SPICE Workshop on Unconventional Superconductors and Magnets May 12th - 14th, 2026
Stephen Wilson
Both two dimensional kagome and three-dimensional pyrochlore metals can play host to a myriad of forms of frustration within their electronic degrees of freedom. Kinetic frustration via hopping interference, sublattice interference effects, and local forms of frustrated charge/bond order are a few examples of this, and an added degree of complexity arises when this frustration either cooperates or competes with other electronic instabilities such as a superconducting ground state. In this talk, I will discuss our experimental work probing the unconventional charge correlations that form in a quasi-two dimensional kagome superconductor built from vanadium ions and its three-dimensional pyrochlore counterpart. The interplay between charge correlations and superconductivity will be discussed along with the origins of short-range charge correlations in each compound.