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Floquet Second-Order Topological Superconductor Driven via Ferromagnetic Resonance

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-11-06 v1

Abstract

We consider a Floquet triple-layer setup composed of a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interactions, proximity coupled to an s-wave superconductor and to a ferromagnet driven at resonance. The ferromagnetic layer generates a time-oscillating Zeeman field which competes with the induced superconducting gap and leads to a topological phase transition. The resulting Floquet states support a second-order topological superconducting phase with a pair of localized zero-energy Floquet Majorana corner states. Moreover, the phase diagram comprises a Floquet helical topological superconductor, hosting a Kramers pair of Majorana edge modes protected by an effective time-reversal symmetry, as well as a gapless Floquet Weyl phase. The topological phases are stable against disorder and parameter variations and are within experimental reach.

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@article{arxiv.1905.09241,
  title  = {Floquet Second-Order Topological Superconductor Driven via Ferromagnetic Resonance},
  author = {Kirill Plekhanov and Manisha Thakurathi and Daniel Loss and Jelena Klinovaja},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09241},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Main text: 6 pages, 4 figures; Supplemental Material: 7 pages, 3 figures

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