Time-quasiperiodic topological superconductors with Majorana multiplexing

Yang Peng; Gil Refael

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.98.220509

← Back to search

Time-quasiperiodic topological superconductors with Majorana multiplexing

Yang Peng, Gil Refael

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.220509 · Physical Review B

T1

Active bibliographic source — not scientific approval

Bibliographic access preserves source history; it does not approve extracted materials or validate reported claims. Review warnings on each occurrence separately.

Abstract

Time-quasiperiodic Majoranas are generalizations of Floquet Majoranas in time-quasiperiodic superconducting systems. We show that in a system driven at d mutually irrational frequencies, there are up to 2d types of such Majoranas, coexisting despite spatial overlap and lack of time-translational invariance. Although the quasienergy spectrum is dense in such systems, the time-quasiperiodic Majoranas can be stable and robust against resonances due to localization in periodic-drive-induced synthetic dimensions. This is demonstrated in a time-quasiperiodic Kitaev chain driven at two frequencies. We further relate the existence of multiple Majoranas in a time-quasiperiodic system to the time-quasicrystal phase introduced recently. These time-quasiperiodic Majoranas open a possibility for braiding which will be pursued in the future.