par Defossez, Anais
;Vanderstraeten, Laurens
;Peralta Gavensky, Lucila
;Goldman, Nathan 
Référence Physical Review Research, 7, 023183
Publication Publié, 2025-05-01




Référence Physical Review Research, 7, 023183
Publication Publié, 2025-05-01
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | We present a scheme to realize a topological superconducting system supporting Majorana zero modes, within a number-conserving framework suitable for optical-lattice experiments. Our approach builds on the engineering of pair-hopping processes on a ladder geometry, using a sequence of pulses that activate single-particle hopping in a time-periodic manner. We demonstrate that this dynamic setting is well captured by an effective Hamiltonian that preserves the parity symmetry, a key requirement for the stabilization of Majorana zero modes. The phase diagram of our system is determined using a bosonization theory, which is then validated by a numerical study of the topological bulk gap and entanglement spectrum using matrix product states. Our results indicate that Majorana zero modes can be stabilized in a large parameter space, accessible in optical-lattice experiments. |