependent photocurrent associated with the charge order. Our measurements, supported by our theoretical analysis, provide direct evidence for broken inversion and mirror symmetries at the charge order transition, indicating a chiral charge ordered state. On the other hand, we do not observe a circular photogalvanic effect along the direction perpendicular to that of the incident light, imposing stringent constraints on the rotational and point group symmetries of the charge order. Our study not only visualizes the chiral nature of the Kagome charge order revealing its broken symmetries, but also highlights the nonlinear photogalvanic effect as a sensitive probe for detecting subtle symmetry breakings. |
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| spellingShingle | Broken symmetries associated with a Kagome chiral charge order Cheng, Zi-Jia Hossain, Md Shafayat Zhang, Qi Shao, Sen Liu, Jinjin Zhao, Yilin Yahyavi, Mohammad Jiang, Yu-Xiao Yin, Jia-Xin Yang, Xian Li, Yongkai Cochran, Tyler A. Litskevich, Maksim Kim, Byunghoon Zhang, Junyi Yao, Yugui Balicas, Luis Wang, Zhiwei Chang, Guoqing Hasan, M. Zahid Strongly Correlated Electrons Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Optics Chirality or handedness manifests in all fields of science, ranging from cell biology, molecular interaction, and catalysis to different branches of physics. In condensed matter physics, chirality is intrinsic to enigmatic quantum phases, such as chiral charge density waves and chiral superconductivity. Here, the underlying chiral response is subtle and leads to broken symmetries in the ground state. Detection of subtle broken symmetries is the key to understand these quantum states but they are extremely challenging to expose leading to debate and controversy. Here, using second-order optical response, we uncover the broken symmetries of a chiral charge density wave in the Kagome lattice KV3Sb5, revealing the relevant broken symmetries of its charge order. KV3Sb5 undergoes a phase transition to a charge-ordered state at low temperatures. Our polarization-dependent mid-infrared photocurrent microscopy reveals an intrinsic, longitudinal helicity-dependent photocurrent associated with the charge order. Our measurements, supported by our theoretical analysis, provide direct evidence for broken inversion and mirror symmetries at the charge order transition, indicating a chiral charge ordered state. On the other hand, we do not observe a circular photogalvanic effect along the direction perpendicular to that of the incident light, imposing stringent constraints on the rotational and point group symmetries of the charge order. Our study not only visualizes the chiral nature of the Kagome charge order revealing its broken symmetries, but also highlights the nonlinear photogalvanic effect as a sensitive probe for detecting subtle symmetry breakings. |
| title | Broken symmetries associated with a Kagome chiral charge order |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08537 |