Emergent superfluidity of hard-core excitons in single-layer breathing-kagome
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- Bose-Hubbard model to an effective XXZ spin- 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.