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Proposal for Creating a Spin-polarized p_x+ip_y State and Majorana Fermions

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2009-07-23 v2

Abstract

The spin polarized p_x + ip_y superconductor is known to support Majorana states but so far there has been no example. We propose a simple setup to create such a state by depositing a ferromagnetic metal on a non-centrosymmetric superconductor with strong spin-orbit coupling which contains a Rashba-type term.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2681,
  title  = {Proposal for Creating a Spin-polarized p_x+ip_y State and Majorana Fermions},
  author = {Patrick A. Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2681},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Added references to earlier work by Sato and Fujimoto and comments on the requirement of 2D vs quasi-2D