Edge universality in Floquet sideband spectra
Abstract
We show that, for non-interacting fermions under a monochromatic phase drive (Tien--Gordon regime), the outgoing sideband occupations at a sharp Fermi edge are governed by the discrete Bessel kernel -- an exact result at any drive amplitude~. In the large-amplitude regime the edge of this kernel converges, on the scale, to the Airy kernel of random matrix theory. This universality has a direct transport consequence: the deficit of the photo-assisted shot-noise slope from its high-bias plateau collapses onto the Airy-kernel diagonal. The derivation rests on a bridge between the linear detection chain and the Floquet scattering matrix: commensurate gating isolates a single coherence-order block of the one-body correlator. We identify the crossover temperature below which the Airy scaling is sharp, extend the analysis to biased two-terminal occupations, and argue that multi-tone drives make Pearcey-kernel cusps accessible in Floquet--Sambe space.
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@article{arxiv.2604.05244,
title = {Edge universality in Floquet sideband spectra},
author = {Miguel Tierz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05244},
year = {2026}
}
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31 pages, 7 figures