Pomeranchuk instability from electronic correlations in CsTi<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>5</sub> kagome metal.

Bigi, Chiara; Dürrnagel, Matteo; Klebl, Lennart; Consiglio, Armando; Pokharel, Ganesh; Zonno, Marta; Bertran, François; Le Fèvre, Patrick et al. · Nat Commun · 2025

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Electronic nematicity, the spontaneous breaking of rotational symmetry, has emerged as a key instability in correlated quantum systems. CsTi<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>5</sub>, a kagome metal of the AV<sub>3</sub>Sb<sub>5</sub> (A = K, Rb, Cs) family, hosts rich unconventional electronic phases, yet the origin of its nematicity remains unsettled. Here, we combine polarization-dependent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with functional renormalization group calculations on a fully interacting ab initio model. We reveal an orbital-selective nematic deformation in the low-energy band structure and identify a finite angular momentum (d-wave) Pomeranchuk instability driven by electronic correlations in specific orbital channels and detuning from Van Hove singularities. Our results establish a direct link between orbital selectivity and symmetry-breaking instabilities in CsTi<sub>3</sub>Bi<sub>5</sub>, providing a microscopic framework for nematic order in kagome systems.