Loop currents in $A$V${}_3$Sb${}_5$ kagome metals: multipolar and toroidal magnetic orders

Abstract

Experiments in the recently discovered vanadium-based kagome metals have suggested that their charge-ordered state displays not only bond distortions, characteristic of a ``real" charge density-wave (rCDW), but also time-reversal symmetry-breaking, typical of loop currents described by an ``imaginary" charge density-wave (iCDW). Here, we combine density-functional theory, group-theory, and phenomenological modeling to investigate the complex charge-ordered states that arise from interactions between the low-energy van Hove singularities present in the electronic structure of $A$V${}_3$Sb${}_5$. We find two broad classes of mixed iCDW-rCDW configurations: triple-$\mathbf{Q}$ iCDW, triple-$\mathbf{Q}$ rCDW order, dubbed $3\mathbf{Q}$-$3\mathbf{Q}$, and double-$\mathbf{Q}$ iCDW, single-$\mathbf{Q}$ rCDW order, dubbed $2\mathbf{Q}$-$1\mathbf{Q}$. Moreover, we identify seven different types of iCDW order, stemming from the different vanadium-orbital and kagome-sublattice structures of the two pairs of van Hove singularities present above and below the Fermi level. While the $2\mathbf{Q}$-$1\mathbf{Q}$ states trigger an orthorhombic distortion that breaks the threefold rotational symmetry of the kagome lattice, the $3\mathbf{Q}$-$3\mathbf{Q}$ states induce various types of subsidiary uniform magnetic orders, from conventional ferromagnetism to magnetic octupolar, magnetic toroidal, and even magnetic monopolar order. We show that these exotic orders display unique magneto-striction, magneto-electric, and magneto-electric-striction properties that can be probed experimentally to identify which iCDW state is realized in these compounds. We briefly discuss the impact of an out-of-plane modulation of the charge order and the interplay between these complex charge-ordered states and superconductivity.

20 pages, 8 figures

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