Small Fermi Pockets Intertwined with Charge Stripes and Pair Density Wave Order in a Kagome Superconductor

Hong Li, Dongjin Oh, Mingu Kang, He Zhao, Brenden R. Ortiz, Yuzki Oey, Shiang Fang, Zheng Ren, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Joseph G. Checkelsky, Ziqiang Wang, Stephen D. Wilson, Riccardo Comin, Ilija Zeljkovic

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Abstract

The kagome superconductor family AV3Sb5 (A=Cs, K, Rb) emerged as an exciting platform to study exotic Fermi surface instabilities. Here, we use spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy (SI-STM) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to reveal how the surprising cascade of higher- and lower-dimensional density waves in CsV3Sb5 is intimately tied to a set of small reconstructed Fermi pockets. ARPES measurements visualize the formation of these pockets generated by a 3D charge density wave transition. The pockets are connected by dispersive q∗ wave vectors observed in Fourier transforms of STM differential conductance maps. As the additional 1D charge order emerges at a lower temperature, q∗ wave vectors become substantially renormalized, signaling further reconstruction of the Fermi pockets. Remarkably, in the superconducting state, the superconducting gap modulations give rise to an in-plane Cooper pair density wave at the same q∗ wave vectors. Our work demonstrates the intrinsic origin of the charge stripes and the pair density wave in CsV3Sb5 and their relationship to the Fermi pockets. These experiments uncover a unique scenario of how Fermi pockets generated by a parent charge density wave state can provide a favorable platform for the emergence of additional density waves.

Original languageEnglish
Article number031030
JournalPhysical Review X
Volume13
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2023
Externally publishedYes

Funding

I. Z. gratefully acknowledges support from NSF-DMR 2216080 for STM experiments. Work at M. I. T. was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program under Grant No. FA9550-19-1-0063 and by the STC Center for Integrated Quantum Materials (National Science Foundation Grant No. DMR-1231319). This research used resources of the Advanced Light Source, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. M. K. acknowledges a Samsung Scholarship from the Samsung Foundation of Culture. Z. W. acknowledges the support of U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences Grant No. DE-FG02-99ER45747 and the Cottrell SEED Award No. 27856 from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The theoretical calculations were funded, in part, by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation EPiQS Initiative, Grant No. GBMF9070 to J. G. C. S. D. W. and B. R. O. gratefully acknowledge support via the UC Santa Barbara NSF Quantum Foundry funded via the Q-AMASE-i program under Award No. DMR-1906325.

FundersFunder number
STC Center for Integrated Quantum Materials
Samsung Foundation of Culture
UC Santa Barbara NSFDMR-1906325
National Science FoundationDMR-1231319
U.S. Department of Energy
Division of Materials Research
Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA9550-19-1-0063
Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationGBMF9070
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Office of ScienceDE-AC02-05CH11231
Basic Energy Sciences27856, DE-FG02-99ER45747

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