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Berry-Flux-Controlled Cascade of Chiral Superconducting States

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2026-05-29 v3

Abstract

Motivated by recent interest in chiral superconductivity in narrow bands, we develop a general framework to clarify how band topology and quantum geometry affect superconducting pairing and connect to the two-body problem. Berry curvature does not merely favor a chiral pairing channel; it produces a sequence of chiral pairing instabilities indexed by angular momentum, controlled by the Berry flux through the Fermi sea, with a Little-Parks-like periodicity in momentum space. We show that Berry curvature converts a nonchiral attractive interaction into a geometrically frustrated Cooper problem in momentum space. The relevant control parameter is the Berry-curvature flux enclosed by the Fermi sea, Φ=bkF2\Phi = b k_F^2, which acts as an effective Aharonov-Bohm flux for the order parameter defined on the Fermi surface. As Φ\Phi is tuned, the leading pairing instability switches between odd angular-momentum channels m=1,3,5...m=1,3,5..., producing a cascade of first-order transitions and Little-Parks-like oscillations of TcT_c.

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@article{arxiv.2601.08055,
  title  = {Berry-Flux-Controlled Cascade of Chiral Superconducting States},
  author = {Daniil Karuzin and Zhiyu Dong and Leonid Levitov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.08055},
  year   = {2026}
}

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