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 …

Evidence for Majorana bound states in an iron-based superconductor

D Wang, L Kong, P Fan, H Chen, S Zhu, W Liu, L Cao… - Science, 2018 - science.org
The search for Majorana bound states (MBSs) has been fueled by the prospect of using their
non-Abelian statistics for robust quantum computation. Two-dimensional superconducting …

Robust and Clean Majorana Zero Mode in the Vortex Core of High-Temperature Superconductor

Q Liu, C Chen, T Zhang, R Peng, YJ Yan, CHP Wen… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
The Majorana fermion, which is its own antiparticle and obeys non-Abelian statistics, plays a
critical role in topological quantum computing. It can be realized as a bound state at zero …

Half-integer level shift of vortex bound states in an iron-based superconductor

L Kong, S Zhu, M Papaj, H Chen, L Cao, H Isobe… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Vortices in topological superconductors may host Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which have
been proposed as the building blocks of fault-tolerant topological quantum computers …

Detection of Majorana zero mode in the vortex

HH Sun, JF Jia - npj Quantum Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Majorana zero modes, which behave like Majorana fermions, are quasiparticle excitations in
condensed matter systems. They obey non-Abelian statistics, and have been proposed as …

Controlling the bound states in a quantum-dot hybrid nanowire

A Ptok, A Kobiałka, T Domański - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Recent experiments using the quantum dot coupled to the topological superconducting
nanowire [Deng et al., Science 354, 1557 (2016) 10.1126/science. aaf3961] revealed that …

Scalable Majorana vortex modes in iron-based superconductors

CK Chiu, T Machida, Y Huang, T Hanaguri… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The iron-based superconductor FeTe x Se1− x is one of the material candidates hosting
Majorana vortex modes residing in the vortex cores. It has been observed by recent …

Competing vortex topologies in iron-based superconductors

LH Hu, X Wu, CX Liu, RX Zhang - Physical review letters, 2022 - APS
In this Letter, we establish a new theoretical paradigm for vortex Majorana physics in the
recently discovered topological iron-based superconductors (TFeSCs). While TFeSCs are …

Searching for Majorana quasiparticles at vortex cores in iron-based superconductors

T Machida, T Hanaguri - Progress of Theoretical and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The unambiguous detection of the Majorana zero mode (MZM), which is essential for future
topological quantum computing, has been a challenge in recent condensed matter …

Observation of Distinct Spatial Distributions of the Zero and Nonzero Energy Vortex Modes in

T Zhang, W Bao, C Chen, D Li, Z Lu, Y Hu, W Yang… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The energy and spatial distributions of vortex bound state in superconductors carry
important information about superconducting pairing and the electronic structure. Although …