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Pressure-Dependent Electronic Superlattice in the Kagome Superconductor CsV_{3}Sb_{5}
F Stier1, A-A Haghighirad2, G Garbarino3
1Institut für Festkörper- und Materialphysik, <a href="https://ror.org/042aqky30">Technische Universität Dresden</a>, 01062 Dresden, Germany.
Abstract:
We present a high-resolution single crystal x-ray diffraction study of kagome superconductor CsV_{3}Sb_{5}, exploring its response to variations in pressure and temperature. We discover that at low temperatures, the structural modulations of the electronic superlattice, commonly associated with charge-density-wave order, undergo a transformation around p∼0.7 GPa from the familiar 2×2 pattern to a long-range-ordered modulation at wave vector q=(0,3/8,1/2). Our observations align with inferred changes in the charge-density-wave pattern from prior transport and nuclear-magnetic-resonance studies, providing new insights into these transitions. Interestingly, the pressure-induced variations in the electronic superlattice correlate with two peaks in the superconducting transition temperature as pressure changes, hinting that fluctuations within the electronic superlattice could be key to stabilizing superconductivity. However, our findings contrast with the minimal pressure dependency anticipated by ab initio calculations of the electronic structure. They also challenge prevailing scenarios based on a Peierls-like nesting mechanism involving Van Hove singularities.
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