Recent experiments on Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) deposited on monolayer WSe2 revealed robust, ultra-clean superconductivity coexisting with sizable induced spin-orbit coupling. Here we propose BLG/WSe2 as a platform to engineer gate-defined planar topological Josephson junctions, where the normal and superconducting regions descend from a common material. More precisely, we show that if superconductivity in BLG/WSe2 is gapped and emerges from a parent state with inter-valley coherence, then Majorana zero modes can form in the barrier region upon applying weak in-plane magnetic fields. Our results spotlight a potential pathway for `internally engineered' topological superconductivity that minimizes detrimental disorder and orbital-magnetic-field effects.
@article{arxiv.2304.11807,
title = {Gate-Defined Topological Josephson Junctions in Bernal Bilayer Graphene},
author = {Ying-Ming Xie and Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise and Andrea F. Young and Stevan Nadj-Perge and Jason Alicea},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11807},
year = {2023}
}