Floquet engineering of point-gapped topological superconductors
Abstract
Non-Hermitian systems exhibit two distinct topological classifications based on their gap structure: line-gap and point-gap topologies. Although point-gap topology is intrinsic to non-Hermitian systems, its systematic construction remains a challenge. Here, we present the Floquet engineering approach for realizing point-gapped topological superconductors. By combining Floquet theory with particle-hole symmetry (PHS), we show that a point gap hosting robust Majorana edge modes emerges at the overlap of Floquet bands with opposite winding numbers. In the thermodynamic limit, even weak non-Hermiticity opens a point gap from a gapless spectrum, driving a topological phase transition and breaking non-Bloch parity-time () symmetry. This transition is accompanied by the appearance of the Floquet skin effect. Furthermore, the point-gapped topological phase and the non-Bloch symmetry exhibit size-dependent phenomena driven by the critical skin effect. Our work offers a new pathway for exploring the point-gapped topological phases in non-Hermitian systems.
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@article{arxiv.2501.12129,
title = {Floquet engineering of point-gapped topological superconductors},
author = {Xiang Ji and Hao Geng and Naeem Akhtar and Xiaosen Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12129},
year = {2025}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures