Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Topological superconductivity in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

  • Yi-Ting Hsu,
  • Abolhassan Vaezi,
  • Mark H. Fischer,
  • Eun-Ah Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14985
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Conditions to realize topological superconductivity have long been known, but the materialization remains rare. Here, Hsuet al. report a strategy towards possible topological superconductivity in monolayer hole-doped transition metal dichalcogenide by splitting the spin degeneracy in momentum space.