S. Gassner et al. propose using light pulses to drive a centrosymmetric s-wave superconductor with strong spin-orbit coupling into a metastable triplet p-wave superconductor with non-trivial topology. The two superconducting orders must be closely competing in equilibrium and the light pulse must break a generalized, dynamic form of inversion symmetry.
- Steven Gassner
- Clara S. Weber
- Martin Claassen