Atomic-scale interface engineering of Majorana edge modes in a 2D magnet-superconductor hybrid system

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2019
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  • Superconductors (materials)
  • Fermions
  • Topological superconducting
  • Insulators
  • Quantum Dots
  • Spin
  • Superconductors (materials)
  • Fermions
  • Topological superconducting
  • Insulators
  • Quantum Dots
  • Spin
Beschreibung:
  • Topological superconductors are predicted to harbor exotic boundary states—Majorana zero-energy modes—whose non-Abelian braiding statistics present a new paradigm for the realization of topological quantum computing. Using low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy, here, we report on the direct real-space visualization of chiral Majorana edge states in a monolayer topological superconductor, a prototypical magnet-superconductor hybrid system composed of nanoscale Fe islands of monoatomic height on a Re(0001)-O(2 × 1) surface. In particular, we demonstrate that interface engineering by an atomically thin oxide layer is crucial for driving the hybrid system into a topologically nontrivial state as confirmed by theoretical calculations of the topological invariant, the Chern number.
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  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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