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Platform of chiral Majorana edge modes and its quantum transport phenomena

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COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
Volume 2, Issue -, Pages -

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NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-019-0250-5

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  1. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology [JP24224009, JP26103006]
  2. Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
  3. Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology (CREST), Japan [JPMJCR16F1, JPMJCR1874]
  4. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan (MEXT) [JP15H05851, JP15H05853, JP15K21717, JP18H01176]

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Majorana fermions, as electronic quasi-particle modes in solid states, have been under the focus of research due to their exotic physical properties. While the evidence of Majorana fermions as zero-dimensional bound states has been well established, the existence of onedimensional Majorana modes is still under debate. The main reason is that the current theoretical proposals of platforms supporting such states are very challenging experimentally. Here, we propose a method to create two-dimensional topological superconductors with a heterostructure of ferromagnet, topological insulator thin film and superconductor. We show that such a system supports one-dimensional chiral Majorana edge modes in a wide range of parameters which is readily achievable in experiments. We further propose a new transport measurement to detect these modes.

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