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# Rich nature of Van Hove singularities in Kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

## Abstract

The recently discovered layered kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs) exhibit diverse correlated phenomena, which are intertwined with a topological electronic structure with multiple van Hove singularities (VHSs) in the vicinity of the Fermi level. As the VHSs with their large density of states enhance correlation effects, it is of crucial importance to determine their nature and properties. Here, we combine polarization-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with density functional theory to directly reveal the sublattice properties of 3d-orbital VHSs in CsV3Sb5. Four VHSs are identified around the M point and three of them are close to the Fermi level, with two having sublattice-pure and one sublattice-mixed nature. Remarkably, the VHS just below the Fermi level displays an extremely flat dispersion along MK, establishing the experimental discovery of higher-order VHS. The characteristic intensity modulation of Dirac cones around K further demonstrates the sublattice interference embedded in the kagome Fermiology. The crucial insights into the electronic structure, revealed by our work, provide a solid starting point for the understanding of the intriguing correlation phenomena in the kagome metals AV3Sb5.

## Introduction

Transition-metal based kagome materials, hosting corner-sharing triangles, offer an exciting platform to explore intriguing correlated1,2,3 and topological phenomena4,5,6, including quantum spin liquid7,8,9,10,11, unconventional superconductivity12,13,14,15, Dirac/Weyl semimetals16,17,18, and charge density wave (CDW) order1,2,3,4,5,13,14,15,19,20,21,22,23,24,25. Their emergence originates from the inherent features of the kagome lattice: substantial geometric spin frustration, flat bands, Dirac cones, and van Hove singularities (VHSs) at different electron fillings. Recently, a new family of kagome metal AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, Cs)26 with V kagome nets, was found to feature a 2 topological band structure27,28 and superconductivity was realized with a maximum Tc of 2.5 K at ambient pressure27. Moreover, they exhibit CDW order below TCDW ≈ 78–103 K29,30,31. Aside from the translational symmetry breaking in this CDW phase, the breaking of additional symmetries, i.e., rotation and time-reversal, was observed upon cooling down towards Tc29,32,33. Despite evidences supporting a nodeless gap from magnetic penetration depth measurements34, double superconducting domes under pressure35,36,37, a large residual in the thermal conductivity38 and an edge supercurrent in Nb/K1−xV3Sb5 suggest electronically driven and unconventional superconductivity39. It is widely believed that these exotic correlated phenomena are intimately connected with the multiple VHSs in the vicinity of the Fermi level40,41,42.

The characteristics of VHS bands are crucial in determining the Fermi surface instabilities13,14,15,19,20,21,22,23. From the perspective of band dispersion around the saddle point, VHSs can be classified into two types: conventional and higher-order43,44, as shown in Fig. 1e (i) and (ii). The higher-order VHS displays a flat dispersion along one direction with less pronounced Fermi surface nesting, generating a power-law divergent density of states (DOS) in two dimensions (2D) instead of a logarithmic divergent one43,44. Moreover, VHSs in kagome lattices possess distinct sublattice features: sublattice pure (p-type) and sublattice mixing (m-type), as shown in Fig. 1c. They induce an effective reduction of the local Coulomb interaction, thereby enhancing the role of non-local Coulomb terms13,14,40. Therefore, the nature of VHSs is pivotal to understand correlated phenomena, but still remains elusive in the kagome metals AV3Sb5 so far.

In this work, we perform a comprehensive study on the electronic structure of CsV3Sb5 by combining polarization-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements with density functional theory (DFT). The diverse nature of the four VHSs in the vicinity of the Fermi level (EF) is directly revealed. We observe three VHSs around the M point below the EF, formed by Vanadium 3d orbitals. Two of them are of conventional p-type, while the other one is of higher-order p-type. In addition, we find a conventional m-type VHS slightly above EF from our theoretical calculations. Furthermore, we show that the sublattice features are also embedded in the Dirac cone around the K point, exhibiting characteristic intensity modulations under various polarization conditions. Our study provides crucial insights into the electronic structure, thereby laying down the basis for a substantiated understanding of the correlation phenomena in the kagome metals AV3Sb5.

