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    Quench-Induced Floquet Topologicalﾠp-Wave Superfluids
    (American Physical Society, 2014) Foster, Matthew S.; Gurarie, Victor; Dzero, Maxim; Yuzbashyan, Emil A.
    Ultracold atomic gases in two dimensions tuned close to a p-wave Feshbach resonance were expected to exhibit topological superfluidity, but these were found to be experimentally unstable. We show that one can induce a topological Floquet superfluid if weakly interacting atoms are brought suddenly close (“quenched”) to such a resonance, in the time before the instability kicks in. The resulting superfluid possesses Majorana edge modes, yet differs from a conventional Floquet system as it is not driven externally. Instead, the periodic modulation is self-generated by the dynamics.