Dissipation induced Majarona $0$- and $π$-modes in a driven Rashba nanowire

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10271v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:40:53 GMT
• Title: Dissipation induced Majarona $0$- and $π$-modes in a driven Rashba nanowire
• Abstract summary: We investigate a periodically driven Rashba nanowire in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor in a dissipative background.<n>We show that the system exhibits edge-localized topological Majorana $0$-modes (MZMs) and $pi$-modes (MPMs)
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• Abstract: Periodic drive is an intriguing way of creating topological phases in a non-topological setup. However, most systems are often studied as a closed system, despite being always in contact with the environment, which induces dissipation. Here, we investigate a periodically driven Rashba nanowire in proximity to an $s$-wave superconductor in a dissipative background. The system's dynamics is governed by a periodic Liouvillian operator, from which we construct the Liouvillian time-evolution operator and use the third-quantization method to obtain the `Floquet damping matrix', which captures the spectral and topological properties of the system. We show that the system exhibits edge-localized topological Majorana $0$-modes (MZMs) and $\pi$-modes (MPMs). Additionally, the system also supports a trivial $0$-modes (TZMs) and $\pi$-modes (TPMs), which are also localized at the edges of the system. The MZMs and the MPMs are connected to the bulk topology and carry a bulk topological invariant, while the emergence of TZMs and TPMs is primarily tied to exceptional points and is topologically trivial. We study the topological phase diagrams in terms of the topological invariants and show that the dissipation can modify the topological phase diagram substantially and even induce topological phases in the system. Our work extends the understanding of a driven-dissipative topological superconductor.

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