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Superconducting pairing symmetries in charge-ordered kagom\'e metals

Superconductivity 2025-09-08 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We investigate the superconducting state in a kagom\'e lattice, with intertwined charge order and time-reversal symmetry-breaking loop current, using self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism to find the emergent pairing symmetries. Using local and nearest-neighbor attractive interactions, treated within Hartree-Fock mean-field approximation, we obtain all possible pairing symmetries in position space. Our findings indicate that the uniform ss-wave symmetry, arising in the absence of the charge order and the loop current, modifies to a pair density wave of ss-wave symmetry of 2×\times2 lattice periodicity in the presence of the charge order, and a chiral pair density wave of dx2y2 ⁣+ ⁣idxyd_{x^2-y^2}\!+\!id_{xy}-wave symmetry of the same 2×\times2 periodicity in the presence of the charge order and loop current order, in both onsite and nearest-neighbor channels. In the absence of inversion symmetry, such as in the thin-film geometry, Rashba spin-orbit coupling appears, inducing an additional nearest-neighbor triplet px±ipyp_x\pm ip_y-wave pairing. The results are relevant to superconductivity found in AAV3_{3}Sb5_{5} (AA = K, Rb, Cs), coexisting with a charge order that breaks time-reversal symmetry. We discuss fingerprints of these different pairing symmetries in scanning tunneling microscopy experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2509.04571,
  title  = {Superconducting pairing symmetries in charge-ordered kagom\'e metals},
  author = {Pujita Das and Parth Bahuguna and Tulika Maitra and Narayan Mohanta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.04571},
  year   = {2025}
}

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15 pages, 10 figures

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