Majorana fermions in spin-singlet nodal superconductors with coexisting noncollinear magnetic order.

نویسندگان

  • Yuan-Ming Lu
  • Ziqiang Wang
چکیده

Realizations of Majorana fermions in solid state materials have attracted great interest recently in connection to topological order and quantum information processing. We propose a novel way to create Majorana fermions in superconductors. We show that an incipient noncollinear magnetic order turns a spin-singlet superconductor with nodes into a topological superconductor with a stable Majorana bound state in the vortex core, at a topologically stable magnetic point defect, and on the edge. We argue that such an exotic non-Abelian phase can be realized in extended t-J models on the triangular and square lattices. It is promising to search for Majorana fermions in correlated electron materials where nodal superconductivity and magnetism are two common caricatures.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 110 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013