Observation of topological superconductivity in a stoichiometric transition metal dichalcogenide 2M-WS2

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 2874 - 7
• Main Authors: Li, Y. W., Zheng, H. J., Fang, Y. Q., Zhang, D. Q., Chen, Y. J., Chen, C., Liang, A. J., Shi, W. J., Pei, D., Xu, L. X., Liu, S., Pan, J., Lu, D. H., Hashimoto, M., Barinov, A., Jung, S. W., Cacho, C., Wang, M. X., He, Y., Fu, L., Zhang, H. J., Huang, F. Q., Yang, L. X., Liu, Z. K., Chen, Y. L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 17.05.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 140/125; 140/146; 147/138; 639/766/119/1003; 639/766/119/2792/4128; Chalcogenides; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Fabrication; Heterostructures; Humanities and Social Sciences; Laboratories; Laser applications; Lasers; Microscopy; multidisciplinary; Photoelectric emission; Physics; Quantum computing; Qubits (quantum computing); Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Spectroscopy; Superconductivity; Synchrotrons; Topography; Topological superconductors; Transition metal compounds; Transition temperature; Transition temperatures; Tungsten disulfide; Unconventional superconductors

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are unconventional superconductors with bulk superconducting gap and in-gap Majorana states on the boundary that may be used as topological qubits for quantum computation. Despite their importance in both fundamental research and applications, natural TSCs are very...