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20192025
most citedEvidence of topological Shiba bands in artificial spin chains on superconductors

127 citations · 521 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Robustness of Majorana modes to potential disorder in Fe chains on a superconducting Rashba alloy

Harim Jang, Daniel Crawford, Khai Ton That +6

Majorana modes offer great potential for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their topological protection. However, for superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrids, intrins…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Coexistence of topologically trivial and non-trivial Yu-Shiba-Rusinov bands in magnetic atomic chains on a superconductor

Bendegúz Nyári, Philip Beck, András Lászlóffy +7

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) have been proposed as a promising basis for Majorana qubits offering great potential for topological quantum computation. Such modes may form at the ends…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Non-local detection of coherent Yu-Shiba-Rusinov quantum projections

Khai Ton That, Chang Xu, Ioannis Ioannidis +5

Probing spatially confined quantum states from afar - a long-sought goal to minimize external interference - has been proposed to be achievable in condensed matter systems via cohe…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

High-resolution spectroscopy of proximity superconductivity in finite-size quantized surface states

Lucas Schneider, Christian von Bredow, Howon Kim +4

Adding superconducting (SC) electron pairing via the proximity effect to pristinely non-superconducting materials can lead to a variety of interesting physical phenomena. Particula…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 10 cited

Search for large topological gaps in atomic spin chains on proximitized superconducting heavy metal layers

Philip Beck, Bendegúz Nyári, Lucas Schneider +7

One-dimensional systems comprising s-wave superconductivity with meticulously tuned magnetism and spin-orbit coupling can realize topologically gapped superconductors hosting Major…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 21 cited

Testing the topological nature of end states in antiferromagnetic atomic chains on superconductors

Lucas Schneider, Philip Beck, Levente Rózsa +3

Edge states forming at the boundaries of topologically non-trivial phases of matter are promising candidates for future device applications because of their stability against local…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 39 cited

Proximity superconductivity in atom-by-atom crafted quantum dots

Lucas Schneider, Khai That Ton, Ioannis Ioannidis +4

Gapless materials in electronic contact with superconductors acquire proximity-induced superconductivity in a region near the interface. Numerous proposals build on this addition o…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 11 cited

Systematic study of Mn atoms, artificial dimers and chains on superconducting Ta(110)

Philip Beck, Lucas Schneider, Roland Wiesendanger +1

Magnetic adatoms coupled to an -wave superconductor give rise to local bound states, so-called Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states. Focusing on the ultimate goal of tailoring chains of such…

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.supr-con2022

Effect of substrate spin-orbit coupling on the topological gap size of Shiba chains

Philip Beck, Lucas Schneider, Roland Wiesendanger +1

Realizing Majorana bound states in chains of magnetic impurities on -wave superconducting substrates relies on a fine tuning of the energy and hybridization of the single magnet…

cond-mat.supr-con2021

Structural and Superconducting Properties of Ultrathin Ir Films on Nb(110)

Philip Beck, Lucas Schneider, Lydia Bachmann +2

The ongoing quest for unambiguous signatures of topological superconductivity and Majorana modes in magnet-superconductor hybrid systems creates a high demand for suitable supercon…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 127 cited

Evidence of topological Shiba bands in artificial spin chains on superconductors

Lucas Schneider, Philip Beck, Thore Posske +5

A major challenge in developing topological superconductors for implementing topological quantum computing is their characterization and control. It has been proposed that a p-wave…

cond-mat.supr-con2021★ 116 cited

Controlled length-dependent interaction of Majorana modes in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov chains

Lucas Schneider, Philip Beck, Jannis Neuhaus-Steinmetz +3

Magnetic atoms on superconductors induce localized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound states. The proposal that topological superconductivity and Majorana modes can be engineered in arra…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 71 cited

Spin-orbit coupling induced splitting of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in antiferromagnetic dimers

Philip Beck, Lucas Schneider, Levente Rózsa +5

Magnetic atoms coupled to the Cooper pairs of a superconductor induce Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states (in short Shiba states). In the presence of sufficiently strong spin-orbit coupling, t…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 66 cited

Atomic-scale spin-polarization maps using functionalized superconducting probes

Lucas Schneider, Philip Beck, Jens Wiebe +1

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with a magnetic tip that has a sufficiently strong spin-polarization can be used to map the sample's spin structure down to the atomic scale b…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 60 cited

Controlling in-gap end states by linking nonmagnetic atoms and artificially-constructed spin chains on superconductors

Lucas Schneider, Sascha Brinker, Manuel Steinbrecher +6

Chains of magnetic atoms with either strong spin-orbit coupling or spiral magnetic order which are proximity-coupled to superconducting substrates can host topologically non-trivia…

cond-mat.supr-con2019

Magnetism and in-gap states of 3d transition metal atoms on superconducting Re

Lucas Schneider, Manuel Steinbrecher, Levente Rózsa +6

Magnetic atoms on heavy-element superconducting substrates are potential building blocks for realizing topological superconductivity in one- and two-dimensional atomic arrays. Thei…