Engineered platforms for topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes

K Flensberg, F von Oppen, A Stern - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Among the major avenues that are being pursued for realizing quantum bits, the Majorana-
based approach has been the most recent to be launched. It attempts to realize qubits that …

Exotic superconducting states in FeSe-based materials

T Shibauchi, T Hanaguri, Y Matsuda - Journal of the Physical Society …, 2020 - journals.jps.jp
High-temperature superconductivity and a wide variety of exotic superconducting states
discovered in FeSe-based materials have been at the frontier of research on condensed …

The second quantum revolution: role and challenges of molecular chemistry

M Atzori, R Sessoli - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2019 - ACS Publications
Implementation of modern Quantum Technologies might benefit from the remarkable
quantum properties shown by molecular spin systems. In this Perspective, we highlight the …

Topological superconductivity in a van der Waals heterostructure

S Kezilebieke, MN Huda, V Vaňo, M Aapro, SC Ganguli… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Exotic states such as topological insulators, superconductors and quantum spin liquids are
often challenging or impossible to create in a single material,–. For example, it is unclear …

Zero-energy vortex bound state in the superconducting topological surface state of Fe (Se, Te)

T Machida, Y Sun, S Pyon, S Takeda, Y Kohsaka… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Majorana quasiparticles in condensed matter are important for topological quantum
computing,–, but remain elusive. Vortex cores of topological superconductors may …

Topological Shiba bands in artificial spin chains on superconductors

L Schneider, P Beck, T Posske, D Crawford, E Mascot… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
A major challenge in developing topological superconductors for implementing topological
quantum computing is their characterization and control. It has been proposed that ap-wave …

Evidence of topological boundary modes with topological nodal-point superconductivity

AK Nayak, A Steinbok, Y Roet, J Koo, G Margalit… - Nature physics, 2021 - nature.com
Topological superconductors are an essential component for topologically protected
quantum computation and information processing. Although signatures of topological …

Creating designer quantum states of matter atom-by-atom

AA Khajetoorians, D Wegner, AF Otte, I Swart - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Advances in high-resolution and spin-resolved scanning tunnelling microscopy, as well as
atomic-scale manipulation, have enabled the bottom-up, atom-by-atom creation and …

Evidence for dispersing 1D Majorana channels in an iron-based superconductor

Z Wang, JO Rodriguez, L Jiao, S Howard, M Graham… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The possible realization of Majorana fermions as quasiparticle excitations in condensed-
matter physics has created much excitement. Most studies have focused on Majorana bound …

Detecting and distinguishing Majorana zero modes with the scanning tunnelling microscope

B Jäck, Y Xie, A Yazdani - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
One of the most exciting areas of research in quantum condensed matter physics is the push
to create topologically protected qubits using non-Abelian anyons. The focus of these efforts …