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Waves break the symmetry

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Optical experiments reveal nematicity and broken time-reversal symmetry in the charge density waves in kagome metals.

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Fig. 1: Crystal structures of AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb or Cs) in the pristine phase and charge density wave (CDW) phase and orbital currents.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Luyi Yang

  2. Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing, China

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