Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor
@article{NadjPerge2014ObservationOM, title={Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor}, author={S. Nadj-Perge and I. Drozdov and J. Li and H. Chen and Sangjun Jeon and J. Seo and A. MacDonald and B. Bernevig and A. Yazdani}, journal={Science}, year={2014}, volume={346}, pages={602 - 607} }
A possible sighting of Majorana states Nearly 80 years ago, the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana proposed the existence of an unusual type of particle that is its own antiparticle, the so-called Majorana fermion. The search for a free Majorana fermion has so far been unsuccessful, but bound Majorana-like collective excitations may exist in certain exotic superconductors. Nadj-Perge et al. created such a topological superconductor by depositing iron atoms onto the surface of superconducting… CONTINUE READING
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