Thickness-driven crossover from conventional to chiral nonreciprocal superconductivity in kagome metal CsV3Sb5

Superconductivity and its potential applications are governed by the symmetry of the superconducting order parameter. In the kagome metal CsV3Sb5, most bulk studies indicate conventional s-wave pairing. However, ultrathin flakes exhibit nonreciprocal transport, in particular a zero-field superconducting diode effect, which requires broken inversion and time-reversal symmetries. Here, using thickness dependent transport measurements, we observe the emergence of non-reciprocal second-harmonic magnetotransport signals and a zero-field superconducting diode effect, accompanied by a pronounced reduction of the out-of-plane coherence length with decreasing thickness. Upper critical field measurements further reveal a dimensional crossover from three-dimensional superconductivity in bulk to two-dimensional superconductivity in thin flakes. These findings indicate a thickness-induced chiral superconducting phase that breaks both inversion and time-reversal symmetries in the two-dimensional limit. Our work not only clarifies long-standing controversies regarding the pairing symmetry in CsV3Sb5, but also establishes thin-flake kagome superconductors as a versatile platform for engineering nonreciprocal quantum devices and exploring emergent topological phases.