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Floquet engineering of point-gapped topological superconductors

Superconductivity 2025-10-14 v1 Quantum Physics

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 (PT\mathcal{PT}) symmetry. This transition is accompanied by the appearance of the Floquet Z2Z_2 skin effect. Furthermore, the point-gapped topological phase and the non-Bloch PT\mathcal{PT} 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