Braiding rule of boundary Majorana-like zero mode

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Auteurs principaux: Ma, Qiyun, He, Hailong, Xiao, Meng, Liu, Zhengyou
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author Ma, Qiyun
He, Hailong
Xiao, Meng
Liu, Zhengyou
author_facet Ma, Qiyun
He, Hailong
Xiao, Meng
Liu, Zhengyou
contents The study of topological states has become an important topic in both solid-state systems and artificial structures such as photonic crystals and phononic crystals. Among them, Majorana zero modes, which exhibit nontrivial braiding process, have attracted extensive research interest. The analog of Majorana zero modes in classical waves, or the Majorana-like zero modes (MLZMs), have also got a lot of attention recently. However, the vast majority of previous works concerned with MLZMs that were bounded to vortexes inside the bulk. Here in this work, we unveil the braiding rule of MLZMs that are tunable around the boundary of a vortex-texture Kekule modulated graphene. We show that the existence of these zero-dimensional boundary MLZMs is protected by the Zak phase of 1D boundary states. As such, we are able to construct multiple MLZMs and analyze the corresponding braiding process. In addition, we also provide an implementation scheme of the boundary MLZMs in acoustic crystals. The tunability of the boundary MLZMs proposed herein offer new freedom for topological states braiding in both solid-state systems and artificial structures.
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spellingShingle Braiding rule of boundary Majorana-like zero mode
Ma, Qiyun
He, Hailong
Xiao, Meng
Liu, Zhengyou
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The study of topological states has become an important topic in both solid-state systems and artificial structures such as photonic crystals and phononic crystals. Among them, Majorana zero modes, which exhibit nontrivial braiding process, have attracted extensive research interest. The analog of Majorana zero modes in classical waves, or the Majorana-like zero modes (MLZMs), have also got a lot of attention recently. However, the vast majority of previous works concerned with MLZMs that were bounded to vortexes inside the bulk. Here in this work, we unveil the braiding rule of MLZMs that are tunable around the boundary of a vortex-texture Kekule modulated graphene. We show that the existence of these zero-dimensional boundary MLZMs is protected by the Zak phase of 1D boundary states. As such, we are able to construct multiple MLZMs and analyze the corresponding braiding process. In addition, we also provide an implementation scheme of the boundary MLZMs in acoustic crystals. The tunability of the boundary MLZMs proposed herein offer new freedom for topological states braiding in both solid-state systems and artificial structures.
title Braiding rule of boundary Majorana-like zero mode
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00749