Monolayer Kagome metals AV(3)Sb(5)

Abstract

Recently, layered kagome metals AV(3)Sb(5) (A = K, Rb, and Cs) have emerged as a fertile platform for exploring frustrated geometry, correlations, and topology. Here, using first-principles and mean-field calculations, we demonstrate that AV(3)Sb(5) can crystallize in a mono-layered form, revealing a range of properties that render the system unique. Most importantly, the two-dimensional monolayer preserves intrinsically different symmetries from the three-dimensional layered bulk, enforced by stoichiometry. Consequently, the van Hove singularities, logarithmic divergences of the electronic density of states, are enriched, leading to a variety of competing instabilities such as doublets of charge density waves and s- and d-wave superconductivity. We show that the competition between orders can be fine-tuned in the monolayer via electron-filling of the van Hove singularities. Thus, our results suggest the monolayer kagome metal AV(3)Sb(5) as a promising platform for designer quantum phases. Much recent work has focused on the kagome metals AV(3)Sb(5) (A = K, Rb, and Cs), but studies of the monolayer form are only just beginning. Here, the authors theoretically study monolayer kagome metals, and predict modified van Hove singularities that lead to charge-density-wave doublets and d-wave superconductivity.