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3–7 juil. 2023
Cité des sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Spin-polarized Majorana zero modes in penta-silicene nanoribbons

7 juil. 2023, 09:00
15m
Amphi Gaston Berger

Amphi Gaston Berger

Contribution orale MC21 Matériaux quantiques : des prédictions à l'observation Mini-colloques: MC21 Matériaux quantiques : des prédictions à l'observation

Orateur

Guy LE LAY (PIIM - CNRS Aix-Marseille Université)

Description

We report the possibility of obtaining Majorana zero modes (MZMs) in straight, highly perfect, and massively aligned atom-thin penta-silicene nanoribbons (p-SiNRs) with a very high aspect ratio, purely composed of silicon pentagonal building blocks, and grown by molecular beam epitaxy on the (110) surface a silver crystal template2,3. They could constitute the experimental realization of the generic Kitaev toy model3,4. The spinless and full spin p-SiNRs with p-wave superconducting pairing reveal the emergence of topologically protected MZMs at opposite ends of the p-SiNRs. Besides the first nearest neighbor hopping term and p-wave superconducting pairing we consider an external magnetic field perpendicularly applied to the nanoribbon plane and an intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The dispersion relation profiles show the closing and reopening of the superconducting gap for only one spin component, suggesting a spin-polarized topological phase transition (TPT). Along with this TPT, the energy spectrum as a function of the p-SiNR chemical potential exhibits zero-energy states and preferential spin direction. It is associated with nonoverlapping wave functions well-localized at the opposite extremities of the superconducting p-SiNRs. Hence, we show theoretically that the p-SiNRs could constitute a tantalizing new platform for MZMs.

  1. Jorge I. Cerda, Jagoda Sławinska, Guy Le Lay, Antonela C. Marele, Jose M. Gomez-Rodrıguez, and Marıa E. Davila, Nature Comm., 7, 13076 (2016).
  2. R. Pawlak et al., PNAS, 117, 228 (2020).
  3. A. Y. Kitaev, Physics-Uspekhi, 44, 131 (2001).
  4. R. C. Bento Ribeiro et al., Phys. Rev. B 105, 205115 (2022).
Affiliation de l'auteur principal PIIM -CNRS Aix-Marseille Université

Auteur principal

Guy LE LAY (PIIM - CNRS Aix-Marseille Université)

Co-auteurs

Dr R. C. Bento Ribeiro Dr J. H. Correa Dr L. S. Ricco Dr A. C. Seridonio Dr I. A. Shelykh Dr Marco Minissale Dr M. A. Continento Prof. Marcos Figuiera

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