Majorana zero modes in impurity-assisted vortex of LiFeAs superconductor

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24372-6