Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Two-dimensional chiral topological superconductivity in Shiba lattices

  • Jian Li,
  • Titus Neupert,
  • Zhijun Wang,
  • A. H. MacDonald,
  • A. Yazdani,
  • B. Andrei Bernevig

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12297
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Chiral p-wave superconductors may form the basis for topological quantum computers however one has yet to be identified. Here, the authors propose that such a state may be created by a two-dimensional array of magnetic adatoms on the surface of a superconductor with strong spin-orbit coupling.