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The family of AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A = K, Rb, Cs) kagome metals exhibit charge density wave (CDW) order, proposed to be chiral, followed by a lower temperature superconducting state. Recent studies have proposed the importance of band structure…
The recently-discovered family of Kagome metals has attracted significant interest due to reports of charge-bond order, orbital magnetism, and superconductivity. Some of these phases may exhibit time-reversal symmetry breaking. More…
The vanadium-based kagome metals $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$ ($A$ = K, Rb, and Cs) host a superconducting ground state that coexists with an unconventional charge density wave (CDW). The CDW state exhibits experimental signatures of chirality,…
Understanding the competition between superconductivity and other ordered states (such as antiferromagnetic or charge-density-wave (CDW) state) is a central issue in condensed matter physics. The recently discovered layered kagome metal…
The electronic orders in Hubbard models on a Kagome lattice at van Hove filling are of intense current interest and debate. We study this issue using the singular-mode functional renormalization group theory. We discover a rich variety of…
The transition-metal kagome lattice materials host frustrated, correlated, and topological quantum states of matter. Recently, a new family of vanadium-based kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A=K, Rb, and Cs) with topological band structures has been…
As many Kagome metals, the topological superconductor AV$_3$Sb$_5$ with (A = K,Rb,Cs) hosts a charge density wave . A related chiral flux phase that breaks the time-reversal symmetry has been further theoretically predicted in these…
First-principles density functional theory calculations are performed to understand the electronic structure and interaction parameters for recently discovered superconducting Kagome metal CsV$_3$Sb$_5$. A systematic analysis of the…
Understanding the nature of charge density wave (CDW) and superconductivity in kagome metal AV$_3$Sb$_5$ (A=Cs,Rb,K) is a recent subject of intensive study. Due to the presence of van Hove singularities, electron-electron interaction has…
The kagome lattice, the most prominent structural motif in quantum physics, benefits from inherent nontrivial geometry to host diverse quantum phases, ranging from spin-liquid phases, topological matter to intertwined orders, and most…
Superconductivity can coexist or compete with other orders such as magnetism or density waves. Optimizing superconductivity requires identifying competing orders that may disrupt Cooper pair coherence. Here, we use the self-field critical…
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.…
Fabrication of new types of superconductors with novel physical properties has always been a major thread in the research of superconducting materials. An example is the enormous interests generated by the cascade of correlated topological…
The kagome metals of the family $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$, featuring a unique structural motif, harbor an array of intriguing phenomena such as chiral charge order and superconductivity. CsV$_3$Sb$_5$ is of particular interest because it displays a…
We report the discovery of superconductivity and detailed normal-state physical properties of RbV3Sb5 single crystals with V kagome lattice. RbV3Sb5 single crystals show a superconducting transition at Tc ~ 0.92 K. Meanwhile, resistivity,…
When multiple degrees of freedom share similar energy scales in quantum materials, intertwined electronic orders, which exhibit broken symmetries, are often strongly coupled. Recent studies on kagome superconductors such as CsV$_3$Sb$_5$…
The recently discovered layered kagome metals AV$_3$Sb$_5$(A=K, Rb, Cs) have attracted much attention because of their unique combination of superconductivity, charge density wave (CDW) order, and nontrivial band topology. The CDW order…
The recently discovered vanadium-based kagome metals $A$V$_{3}$Sb$_{5}$ ($A$~=~K,~Rb,~Cs) exhibit superconductivity at low-temperatures and charge density wave (CDW) order at high-temperatures. A prominent feature of the charge ordered…
Kagome metals $A$V$_3$Sb$_5$ ($A=$K, Rb, Cs) exhibit an exotic charge order (CO), involving three order parameters, with broken translation and time-reversal symmetries compatible with the presence of orbital currents. The properties of…
We argue that kagome metals can feature an excitonic condensate of unconventional nature. Studying the recently discovered variants ScV$_6$Sn$_6$ and LuNb$_6$Sn$_6$ we identify electron and hole pockets due to a pair of van Hove…