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Recent years have seen a strong interest in topological effects within periodically driven systems. In this work, we explore topological effects in two closely related 2-dimensional driven systems described by Floquet operators possessing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Derek Y. H. Ho , Jiangbin Gong

An interplay between pairing and topological orders has been predicted to give rise to superconducting states supporting exotic emergent particles, such as Majorana particles obeying non-Abelian braid statistics. We consider a system of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-10 Jonathan Schirmer , C. -X. Liu , J. K. Jain

We study the \emph{orbital effects} of the synthetic magnetic fields in an interacting square lattice two-leg fermionic ladder model with the number-conserving pair hopping that hosting the Majorana bound states. By utilizing density matrix…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-04 Chun Chen , Wei Yan , C. S. Ting , Yan Chen

Quantum systems can show qualitatively new forms of behavior when they are driven by fast time-periodic modulations. In the limit of large driving frequency, the long-time dynamics of such systems can often be described by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-01 N. Goldman , J. Dalibard , M. Aidelsburger , N. R. Cooper

We study one-component fermions in chain lattices with proximity-induced superconducting gap and interparticle short-range interaction, capable of hosting Majorana fermions. By systematically tracking various physical quantities, we show…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-22 Y. -H. Chan , Ching-Kai Chiu , Kuei Sun

We prove that quantum information encoded in some topological excitations, including certain Majorana zero modes, is protected in closed systems for a time scale exponentially long in system parameters. This protection holds even at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-12-20 Dominic V. Else , Paul Fendley , Jack Kemp , Chetan Nayak

Recently there has been much effort in understanding topological phases of matter with gapless bulk excitations, which are characterized by topological invariants and protected intrinsic boundary states. Here we show that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Robert Schaffer , Eric Kin-Ho Lee , Yuan-Ming Lu , Yong Baek Kim

We study the topological dynamics by iterations of a piecewise continuous, non linear and locally contractive map in a real finite dimensional compact ball. We consider those maps satisfying the "separation property": different continuity…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-06-22 Eleonora Catsigeras , Ruben Budelli

We show how Floquet Majorana fermions may be experimentally realized by periodic driving of a solid-state platform. The system comprises a planar Josephson junction made of a proximitized heterostructure containing a 2D electron gas (2DEG)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Dillon T. Liu , Javad Shabani , Aditi Mitra

We extend the notions of multipole and subsystem symmetries to more general {\it spatially modulated} symmetries. We uncover two instances with exponential and (quasi)-periodic modulations, and provide simple microscopic models in one, two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-19 Pablo Sala , Julius Lehmann , Tibor Rakovszky , Frank Pollmann

The remarkable properties and potential applications of Majorana fermions have led to considerable efforts in recent years to realize topological matters that host these excitations. For a number-conserving system, there have been a few…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-10 X. Y. Yin , Tin-Lun Ho , Xiaoling Cui

The topological orders in amorphous systems that lack crystalline symmetry have gained considerable attention recently. Here we propose the Floquet amorphous topological matter, among which the topological orders are explored in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Peng He , Jing-Xin Liu , Hong Wu , Z. D. Wang

We analyse quasi-periodically driven quantum systems that can be mapped exactly to periodically driven ones and find Floquet Time Spirals in analogy with spatially incommensurate spiral magnetic states. Generalising the mechanism to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-09 Hongzheng Zhao , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

We have introduced a novel Majorana representation of S=1/2 spins using the Jordan-Wigner transformation and have shown that a generalized spin model of Kitaev defined on a brick-wall lattice is equivalent to a model of non-interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao-Yong Feng , Guang-Ming Zhang , Tao Xiang

Floquet Majorana Fermions appear as steady states at the boundary of time-periodic topological phases of matter. In this work, we theoretically study the main features of these exotic topological phases in the periodically driven…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-01-13 Mónica Benito , Álvaro Gómez-León , Victor Bastidas , Tobias Brandes , Gloria Platero

In this review we present some of the work done in India in the area of driven and out-of-equilibrium systems with topological phases. After presenting some well-known examples of topological systems in one and two dimensions, we discuss…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Sourav Bhattacharjee , Diptiman Sen

Motivated by the recent Ge hole spin qubit experiments, we construct and study a two-leg spin ladder from a quantum dot array with spin-orbit couplings (SOCs), aiming to uncover the many-body phase diagrams and provide concrete guidance for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-13 Yang-Zhi Chou , Sankar Das Sarma

We experimentally observe Floquet Raman transitions in the weakly driven solid state spin system of nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. The periodically driven spin system simulates a two-band Wannier-Stark ladder model, and allows us to…

One-dimensional topological superconductors are known to host Majorana zero modes at domain walls terminating the topological phase. Their nonabelian nature allows for processing quantum information by braiding operations which are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Torsten Karzig , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

We investigate the topological phase diagram of {an extension of the Haldane model with equal spin pairing superconductivity}. In two dimensions, we find a topological nodal superconducting phase, which exhibits a chiral Majorana mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Simone Traverso , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Maura Sassetti , Fernando Dominguez