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COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-021-00666-5
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Materials Sciences, and Engineering Division
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Researchers propose a setup combining a Josephson junction and a skyrmion crystal to create and control Majorana bound states, highlighting the additional phase tunability of planar Josephson junctions for generating Majorana bound states. The externally tunable skyrmion radius brings a unique control feature for the Majorana bound states, demonstrating promising possibilities for manipulating topological superconductivity.
Majorana fermions are elusive particles which have proven extremely tricky to observe experimentally, with current efforts focused on hybrid superconducting devices. Here, the authors theoretically propose a set up combining a Josephson junction and a skyrmion crystal to create and control the Majorana bound states. Planar Josephson junctions provide a versatile platform, alternative to the nanowire-based geometry, for the generation of the Majorana bound states, due to the additional phase tunability of the topological superconductivity. The proximity induction of chiral magnetism and superconductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas showed remarkable promise to manipulate topological superconductivity. Here, we consider a Josephson junction involving a skyrmion crystal and show that the chiral magnetism of the skyrmions can create and control the Majorana bound states without the requirement of an intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Interestingly, the Majorana bound states in our geometry are realized robustly at zero phase difference at the junction. The skyrmion radius, being externally tunable by a magnetic field or a magnetic anisotropy, brings a unique control feature for the Majorana bound states.
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