Softening of a flat phonon mode in the kagome ScV₆Sn₆.

ABSTRACT: Geometrically frustrated kagome lattices are raising as novel platforms to engineer correlated topological electron flat bands that are prominent to electronic instabilities. Here, we demonstrate a phonon softening at the k_z = π plane in ScV₆Sn₆. The low energy longitudinal phonon collapses at ~98 K and q = [Formula: see text] due to the electron-phonon interaction, without the emergence of long-range charge order which sets in at a different propagation vector q_CDW = [Formula: see text]. Theoretical calculations corroborate the experimental finding to indicate that the leading instability is located at [Formula: see text] of a rather flat mode. We relate the phonon renormalization to the orbital-resolved susceptibility of the trigonal Sn atoms a

SUBMITTER: Korshunov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10589229 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature