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    Emergent superfluidity of hard-core excitons in single-layer breathing-kagome Nb3TexCl8−x

    Mahtab A. Khan1,2 and Michael N. Leuenberger1,3,*

    • *Contact author: michael.leuenberger@ucf.edu

    Phys. Rev. B 114, 105130 – Published 19 August, 2026

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/t4g3-4gcs

    Abstract

    We develop a microscopic theory of superfluidity for hard-core dark excitons on the triangular lattice by mapping the large-U Bose-Hubbard model to an effective XXZ spin-12 Hamiltonian including virtual hopping processes. Within this framework, we identify the superfluid phase that emerges between the two Mott-insulating endpoints at fillings 0 and 1, and derive its mean-field structure via a canted-spin solution. We then construct the corresponding continuum Landau-Ginzburg (LG) functional and analyze phase fluctuations and vortex dynamics. In two dimensions, the superfluid-normal transition is shown to be governed by a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) mechanism with a stiffness determined by microscopic parameters. Our results provide a unified description connecting lattice-scale exciton dynamics to continuum critical behavior in triangular geometries.

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