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Abstract:
Geometrically frustrated kagome lattices are raising as novel platforms to engineer correlated topological electron flat bands that are prominent to electronic instabilities. Here, we demonstrate a phonon softening at the kz = π plane in ScV6Sn6. The low energy longitudinal phonon collapses at ~98 K and q = 131312 due to the electron-phonon interaction, without the emergence of long-range charge order which sets in at a different propagation vector q CDW = 131313 . Theoretical calculations corroborate the experimental finding to indicate that the leading instability is located at 131312 of a rather flat mode. We relate the phonon renormalization to the orbital-resolved susceptibility of the trigonal Sn atoms and explain the approximately flat phonon dispersion. Our data report the first example of the collapse of a kagome bosonic mode and promote the 166 compounds of kagomes as primary candidates to explore correlated flat phonon-topological flat electron physics. © 2023, Springer Nature Limited.
