Kagome superconductor AV3Sb5 (A stands for K, Rb, and Cs) hosts a wealth of intertwined electronic orders driven by geometric frustration and electron correlations. Among them, the breaking of rotational and/or time-reversal symmetry, observed within the triple-Q charge density wave (CDW) phase yet exhibiting a more complex temperature dependence, remains a central puzzle. Here, by using scanning tunneling microscopy to study the electronic structures of CsV3Sb5 as a function of temperature and Ti doping, we disentangle the interrelation between two distinct nematic order parameters, one associated with the CDW and the other manifested as C2 distortion of the V-dx2−y2 Fermi pockets without breaking transition symmetry. The latter persists to high doping levels and high temperatures where the long-range CDW is fully suppressed. Moreover, its nematic director is oriented in a lattice direction distinct from that of the CDW-induced nematicity at intermediate doping, and eventually aligns with the strong nematic CDW order in the pristine compound where the quasiparticles of vanadium orbitals become coherent below a lower characteristic temperature. These observations, combined with Ginzburg-Landau analysis, reveal a rich interplay between two nematic orders that can be assigned to distinct kagome-lattice orbitals. Our results shed new light on the enigmatic intertwined orders in this family and establish a rare material platform in which dual nematic orders coexist and couple to give rise to unusual correlated phenomena.
@article{arxiv.2604.05506,
title = {Visualizing the interplay of dual electronic nematicities in kagome superconductors},
author = {Yunmei Zhang and Jun Zhan and Ping Wu and Yun-Peng Huang and Qixiao Yuan and Hongyu Li and Zhuying Wang and Wanru Ma and Shuikang Yu and Kunming Zhang and Wanlin Cheng and Deshu Chen and Minrui Chen and Tao Wu and Ziji Xiang and Xianxin Wu and Zhenyu Wang and Xianhui Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05506},
year = {2026}
}