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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 122, Issue 24, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.247002
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- John Templeton Foundation [39944, 60148]
- Office of Naval Research Grants [N00014-13-1-0301, N00014-16-1-2657]
- National Science Foundation [DMR-1207469, DMR-1700137]
- DOE [DE-FG02-03ER46076]
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The induced superconductivity (SC) in a robust and scalable quantum material with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling is particularly attractive for generating topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states (MBS). Gold (111) thin film has been proposed as a promising candidate because of the large Rashba energy, the predicted topological nature, and the possibility for large-scale MBS device fabrications. We experimentally demonstrate two important steps towards achieving such a goal. We successfully show induced SC in the Shockley surface state (SS) of ultrathin Au(111) layers grown over epitaxial vanadium films, which is easily achievable on a wafer scale. The emergence of SC in the SS, which is physically separated from a bulk superconductor, is attained by indirect quasiparticle scattering processes instead of by conventional interfacial Andreev reflections. We further show the ability to tune the SS Fermi level (E-F) by interfacing SS with a high-kappa dielectric ferromagnetic insulator EuS. The shift of E-F from similar to 550 to similar to 34 mV in superconducting SS is an important step towards realizing MBS in this robust system.
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