Berry Phase Enforced Spinor Pairing Order
Superconductivity
2026-05-06 v4 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
We introduce a class of topological pairing orders characterized by a half-integer pair monopole charge, leading to Berry phase enforced half-integer partial wave symmetry. This exotic spinor order emerges from pairing between Fermi surfaces with Chern numbers differing by an odd integer. Using tight-binding models, we demonstrate spinor superconducting orders with monopole charges , featuring a single gap node and nontrivial surface states. Additionally, the superfluid velocity follows a fractionalized Mermin-Ho relation in spatially inhomogeneous pairing orders. The concept extends to spinor density waves and excitons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.09579,
title = {Berry Phase Enforced Spinor Pairing Order},
author = {Yi Li and Grayson R. Frazier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.09579},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
This article supersedes arXiv:2001.05984. Accepted as Letter to Phys. Rev. Research (2026)