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Through a systematic symmetry and topology analysis we establish that three-dimensional chiral superconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling and odd-parity pairing generically host low-energy nodal quasiparticles that are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-07 Vladyslav Kozii , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Liang Fu

Majorana fermion (MF) excitations in solid state system have non-Abelian statistics which is essential for topological quantum computation. Previous proposals to realize MF, however, generally requires fine-tuning of parameters. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Hoi-Yin Hui , P. M. R. Brydon , Jay D. Sau , S. Tewari , S. Das Sarma

Majorana fermions are often proposed to be realized by first singling out one Fermi surface without spin degeneracy via spin-orbit coupling, and then imposing boundaries or defects. In this work, we take a different route starting with two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-04 Wang Yang , Chao Xu , Congjun Wu

We consider a superconducting film exchange-coupled to a close-by chiral magnetic layer and study how magnetic skyrmions can induce the formation of Majorana bound states (MBS) in the superconductor. Inspired by a proposal by Yang et al.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-08-09 Stefan Rex , Igor V. Gornyi , Alexander D. Mirlin

We calculate the spatially resolved tunneling conductance of topological superconductors (TSCs) based on ferromagnetic chains, measured by means of spin-polarised scanning tunneling microscopy (SPSTM). Our analysis reveals novel signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Panagiotis Kotetes , Daniel Mendler , Andreas Heimes , Gerd Schön

We propose a novel heterostructure to achieve chiral topological superconductivity in 2D. A substrate with a large Rashba spin-orbit coupling energy is brought in proximity to a twisted bilayer of thin films exfoliated from a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-12-14 Gilad Margalit , Binghai Yan , Marcel Franz , 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

Recent progress in constructing supramolecular assemblies with hierarchical chirality offers new opportunities to investigate the chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect and its potential applications. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Song Chen , Kai-Yuan Zhang , Xi Sun , Shu-Zheng Zhou , Hua-Hua Fu

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic systems possess versatile magnetic order and can host tunable magnons carrying spin angular momenta. Recent advances show angular momentum can also be carried by lattice vibrations in the form of chiral…

The external controllability of topological superconductors and Majorana fermions would be important both for fundamental and practical interests. Here we predict the electric-field control of Majorana fermions in two-dimensional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-07 Jing Wang

In this work, we perform a systematic investigation of the correlated topological superconductors (TSCs), especially their non-trivial Majorana zero modes (MZMs). Compared to the non-interacting MZMs, the emerged correlated MZMs become…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-07 Ziyue Qi , Hongming Weng , Kun Jiang

Motivated by a recent experiment in which zero-bias peaks have been observed in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments performed on chains of magnetic atoms on a superconductor, we show, by generalizing earlier work, that a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-17 Eugene Dumitrescu , Brenden Roberts , Sumanta Tewari , Jay D. Sau , S. Das Sarma

Recent experiments have provided evidence for chiral charge order in Kagome superconductors (SCs). This intriguing possibility motivates us to unveil the first pathway to engineer topological superconductivity by harnessing the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-31 Jun-Ang Wang , Sen Zhou , Panagiotis Kotetes

Majorana fermions exist on the boundaries of two-dimensional topological superconductors (TSCs) as charge-neutral quasi-particles. The neutrality makes the detection of such states challenging from both experimental and theoretical points…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-06-30 James Jun He , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

A number of recent works have discussed the issue of spin polarization of a Majorana zero mode in condensed matter systems. Here we show that the spin polarization density of a Majorana zero mode, computed as an average of the spin operator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Tudor D. Stanescu , Sumanta Tewari

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) is a striking quantum phenomenon in which electron transport through chiral molecules leads to spin polarization -- even in the absence of external magnetic fields or magnetic components. Although…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Shiv Upadhyay , Xuechen Zheng , Tian Wang , Agam Shayit , Jun Liu , Dali Sun , Xiaosong Li

Recently, chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) has been observed in chiral molecules and is attractive for application in magnetoresistance (MR) devices. In this study, we fabricate CISS-based nanodevices consisting of chiral molecules…

We report chirality-induced current-in-plane magnetoresistance (CIP-MR) in chiral molecule/ferromagnetic metal bilayer at room temperature. The previously reported chiralityinduced current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistance (CPP-MR)…

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

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