## Results

### Diverse nature of VHSs from theoretical calculations

CsV3Sb5 crystalizes in a layered hexagonal lattice consisting of alternately stacked V-Sb sheets and Cs layers. Each V-Sb sheet contains a 2D vanadium kagome net interweaved by a hexagonal lattice of Sb atoms (Fig. 1a). The vanadium kagome lattice, shown in Fig. 1b, hosts three distinct sublattices located at 3f Wyckoff positions. The toy band of the kagome lattice displays two different types of VHSs: p-type and m-type. For the p-type VHS, the states near the three M points are contributed by mutually different sublattices, while the eigenstates of the m-type VHS are equally distributed over mutually different sets of two sublattices for each M point, as illustrated in Fig. 1c. The band structure of CsV3Sb5 from DFT calculations is displayed in Fig. 1d, where four VHS points occur at M in the vicinity of EF (indicated by the red arrows and labeled as VHS1–4). Interestingly, VHS1 exhibits a much flatter dispersion along MK compared with the orthogonal direction MΓ. Further analysis shows that the quadratic contribution along MK is substantially reduced, indicating that VHS1 realizes a higher-order VHS (see Supplementary Fig. 4 for details). This is in contrast to the other three VHSs near EF which are all of conventional type with dominant quadratic dispersions in both directions. Motived by these observations, we perform ARPES measurements to investigate the electronic structure and focus on the nature of the VHSs in CsV3Sb5 which we infer from the polarization analysis.

### Multiple VHSs identified by ARPES

The overall band dispersion and constant energy contours of CsV3Sb5 obtained via ARPES experiment are summarized in Fig. 2. The evolution of the electronic bands with different binding energy in Fig. 2a display sophisticated structures, including Sb contributed electron pockets near the zone center and kagome-derived Dirac cones at the K points with binding energy ~0.27 eV (Fig. 2a and b). Photon energy-dependent measurement reveals a weak kz dispersion of the Vanadium d-orbitals (see Supplementary Fig. 1 for details), and we use the projected 2D BZ ($$\bar{\varGamma }$$, $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$, $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$) hereafter. Moreover, our temperature dependent measurement shows that the CDW order has some effect on the band dispersion around $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ point (see Supplementary Fig. 2). To reveal the VHS around $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ point, we display the band structure along the $$\bar{\varGamma }$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$-$$\bar{\varGamma }$$ direction at 200 K in Fig. 2c, which are in good agreement with our DFT calculations (Fig. 2d). From the dispersion around $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ point, we clearly identify three saddle points, denoted by VHS1, VHS2 and VHS3. Particularly, VHS1 and VHS2 are just slightly below EF with strong intensity (See Supplementary Fig. 3 for details). Photon energy-dependent measurement suggests weak kz dispersion of the VHS2 band but moderate kz dispersion of the VHS1 band (see Supplementary Fig. 1). Remarkably, VHS1 exhibits a pronounced flat dispersion that extends over more than half of the $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$ path. Indeed, by fitting the experimental spectra we find that the quadratic term is substantially smaller than the quartic one, revealing the higher-order nature of VHS1 (Fig. 2e, see Supplementary Fig. 4 for details). Notably, the measured dispersion around VHS1 is much flatter than the theoretical one, indicating that renormalizations due to the electronic correlations enhance the higher-order nature of VHS1 (see Supplementary Fig. 4).

### Orbital and sublattice characters of the VHSs

After directly identifying the VHSs in CsV3Sb5 from the band dispersion, we now turn to determining the sublattice nature of VHSs from the orbital symmetries by employing polarization-dependent ARPES measurements (see Supplementary Fig. 5 for experimental details). According to the selection rules in photoemission, bands can be selectively detected depending on their symmetry with respect to given mirror planes of the geometry45. Specifically, even- (resp. odd-) parity orbitals with respect to a mirror plane will be detected by the polarization whose electric field vector is in (resp. out of) the mirror plane. Our ARPES geometry is sketched in Fig. 3a. Polarization-dependent measurements were performed on the band structures along two orthogonal paths, $$\bar{\varGamma }$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$ and $$\bar{\varGamma }$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$-$$\bar{\varGamma }$$ directions (Fig. 3b). We first employ circular polarization that can detect both even- and odd-parity orbitals to map out the full dispersions, as shown in Fig. 3c, d. To determine the orbital character of the bands, we further adopt linear horizontal (LH) polarization (Fig. 3e, f) and linear vertical (LV) (Fig. 3g, h) polarization. The electric field vector of LH and LV polarized light is in and out the mirror plane, respectively. Thus, when aligning the $$\bar{\varGamma }$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ direction of the sample to along the analyzer slit, dxz, $$d_{{z}^{2}}$$ and $$d_{{{x}^{2}}-{{y}^{2}}}$$ are all of even symmetry with respect to the mirror plane and are detectable in the LH geometry. However, dyz and dxy are odd with respect to the mirror plane, and thus photoemission signals are only detectable in the LV geometry. Likewise, when the slit is along the $$\bar{\varGamma }$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$ direction, the orbitals can be selected accordingly (see Supplementary Table I). Based on these selection rules (see supplementary Fig. 5 for details of the matrix element analysis), the orbital characters of the bands constituting the VHSs below EF can be clearly identified, as shown in Fig. 3i. The VHS1, VHS2, and VHS3 are attributed to $$d_{{{x}^{2}}-{{y}^{2}}}/d_{{z}^{2}}$$, dyz an dxy orbitals, respectively. We note that the flat top of the VHS1 band exhibits relatively weak intensity along the $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ direction in the LH polarization (Fig. 3e), while the full flat dispersion of the VHS1 can be observed at other photon energies (54, 108 eV, corresponding to kz = 0 as same as 78 eV), indicating that the diminished intensity of the flat-band top at 78 eV (Fig. 3e) is attributed to the matrix elements effect (see Supplementary Fig. 7 for details).

