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Zheng G, Zhu Y, Mozaffari S, Mao N, Chen KW, Jenkins K, Zhang D, Chan A, Arachchige HWS, Madhogaria RP, Cothrine M, Meier WR, Zhang Y, Mandrus D, Li L. Quantum oscillations evidence for topological bands in kagome metal ScV 6Sn 6. J Phys Condens Matter 2024; 36:215501. [PMID: 38335546 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ad2803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 02/09/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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Metals with kagome lattice provide bulk materials to host both the flat-band and Dirac electronic dispersions. A new family of kagome metals is recently discovered inAV6Sn6. The Dirac electronic structures of this material needs more experimental evidence to confirm. In the manuscript, we investigate this problem by resolving the quantum oscillations in both electrical transport and magnetization in ScV6Sn6. The revealed orbits are consistent with the electronic band structure models. Furthermore, the Berry phase of a dominating orbit is revealed to be aroundπ, providing direct evidence for the topological band structure, which is consistent with calculations. Our results demonstrate a rich physics and shed light on the correlated topological ground state of this kagome metal.
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- Guoxin Zheng
- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden 01187, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
- Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States of America
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Pouget JP, Canadell E. Structural approach to charge density waves in low-dimensional systems: electronic instability and chemical bonding. Rep Prog Phys 2024; 87:026501. [PMID: 38052072 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ad124f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2023] [Accepted: 12/05/2023] [Indexed: 12/07/2023]
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The charge density wave (CDW) instability, usually occurring in low-dimensional metals, has been a topic of interest for longtime. However, some very fundamental aspects of the mechanism remain unclear. Recently, a plethora of new CDW materials, a substantial fraction of which is two-dimensional or even three-dimensional, has been prepared and characterised as bulk and/or single-layers. As a result, the need for revisiting the primary mechanism of the instability, based on the electron-hole instability established more than 50 years ago for quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) conductors, has clearly emerged. In this work, we consider a large number of CDW materials to revisit the main concepts used in understanding the CDW instability, and emphasise the key role of the momentum dependent electron-phonon coupling in linking electronic and structural degrees of freedom. We argue that for quasi-1D systems, earlier weak coupling theories work appropriately and the energy gain due to the CDW and the concomitant periodic lattice distortion (PLD) remains primarily due to a Fermi surface nesting mechanism. However, for materials with higher dimensionality, intermediate and strong coupling regimes are generally at work and the modification of the chemical bonding network by the PLD is at the heart of the instability. We emphasise the need for a microscopic approach blending condensed matter physics concepts and state-of-the-art first-principles calculations with quite fundamental chemical bonding ideas in understanding the CDW phenomenon in these materials.
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- Jean-Paul Pouget
- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain, and Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, Chemistry Section, La Rambla 115, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
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Tazai R, Yamakawa Y, Kontani H. Drastic magnetic-field-induced chiral current order and emergent current-bond-field interplay in kagome metals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2303476121. [PMID: 38207076 PMCID: PMC10801867 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2303476121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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In kagome metals, the chiral current order parameter [Formula: see text] with time-reversal-symmetry-breaking is the source of various exotic electronic states, while the method of controlling the current order and its interplay with the star-of-David bond order [Formula: see text] are still unsolved. Here, we reveal that tiny uniform orbital magnetization [Formula: see text] is induced by the chiral current order, and its magnitude is prominently enlarged under the presence of the bond order. Importantly, we derive the magnetic-field ([Formula: see text])-induced Ginzburg-Landau (GL) free energy expression [Formula: see text], which enables us to elucidate the field-induced current-bond phase transitions in kagome metals. The emergent current-bond-[Formula: see text] trilinear coupling term in the free energy, [Formula: see text], naturally explains the characteristic magnetic-field sensitive electronic states in kagome metals, such as the field-induced current order and the strong interplay between the bond and current orders. The GL coefficients of [Formula: see text] derived from the realistic multiorbital model are appropriate to explain various experiments. Furthermore, we discuss the field-induced loop current orders in the square lattice models that have been studied in cuprate superconductors.
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- Rina Tazai
- Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya464-8602, Japan
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Tazai R, Yamakawa Y, Kontani H. Charge-loop current order and Z 3 nematicity mediated by bond order fluctuations in kagome metals. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7845. [PMID: 38030600 PMCID: PMC10687221 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42952-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2022] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Recent experiments on geometrically frustrated kagome metal AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs) have revealed the emergence of the charge loop current (cLC) order near the bond order (BO) phase. However, the origin of the cLC and its interplay with other phases have been uncovered. Here, we propose a novel mechanism of the cLC state, by focusing on the BO phase common in kagome metals. The BO fluctuations in kagome metals, which emerges due to the Coulomb interaction and the electron-phonon coupling, mediate the odd-parity particle-hole condensation that gives rise to the topological current order. Furthermore, the predicted cLC+BO phase gives rise to the Z3-nematic state in addition to the giant anomalous Hall effect. The present theory predicts the close relationship between the cLC, the BO, and the nematicity, which is significant to understand the cascade of quantum electron states in kagome metals. The present scenario provides a natural understanding.
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Grants
- JP20K22328 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- JP22K14003 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- JP19H05825 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
- JP20K03858 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
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- Rina Tazai
- Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan.
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- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan
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Cao S, Xu C, Fukui H, Manjo T, Dong Y, Shi M, Liu Y, Cao C, Song Y. Competing charge-density wave instabilities in the kagome metal ScV 6Sn 6. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7671. [PMID: 37996409 PMCID: PMC10667248 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43454-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 11/25/2023] Open
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Owing to its unique geometry, the kagome lattice hosts various many-body quantum states including frustrated magnetism, superconductivity, and charge-density waves (CDWs). In this work, using inelastic X-ray scattering, we discover a dynamic short-range [Formula: see text] CDW that is dominant in the kagome metal ScV6Sn6 above TCDW ≈ 91 K, competing with the [Formula: see text] CDW that orders below TCDW. The competing CDW instabilities lead to an unusual CDW formation process, with the most pronounced phonon softening and the static CDW occurring at different wavevectors. First-principles calculations indicate that the [Formula: see text] CDW is energetically favored, while a wavevector-dependent electron-phonon coupling (EPC) promotes the [Formula: see text] CDW as the ground state, and leads to enhanced electron scattering above TCDW. These findings underscore EPC-driven correlated many-body physics in ScV6Sn6 and motivate studies of emergent quantum phases in the strong EPC regime.
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- Saizheng Cao
- Center for Correlated Matter and School of Physics, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- School of Physics, Hangzhou Normal University, 310036, Hangzhou, China
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, SPring-8, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan
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- Research Center for Quantum Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, 310000, Hangzhou, P. R. China
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- Center for Correlated Matter and School of Physics, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China
- Photon Science Division, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Center for Correlated Matter and School of Physics, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China
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- Center for Correlated Matter and School of Physics, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China.
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- Center for Correlated Matter and School of Physics, Zhejiang University, 310058, Hangzhou, China.
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