Common beam as a default beam for aperiodic channel state information reference signals

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state that is associated with at least two signals or at least two communication channels. The UE may use the TCI state as the default beam to receive an aperiodic channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) based at least in part on a scheduling offset between a scheduling downlink control information, which schedules the aperiodic CSI-RS, and a transmission time of the aperiodic CSI-RS being less than a beam switch latency threshold. Numerous other aspects are provided.