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Ultrafast carrier relaxation and coherent phonon dynamics in the kagome material CsTi3Bi5

Liye Cao, Fanbo Shen, Zehao Yu, Hongbo Hu, Yanfeng Guo, and Rongyan Chen

Phys. Rev. B - Accepted 15 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/8mgp-dwf2

Abstract

The kagome compound CsTi3Bi5 serves as a natural counterpart to the extensively studied CsV3Sb5, offering an ideal platform for directly comparing their emergent physical properties. Here, we employ ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy to investigate the nonequilibrium carrier dynamics and collective excitations in CsTi3Bi5. The quasiparticle relaxation consists of several decay components, among which the fast sub-picosecond decay is governed by the electron-phonon (e-ph) coupling. The extracted coupling constant of approximately 0.413± 0.007 is smaller than that reported for CsV3Sb5. This weak coupling strength may be one factor contributing to the absence of a charge-density-wave (CDW) order in CsTi3Bi5, even when its van Hove singularities are tuned to the Fermi level, suggesting that e-ph coupling may play an important role in stabilizing the CDW state in CsV3Sb5. In addition, a coherent acoustic phonon mode with a frequency of 0.012 THz is identified, corresponding to a sound velocity of vs=1460 m/s. Combined with the absence of any observed coherent optical phonon modes, the anomalous hardening of this mode with increasing temperature further supports weak e-ph coupling. Together, these results advance the understanding of nonequilibrium carrier and lattice dynamics in kagome materials.

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