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Nature Research, Nature Communications, 1(14), 2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39620-0

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Observation of flat band, Dirac nodal lines and topological surface states in Kagome superconductor CsTi3Bi5

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Abstract

AbstractKagome lattices of various transition metals are versatile platforms for achieving anomalous Hall effects, unconventional charge-density wave orders and quantum spin liquid phenomena due to the strong correlations, spin-orbit coupling and/or magnetic interactions involved in such a lattice. Here, we use laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy in combination with density functional theory calculations to investigate the electronic structure of the newly discovered kagome superconductor CsTi3Bi5, which is isostructural to the AV3Sb5(A = K, Rb or Cs) kagome superconductor family and possesses a two-dimensional kagome network of titanium. We directly observe a striking flat band derived from the local destructive interference of Bloch wave functions within the kagome lattice. In agreement with calculations, we identify type-II and type-III Dirac nodal lines and their momentum distribution in CsTi3Bi5from the measured electronic structures. In addition, around the Brillouin zone centre,${{ℤ}}_{2}$Z2nontrivial topological surface states are also observed due to band inversion mediated by strong spin-orbit coupling.