## Discussion

With the experimental determination of the orbital character around the $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ point, we plot the theoretical orbital-resolved band dispersion in Fig. 3j originating from sublattice A (Fig. 1b), which is invariant under mirror reflection Mxz and Myz. Comparing the orbital characters around M point in Fig. 3i, j, we find a good agreement between the experimental and theoretical results. Furthermore, the states at VHS1, VHS2 and VHS3 at $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ point, characterized by Ag, B2g and B1g irrep., are solely attributed to the A sublattice and inversion-even, confirming their p-type nature (Fig. 3k). The band top of dxz band at $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{M}}}}}}}$$ is above EF and beyond experimental observation (Fig. 3i, j). However, our calculations show that this band belongs to B1u irrep. (inversion-odd, Fig. 3k) and is attributed to a mixed contribution from sublattices B and C, implying its m-type nature (see Supplementary Fig. 6). The four p-type and m-type VHSs, especially, the three of them (the VHS1, VHS2 and VHS4) are close to the Fermi level, suggesting that these VHSs with their large DOS and nontrivial sublattice and higher-order natures play a key role in driving the exotic correlated electronic states in AV3Sb5.

We further discuss the sublattice features of the Dirac cone bands around the $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$ point. The polarization dependent intensity patterns of the Dirac cones can convey the phase information of electronic wave functions, providing a way to determine the chirality of the Dirac cone6,46,47. Figure 4a displays representative constant energy contours of CsV3Sb5 around the $$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$ point. The spectral intensity is strongly modulated around the kagome-derived Dirac cone for the LH polarization (Fig. 4b), with the maximum and minimum along the $$\bar{\varGamma }$$-$$\bar{{{{{{\rm{K}}}}}}}$$ direction but at opposite momentum direction above [Fig. 4a(i)] and below [Fig. 4a(iii)] the Dirac point [Fig. 4a(ii) and b]. Similar behavior is observed in LV polarization but in a reversed fashion (Fig. 4c, d). The intensity modulation around the Dirac cone, mimicking the case of graphene47 and the kagome metal FeSn6, indicates the chirality of the kagome-derived Dirac fermions in CsV3Sb5. The spectral intensity patterns (Fig. 4a, c) can be excellently reproduced in a spectral simulation based on sublattice interference of kagome initial states (Fig. 4e), further illustrating the sublattice interference embedded in the band structure of CsV3Sb5.

Our ARPES measurements, combined with DFT calculations, reveal the different natures of the four 3d-orbital VHSs near EF and the chiralities of the kagome-derived Dirac cones in CsV3Sb5. These are general features in the family of kagome metals AV3Sb5 and have important physical implications. For example, the nontrivial sublattice texture of the p-type VHSs leads, via sublattice interference, to a suppression of local Hubbard interactions and promotes the relevance of non-local Coulomb terms13,40. The bands from the conventional p-type VHS2 feature a good Fermi surface nesting, and the nesting vector connects parts of the Fermi surfaces dominated by different sublattices, which can lead to a 2 × 2 bond CDW instability. This could provide a reasonable explanation for the observed CDW order48,49. However, the origin of the CDW order is still under debate and phonons can play an important role30. The higher-order p-type VHS1, on the other hand, exhibits less pronounced Fermi surface nesting with large DOS, which could promote a nematic order43,44, providing a possible explanation for the additional crystal symmetry breaking in the CDW phase at lower temperature. The appearance of multiple types of VHSs near EF including both p-type and m-type, derived from the multi-orbital nature, can induce a rich competition for various pairing instabilities and thus generate numerous different orders depending on small changes in the electron filling40,41,42,43,44. The kagome metals AV3Sb5 offer the tantalizing opportunity to access and tune these orders via carrier doping or external pressure35,36,50,51,52,53,54, which remains to be further investigated both experimentally and theoretically.

