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Time evolution of Majorana corner modes in Floquet second-order topological superconductor

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2023-02-01 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

We propose a practically feasible time-periodic sinusoidal drive protocol in onsite mass term to generate the two-dimensional~(2D) Floquet second-order topological superconductor, hosting both the regular 00- and anomalous π\pi-Majorana corner modes~(MCMs) while starting from a static 2D topological insulator/dd-wave superconductor heterostructure setup. We theoretically study the local density spectra and the time dynamics of MCMs in the presence of such drive. The dynamical MCMs are topologically characterized by employing the average quadrupolar motion. Furthermore, we employ the Floquet perturbation theory~(FPT) in the strong driving amplitude limit to provide analytical insight into the problem. We compare our exact (numerical), and the FPT results in terms of the eigenvalue spectra and the time dynamics of the MCMs. We emphasize that the agreement between the exact numerical and the FPT results are more prominent in the higher frequency regime for close to the 00-quasi-energy mode.

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@article{arxiv.2208.05749,
  title  = {Time evolution of Majorana corner modes in Floquet second-order topological superconductor},
  author = {Arnob Kumar Ghosh and Tanay Nag and Arijit Saha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.05749},
  year   = {2023}
}

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