Kumari Rekha, Seradjeh Babak, Kundu Arijit
Department of Physics, <a href="https://ror.org/05pjsgx75">Indian institute of technology</a>, Kanpur, India.
Department of Physics, <a href="https://ror.org/01kg8sb98">Indiana University</a>, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2024 Nov 8;133(19):196601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.196601.
We theoretically study the transport signatures of unpaired Floquet Majorana fermions in the Josephson current of weakly linked, periodically driven topological superconductors. We obtain analytical expressions for the occupation of the Floquet Majorana fermions in the presence of weak coupling to thermal reservoirs, and show that, similar to undriven topological superconductors, for sufficiently low temperatures and large systems the Josephson current involving Floquet Majorana fermions is 4π-periodic in the phase difference across the junction and depends linearly on the coupling between superconductors. Moreover, unlike the static case, the amplitude of the Josephson current can be tuned by setting the unbiased chemical potential of the driven superconductors at multiple harmonics of the drive frequency. As a result, we uncover a "Josephson Floquet sum rule" for driven superconductors. We confirm our analytical expressions for Josephson current, the occupation of Floquet bands, and a perturbative analysis of the quasienergies with numerically exact results.
我们从理论上研究了弱连接、周期性驱动的拓扑超导体的约瑟夫森电流中未配对的弗洛凯马约拉纳费米子的输运特征。我们得到了在与热库存在弱耦合情况下弗洛凯马约拉纳费米子占据情况的解析表达式,并表明,与未驱动的拓扑超导体类似,对于足够低的温度和大系统,涉及弗洛凯马约拉纳费米子的约瑟夫森电流在结两端的相位差上是4π周期的,并且线性依赖于超导体之间的耦合。此外,与静态情况不同,约瑟夫森电流的幅度可以通过将驱动超导体的无偏化学势设置在驱动频率的多个谐波处来调节。结果,我们发现了驱动超导体的“约瑟夫森弗洛凯求和规则”。我们用数值精确结果证实了我们关于约瑟夫森电流、弗洛凯能带占据情况的解析表达式以及准能量的微扰分析。