Evidence for chiral superconductivity in Kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5

Abstract

The interplay among frustrated lattice geometry, nontrivial band topology and correlations yields rich quantum states of matter in Kagome systems. A class of recent Kagome metals, AV3Sb5 (A= K, Rb, Cs), exhibit a cascade of symmetry-breaking transitions, involving 3Q chiral charge ordering, electronic nematicity, roton pair density wave and superconductivity. The interdependence among multiple competing orders suggests unconventional superconductivity, the nature of which is yet to be resolved. Here, we report the electronic evidence for chiral superconducting domains with boundary supercurrent, a smoking-gun of chiral superconductivity, in intrinsic CsV3Sb5 akes. Magnetic field-free superconducting diode effects are observed with its polarity modulated by thermal histories, unveiling a spontaneous time-reversal-symmetry breaking within dynamical order parameter domains in the superconducting phase. Strikingly, the critical current exhibits double-slit superconducting interference patterns, when subjected to external magnetic field. This is attributed to the periodic modulation of supercurrent owing along chiral domain boundaries constrained by fluxoid quantization. Our results provide the direct demonstration of a time-reversal symmetry breaking superconducting order in Kagome systems, opening a potential for exploring exotic physics, e.g. Majorana zero modes, in this intriguing topological Kagome system.Comment: 16 pages,13 figure