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most citedEvidence for Majorana bound state in an iron-based superconductor

754 citations · 1.8k across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Parity-dependent coupling of molecular spin chains to a superconductor

Katerina Vaxevani, Jon Ortuzar, Stefano Trivini +6

Topological order can fractionalize the quantum numbers of the underlying particles. A paradigmatic example is the spin-1/2 states at the edges of an antiferromagnetic integer-spin…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Exchange-induced suppression of superconductivity in a nano-skyrmion lattice - superconductor hybrid

Dongfei Wang, Wenbin Li, Eric Mascot +1

Engineered magnet-superconductor hybrids have recently been identified as promising platforms for the investigation of topological superconductivity. Beyond ferro- and antiferromag…

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Distinguishing Majorana zero modes from trivial defect states in an iron-based superconductor

Dongfei Wang, Jon Ortuzar, Freek Massee +5

Majorana zero modes, which obey non-Abelian exchange statistics, are promising candidates for topological quantum computation due to their robustness against environmental perturba…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Topological Engineering of a Frustrated Antiferromagnetic Triradical in Aza-Triangulene Architectures

Francisco Romero-Lara, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Manish Kumar +16

Open-shell nanographenes provide a versatile platform to host unconventional magnetic states within their π-conjugated networks. Particularly appealing are graphene architectures t…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Epitaxial growth of gold films on the elemental superconductors V(100), Nb(100) and Nb(110)

Dongfei Wang, Katerina Vaxevani, Danilo Longo +7

Quantum technologies require a new generation of superconducting electronic devices and circuitry. However, the superconducting materials used to construct them are restricted to a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Quantum spin excitations in a dual-core magnetic molecule

Wenbin Li, Wenwen Shi, Xiaoxiao Xiao +10

Magnetic excitations are important quantum phenomena in magnetic systems and have been widely studied in individual magnetic atoms and molecules as well as their assembled structur…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 21 cited

Tuning the Spin Interaction in Non-planar Organic Diradicals Through Mechanical Manipulation

Alessio Vegliante, Saleta Fernandez, Ricardo Ortiz +12

Open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) represent promising building blocks for carbon-based functional magnetic materials. Their magnetic properties stem from the prese…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 37 cited

On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of a High-Spin Aza-[5]-Triangulene

Manuel Vilas-Varela, Francisco Romero-Lara, Alessio Vegliante +13

Triangulenes are open-shell triangular graphene flakes with total spin increasing with their size. In the last years, on-surface-synthesis strategies have permitted fabricating and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 50 cited

Twisted bilayer zigzag-graphene nanoribbon junctions with tunable edge states

Dongfei Wang, De-Liang Bao, Qi Zheng +14

Stacking two-dimensional layered materials such as graphene and transitional metal dichalcogenides with nonzero interlayer twist angles has recently become attractive because of th…

cond-mat.supr-con2022

Correlation of Magnetism and Disordered Shiba Bands in Fe Monolayer Islands on Nb(110)

Julia J. Goedecke, Lucas Schneider, Yingqiao Ma +4

Two-dimensional (2D) magnet-superconductor hybrid systems are intensively studied due to their potential for the realization of 2D topological superconductors with Majorana edge mo…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 20 cited

Extending the spin excitation lifetime of a magnetic molecule on a proximitized superconductor

Katerina Vaxevani, Jingcheng Li, Stefano Trivini +4

Magnetic molecules deposited on surfaces are a promising platform to individually address and manipulate spins. Long spin excitation lifetimes are necessary to utilize them in quan…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 5 cited

Surface orbital order and chemical potential inhomogeneity of the iron-based superconductor FeTe0.55Se0.45 investigated with special STM tips

Dongfei Wang, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu +1

The atomically clean surface of the iron-based superconductor FeTe0.55Se0.45 is investigated by low-temperature STM with different tip apex states. By manipulating a single Fe atom…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 80 cited

Spin-polarized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in an iron based superconductor

Dongfei Wang, Jens Wiebe, Ruidan Zhong +2

Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states appear when a magnetic atom interacts with a superconductor. Here, we report on spin-resolved spectroscopic studies of YSR states related with F…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 236 cited

Atomically-Precise, Custom-Design Origami Graphene Nanostructures

Hui Chen, Xian-Li Zhang, Yu-Yang Zhang +8

The construction of atomically-precise carbon nanostructures holds promise for developing novel materials for scientific study and nanotechnology applications. Here we show that gr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 74 cited

Tunable giant magnetoresistance in a single-molecule junction

Kai Yang, Hui Chen, Thomas Pope +12

Controlling electronic transport through a single-molecule junction is crucial for molecular electronics or spintronics. In magnetic molecular devices, the spin degree-of-freedom c…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 251 cited

Nearly quantized conductance plateau of vortex zero mode in an iron-based superconductor

Shiyu Zhu, Lingyuan Kong, Lu Cao +15

Majorana zero-modes (MZMs) are spatially-localized zero-energy fractional quasiparticles with non-Abelian braiding statistics that hold a great promise for topological quantum comp…

cond-mat.supr-con2019★ 205 cited

Observation of half-integer level shift of vortex bound states in an iron-based superconductor

Lingyuan Kong, Shiyu Zhu, Michał Papaj +14

Vortices in topological superconductors host Majorana zero modes (MZMs), which are proposed to be building blocks of fault-tolerant topological quantum computers. Recently, a new s…

cond-mat.supr-con2017★ 754 cited

Evidence for Majorana bound state in an iron-based superconductor

Dongfei Wang, Lingyuan Kong, Peng Fan +12

The search for Majorana bound state (MBS) has recently emerged as one of the most active research areas in condensed matter physics, fueled by the prospect of using its non-Abelian…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 24 cited

Stacking-dependent electronic property of trilayer graphene epitaxially grown on Ru(0001)

Yande Que, Wende Xiao, Hui Chen +3

The growth, atomic structure, and electronic property of trilayer graphene (TLG) on Ru(0001) were studied by low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy in combi…