Reply to "Limitations of detecting structural changes and time-reversal symmetry breaking in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments"

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Main Authors: Xing, Yuqing, Bae, Seokjin, Wilson, Stephen D., Wang, Ziqiang, Fernandes, Rafael M., Madhavan, Vidya
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author Xing, Yuqing
Bae, Seokjin
Wilson, Stephen D.
Wang, Ziqiang
Fernandes, Rafael M.
Madhavan, Vidya
author_facet Xing, Yuqing
Bae, Seokjin
Wilson, Stephen D.
Wang, Ziqiang
Fernandes, Rafael M.
Madhavan, Vidya
contents In their comment, the authors attribute our observations of light- and magnetic-field-induced manipulation of the CDW state in RbV3Sb5 to random experimental artifacts such as tip changes, drift, and scan conditions, concluding that no intrinsic effect exists. In this reply, we clarify three points. First, our reported magnetic-field-induced CDW switching has been independently replicated in multiple STM studies and corroborated by transport measurements. Second, in our data, the switching of CDW intensities and Bragg vector ratios exhibit high fidelity (nearly 100 $\%$), and this cannot be explained by random artifacts. Lastly, we disprove the comment's unsubstantiated claim about magnetic field values by showing a system-dependent correlation between z-piezo shift and magnetic field. Taken together, our Reply reaffirms the reproducibility and intrinsic nature of light and magnetic field induced CDW manipulation in RbV3Sb5.
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spellingShingle Reply to "Limitations of detecting structural changes and time-reversal symmetry breaking in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments"
Xing, Yuqing
Bae, Seokjin
Wilson, Stephen D.
Wang, Ziqiang
Fernandes, Rafael M.
Madhavan, Vidya
Superconductivity
Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
In their comment, the authors attribute our observations of light- and magnetic-field-induced manipulation of the CDW state in RbV3Sb5 to random experimental artifacts such as tip changes, drift, and scan conditions, concluding that no intrinsic effect exists. In this reply, we clarify three points. First, our reported magnetic-field-induced CDW switching has been independently replicated in multiple STM studies and corroborated by transport measurements. Second, in our data, the switching of CDW intensities and Bragg vector ratios exhibit high fidelity (nearly 100 $\%$), and this cannot be explained by random artifacts. Lastly, we disprove the comment's unsubstantiated claim about magnetic field values by showing a system-dependent correlation between z-piezo shift and magnetic field. Taken together, our Reply reaffirms the reproducibility and intrinsic nature of light and magnetic field induced CDW manipulation in RbV3Sb5.
title Reply to "Limitations of detecting structural changes and time-reversal symmetry breaking in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments"
topic Superconductivity
Materials Science
Strongly Correlated Electrons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01305