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Journal Article
Charge-density-wave-driven electronic nematicity in a kagome superconductor
2022
Overview
Electronic nematicity, in which rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken by electronic degrees of freedom, has been demonstrated as a ubiquitous phenomenon in correlated quantum fluids including high-temperature superconductors and quantum Hall systems
1
,
2
. Notably, the electronic nematicity in high-temperature superconductors exhibits an intriguing entanglement with superconductivity, generating complicated superconducting pairing and intertwined electronic orders. Recently, an unusual competition between superconductivity and a charge-density-wave (CDW) order has been found in the
A
V
3
Sb
5
(
A
= K, Rb, Cs) family with two-dimensional vanadium kagome nets
3
–
8
. Whether these phenomena involve electronic nematicity is still unknown. Here we report evidence for the existence of electronic nematicity in CsV
3
Sb
5
, using a combination of elastoresistance measurements, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and scanning tunnelling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/S). The temperature-dependent elastoresistance coefficient (
m
11
minus
m
12
) and NMR spectra demonstrate that, besides a
C
2
structural distortion of the 2
a
0
× 2
a
0
supercell owing to out-of-plane modulation, considerable nematic fluctuations emerge immediately below the CDW transition (approximately 94 kelvin) and finally a nematic transition occurs below about 35 kelvin. The STM experiment directly visualizes the
C
2
-structure-pinned long-range nematic order below the nematic transition temperature, suggesting a novel nematicity described by a three-state Potts model. Our findings indicate an intrinsic electronic nematicity in the normal state of CsV
3
Sb
5
, which sets a new paradigm for revealing the role of electronic nematicity on pairing mechanism in unconventional superconductors.
Charge-density-wave-driven electronic nematicity that occurs well below the charge-density-wave transition temperature is reported in the kagome superconductor CsV
3
Sb
5
.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group