## Methods

### Single crystals growth

Single crystals of CsV3Sb5 were synthesized using the self-flux method. All sample preparation is performed in an argon glovebox with oxygen and moisture <0.5 ppm. The flux precursor was formed through mechanochemical methods by mixing Cs metal (Alfa 99.98%), V powder (sigma 99.9%), and Sb beads (Alfa, 99.999%) to form a mixture which is ~50 at.% Cs0.4Sb0.6 (near eutectic composition) and 50 at.% VSb2. Note that prior to mixing, as-received vanadium powders were purified in-house to remove residual oxides. After milling for 60 m in a pre-seasoned tungsten carbide vial, flux precursors are extracted and sealed into 10 mL alumina crucibles. The crucibles are nested within stainless steel jackets and sealed under argon. Samples are heated to 1000 °C at 250 °C/h and soaked for 24 h before dropping to 900 °C at 100 °C/h. Crystals are formed during the final slow cool to 500 °C at 1 °C/h before terminating the growth. Once cooled, the crystals are recovered mechanically. Samples are hexagonal flakes with brilliant metallic luster. Elemental composition of crystals was assessed using energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) using an APREO-C scanning electron microscope.

### ARPES measurements

The samples were cleaved in situ with a base pressure of better than 5 × 10−11 Torr. Angle-resolved photoemission (ARPES) measurements were performed at the ULTRA endstation of the Surface/Interface Spectroscopy (SIS) beamline of the Swiss Light Source. Data was acquired with a Scienta-Omicron DA30L analyzer using 78 eV photons with a total energy resolution of 18 meV. The Fermi level was determined by measuring a polycrystalline Au in electrical contact with the samples.

### Computational methods

We employed first-principle calculations based on the density-functional theory (DFT) as implemented in the VASP1,2,3. The core electrons were treated using the projector-augmented wave method, and the exchange correlation energy was described by the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) using the PBE functional4. The cutoff energy for expanding the wave functions into a plane-wave basis was set to 500 eV. The Brillouin zone was sampled in k space within the Monkhorst–Pack scheme5 with a k mesh of 9 × 9 × 5, which achieved reasonable convergence of electronic structures. We have also done the calculations with spin–orbit coupling (SOC) and there are no qualitative changes except some gap openings, compared with the band without SOC. Therefore, we present the band structure without SOC in the main text to clearly identify the orbital characters. For all calculations, we used the experimentally determined crystal structure (space group P6/mmm, a = b = 5.4949 Å, c = 9.3085 Å).

## Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors upon reasonable request.

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## Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank J.-F. He for helpful discussions. The work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Grant. No. 200021-188413, and the NCCR MARVEL, a National Centre of Competence in Research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 182892). The work at UC Santa Barbara was supported via the UC Santa Barbara NSF Quantum Foundry funded via the Q-AMASE-i program under award DMR-1906325. This research made use of the shared facilities of the NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at UC Santa Barbara (DMR- 1720256). B.R.O. acknowledges support from the California NanoSystems Institute through the Elings Fellowship program. Y.H. was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12004363). J.Z.M. was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12104379), Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2021B1515130007). M.R. acknowledges the support of SNF Project No. 200021-182695. R.T. is funded by the DeutscheForschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) throughProject-ID 258499086 - SFB 1170 and through the Würzburg-DresdenCluster of Excellence on Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter - ct.qmat Project-ID 390858490 - EXC 2147.

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Y.H. and M.S. designed the research. B.R.O. grew and characterized the crystals with guidance from S.D.W. X.W. and X.H. performed the theoretical calculations with the support from A.P.S. and R.T. Y.H. performed the ARPES experiments with help from S.J., N.C.P., J.Z.M., M.R. and M.S. Y.H. analyzed the data and discussed with N.C.P. Y.H. draw the figures with help from X.W. and M.S. Y.H. and X.W. wrote the paper with inputs from A.P.S. and M.S. All authors contributed to the discussions. M.S., A.P.S., and Y.H. supervised the project.

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