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Orbital magnetization in the Nb-substituted Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$

Materials Science 2025-11-04 v1

Abstract

This study uses angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to examine the low-temperature electronic structure of Cs(V0.95_{0.95}Nb0.05_{0.05})3_3Sb5_5, demonstrating that partially substituting V atoms with isoelectronic Nb atoms results in \blue{an increase of the band width} and enhanced gap opening at the Dirac-like crossings due to the resulting chemical pressure. This increases the magnetic circular dichroism signal in the angular distribution (MCDAD) compared to CsV3_3Sb5_5, enabling detailed analysis of magnetic circular dichroism in several bands near the Fermi level. These results \blue{substantiate} the predicted coupling of orbital magnetic moments to three van Hove singularities near the Fermi level at M points. Previous studies have observed that Nb doping \blue{lowers the charge density transition temperature} and increases the critical temperature for superconductivity. This article demonstrates that Nb doping concomitantly increases the magnetic circular dichroism signal attributed to orbital moments.

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@article{arxiv.2511.01238,
  title  = {Orbital magnetization in the Nb-substituted Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$},
  author = {H. J. Elmers and O. Tkach and Y. Lytvynenko and H. Agarwal and D. Biswas and J. Liu and A. -A. Haghighirad and M. Merz and S. Pakhira and G. Garbarino and T. -L. Lee and J. Demsar and G. Schonhense and M. Le Tacon and O. Fedchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01238},
  year   = {2025}
}