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Superconducting heterostructures with spin-active materials have emerged as promising platforms for engineering topological superconductors featuring Majorana bound states at surfaces, edges and vortices. Here we present a method for…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-08-09 Jens Michelsen , Roland Grein

Chains of magnetic atoms, placed on the surface of s-wave superconductors, have been established as a laboratory for the study of Majorana bound states. In such systems, the breaking of time reversal due to magnetic moments gives rise to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-16 Andreas Kreisel , Timo Hyart , Bernd Rosenow

We propose a theoretical framework for generating gapless topological superconductivity (GTSC) hosting Majorana flat edge modes (MFEMs) in the presence of a two-dimensional (2D) array of magnetic adatoms with noncollinear spin texture…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-05-06 Minakshi Subhadarshini , Amartya Pal , Pritam Chatterjee , Arijit Saha

We introduce a one-dimensional non-Hermitian Kitaev chain with staggered imbalance in the $p$-wave superconducting pairing. By tuning the chemical potential and the pairing imbalance, we find that the eigenenergy spectrum undergoes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xiao-Jue Zhang , Rong Lü , Qi-Bo Zeng

Magnetic chains on superconducting systems have emerged as a platform for realization of Majorana bound states (MBSs) in condensed matter systems with possible applications to topological quantum computation. In this work we study the MBSs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Raphael L. R. C. Teixeira , Dushko Kuzmanovski , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

The search for topological superconductors has recently become a key issue in condensed matter physics, because of their possible relevance to provide a platform for Majorana bound states, non-Abelian statistics, and fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-29 Lars Elster , Christian Platt , Ronny Thomale , Werner Hanke , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Spin chains proximitized with superconducting condensates have emerged as one of the most promising platforms for the realization of Majorana modes. Here, we craft diluted spin chains atom-by-atom following seminal theoretical proposal…

We theoretically study a possible topological superconductivity in the interacting two layers of Rashba systems, which can be fabricated by the hetero-structures of semiconductors and oxides. The hybridization, which induces the gap in the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-04-09 Sho Nakosai , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

We theoretically consider the effect of a spatially periodic modulation of the superconducting order parameter on the formation of Majorana fermions induced by a one-dimensional system with magnetic impurities brought into close proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 Silas Hoffman , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Topological superconductors can support localized Majorana states at their boundaries. These quasi-particle excitations have non-Abelian statistics that can be used to encode and manipulate quantum information in a topologically protected…

Motivated by recent proposals to realize Majorana bound states in chains and arrays of magnetic atoms deposited on top of a superconductor, we study the topological properties of various chain structures, ladders and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kim Pöyhönen , Alex Westström , Joel Röntynen , Teemu Ojanen

There have been several proposals for platforms sustaining topological superconductivity in high temperature superconductors, in order to make use of the larger superconducting gap and the expected robustness of Majorana zero modes towards…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-29 Mainak Pal , Andreas Kreisel , P. J. Hirschfeld

Magnet-superconductor hybrid (MSH) structures represent one of the most promising platforms to realize, control and manipulate Majorana modes using scanning tunneling methods. By depositing either chains or islands of magnetic atoms on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Crawford , Eric Mascot , Dirk K. Morr , Stephan Rachel

Topological states of matter support quantized nondissipative responses and exotic quantum particles that cannot be accessed in common materials. The exceptional properties and application potential of topological materials have triggered a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Kim Pöyhönen , Isac Sahlberg , Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

Topological superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional systems is a novel phase of matter with possible implications for quantum computation. Despite years of effort, a definitive signature of this phase in experiments is still debated. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-12 Omri Lesser , Andrew Saydjari , Marie Wesson , Amir Yacoby , Yuval Oreg

In this paper, we establish that Majorana zero modes emerging from a topological band structure of a chain of magnetic atoms embedded in a superconductor can be distinguished from trivial localized zero energy states that may accidentally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Jian Li , Sangjun Jeon , Yonglong Xie , Ali Yazdani , B. Andrei Bernevig

Searching topological states in artificial systems has recently become a rapidly growing field of research. Meanwhile, significant experimental progresses on observing topological phenomena have been made in superconducting circuits.…

For the past decade, Majorana quasiparticles have become one of the hot topics in condensed matter research. Besides the fundamental interest in the realization of particles being their own antiparticles, going back to basic concepts of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Stephan Rachel , Roland Wiesendanger

The possibility of inducing topological superconductivity with cuprate high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) is studied for various heterostructures. We first consider a ballistic planar junction between a HTSC and a metallic ferromagnet.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-05 So Takei , Benjamin M. Fregoso , Victor Galitski , S. Das Sarma

It is commonly assumed that topological phase transitions in topological superconductors are accompanied by a closing of the topological gap or a change of the symmetry of the system. We demonstrate that an unconventional topological phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-16 Maciej M. Maśka , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Aksel Kobiałka , Tadeusz Domański