Motivated by the observation of a pair density wave (PDW) in the kagome metal CsV3Sb5, we consider the fate of electrons near a p-type van Hove singularity (vHS) in the presence of local repulsive interactions. We study the effect of such interactions on Fermi surface "patches" at the vHS. We show how a feature unique to the Kagome lattice known as sublattice interference crucially affects the form of the interactions among the patches. The renormalization group (RG) flow of such interactions results in a regime where the nearest neighbor interaction V exceed the onsite repulsion U. We identify this condition as being favorable for the formation of charge-density-wave (CDW) and PDW orders. In the weak coupling limit, we find a complex CDW order as the leading instability, which breaks time reversal symmetry. Beyond RG, we perform a Hartree-Fock study to a V-only model and find the pair-density-wave order indeed sets in at some intermediate coupling.
@article{arxiv.2211.01388,
title = {Sublattice Interference promotes Pair Density Wave order in Kagome Metals},
author = {Yi-Ming Wu and Ronny Thomale and S. Raghu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01388},
year = {2023}
}
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main text: 6 pages and 3 figures. Supplementary material: 8 pages and 2 figures