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Kekulé superconductivity induced by quantum geometry in Haldane phases

Yafis Barlas, Fan Zhang, and Enrico Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 2 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/k5r2-q11w

Abstract

Chiral two-dimensional electron gases, which capture the electronic properties of graphene and rhombohedral graphene systems, exhibit singular momentum-space vortices and are susceptible to interaction-induced topological Haldane phases. Here, we investigate pairing interactions in the inversion-symmetric Haldane phases of chiral two-dimensional electron gases. We demonstrate that the nontrivial band topology of the Haldane phases enhances intra-valley ($\Qq = \pm 2 \Kk_D$) pair susceptibility relative to inter-valley ($\Qq = 0$) pair susceptibility, favoring the emergence of a lattice-scale pair-density wave order. When longitudinal acoustic phonons mediate the pairing interaction, the system supports a chiral Kekul`{e} superconducting order at low densities. At higher densities, the phase diagram depends on the parity of the Chern number J. For even parity, an s-wave Kekul`{e} order appears, while for odd parity we find a $\Qq =0$ valley triplet chiral-J and a valley singlet s-wave order at different densities. Our findings are relevant to superconductivity in rhombohedral graphene and Kagome metals.

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