Floquet engineering of long-range p-wave superconductivity

被引:82
作者
Benito, M. [1 ]
Gomez-Leon, A. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Bastidas, V. M. [4 ]
Brandes, T. [4 ]
Platero, G. [1 ]
机构
[1] CSIC, Inst Ciencia Mat, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[3] Pacific Inst Theoret Phys, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[4] Tech Univ Berlin, Inst Theoret Phys, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
关键词
HGTE QUANTUM-WELLS; MAJORANA FERMIONS; NANOWIRE; INSULATOR; CONDUCTANCE; SIGNATURE; STATES; CHAIN; PHASE; TIME;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.90.205127
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Floquet Majorana fermions appear as steady states at the boundary of time-periodic topological phases of matter. In this work, we theoretically study the main features of these exotic topological phases in the periodically driven one-dimensional Kitaev model. By controlling the ac fields, we can predict topological phase transitions that should give rise to signatures of Majorana states in experiments. Moreover, the knowledge of the time dependence of these Majorana states allows one to manipulate them. Our work contains a complete analysis of the monochromatic driving in different frequency regimes.
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