• DOI:10.1126/science.1259327
Corpus ID: 206561257

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}
}

S. Nadj-Perge, I. Drozdov, +6 authors A. Yazdani

Published 2014

Physics, Medicine

Science

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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