Time-dependent Gutzwiller simulation of Floquet topological superconductivity

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Main Authors: Anan, Takahiro, Morimoto, Takahiro, Kitamura, Sota
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Published: 2023
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author Anan, Takahiro
Morimoto, Takahiro
Kitamura, Sota
author_facet Anan, Takahiro
Morimoto, Takahiro
Kitamura, Sota
contents Periodically driven systems provide a novel route to control the topology of quantum materials. In particular, Floquet theory allows an effective band description of periodically-driven systems through the Floquet Hamiltonian. Here, we study the time evolution of $d$-wave superconductors irradiated with intense circularly-polarized laser light. We consider the Floquet $t$-$J$ model with time-periodic interactions, and investigate its mean-field dynamics by formulating the time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation. We observe the development of the $id_{xy}$-wave pairing amplitude along with the original $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave order upon gradual increasing of the field amplitude. We further numerically construct the Floquet Hamiltonian for the steady state, with which we identify the system as the fully-gapped $d+id$ superconducting phase with a nonzero Chern number. We explore the low-frequency regime where the perturbative approaches in the previous studies break down, and find that the topological gap of an experimentally-accessible size can be achieved at much lower laser intensities.
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spellingShingle Time-dependent Gutzwiller simulation of Floquet topological superconductivity
Anan, Takahiro
Morimoto, Takahiro
Kitamura, Sota
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Superconductivity
Periodically driven systems provide a novel route to control the topology of quantum materials. In particular, Floquet theory allows an effective band description of periodically-driven systems through the Floquet Hamiltonian. Here, we study the time evolution of $d$-wave superconductors irradiated with intense circularly-polarized laser light. We consider the Floquet $t$-$J$ model with time-periodic interactions, and investigate its mean-field dynamics by formulating the time-dependent Gutzwiller approximation. We observe the development of the $id_{xy}$-wave pairing amplitude along with the original $d_{x^2-y^2}$-wave order upon gradual increasing of the field amplitude. We further numerically construct the Floquet Hamiltonian for the steady state, with which we identify the system as the fully-gapped $d+id$ superconducting phase with a nonzero Chern number. We explore the low-frequency regime where the perturbative approaches in the previous studies break down, and find that the topological gap of an experimentally-accessible size can be achieved at much lower laser intensities.
title Time-dependent Gutzwiller simulation of Floquet topological superconductivity
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Superconductivity
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06069