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固体物理セミナー

（平成２７年度　第1回）

　(インタラクティブ物質科学カデットプログラム講演会)

 

Time: 13:00-14:30, 11th (Mon) May, 2015

Place: A304 (3F of Buld. A, Graduate School of Engineering Science)

Lecturer: Prof. Pedro D. Sacramento (CeFEMA-IST, Univ. de Lisboa)

Title：Topological superconductors:

Fate of Majorana fermions after a quantum quench

abstract:

The stability of Majorana fermions at the edges of a two-dimensional topological superconductor after a quantum quench is studied. Both instantaneous and slow quenches are considered. In the case of instantaneous quenches, the Majorana modes generally decay, but for a finite system there is a revival time that scales to infinity as the system size grows. Exceptions to this decaying behavior are found in some cases such as due to the presence of edge states with the same momentum in the final state. It is shown that the Chern number remains invariant after the quench, until the propagation of the mode along the transverse direction reaches the middle point. The effect of varying the rate of change in slow quenches is also analyzed.

A periodic driving is also considered. In this work we consider triplet and singlet superconductors subject to periodic variations of the chemical potential, spin-orbit coupling and magnetization in both topologically trivial and nontrivial phases, and study their influence on the charge and spin currents that propagate along the edges of the two-dimensional system. Also, we study the spin polarization of the Floquet spectrum quasi- energies and show their nontrivial behavior.

 

問合先：藤本　聡　（基礎工Ｄ棟411号室）

Tel:06-6850-6440, E-mail:fuji@mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

※固体物理セミナーは、物性・未来（物性系）Ｍ２必修科目「ゼミナールIII」に該当します。