Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
Majorana zero modes in impurity-assisted vortex of LiFeAs superconductor
- Lingyuan Kong,
- Lu Cao,
- Shiyu Zhu,
- Michał Papaj,
- Guangyang Dai,
- Geng Li,
- Peng Fan,
- Wenyao Liu,
- Fazhi Yang,
- Xiancheng Wang,
- Shixuan Du,
- Changqing Jin,
- Liang Fu,
- Hong-Jun Gao,
- Hong Ding
Affiliations
- Lingyuan Kong
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Lu Cao
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shiyu Zhu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Michał Papaj
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
- Guangyang Dai
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Geng Li
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Peng Fan
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wenyao Liu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Fazhi Yang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Xiancheng Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shixuan Du
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Changqing Jin
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Liang Fu
- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
- Hong-Jun Gao
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hong Ding
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24372-6
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 11
Abstract
Despite the discovery of Majorana zero modes (MZM) in iron-based superconductors, sample inhomogeneity may destroy MZMs during braiding. Here, authors observe MZM in impurity-assisted vortices due to tuning of the bulk Dirac fermions in a homogeneous superconductor LiFeAs.
