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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 ±1/2\pm 1/2, 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.

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@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)

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