Bulk effect and scaling behavior of Majorana Bound States in FeTe<sub>0.55</sub>Se<sub>0.45</sub>

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Abstract

Majorana bound states (MBS) can arise as quasi-particle excitations in vortex core of p-wave superconductors. Inspired by heterostructure proximity effect, Fu and Kane [1] proposed a realistic way to construct effective p-wave conditions with ordinary superconductor, which needs to induce full superconducting gap on non-degenerate Dirac surface states. Recently, we found a new platform (FeTe0.55Se0.45 single crystal) supporting pure Majorana-type excitations mimic Fu-Kane Model, which benefit from interband k-space proximity effect and strong correlation of materials. By combining ARPES [2] and STM [3] measurements, we, previously, established topological non-trivial properties and shown strong evidences of existence of MBS on vortex cores. In this talk, we will report temperature and tunneling barrier dependent measurements of MBS in FeTe0.55Se0.45, whose behaviors support Mojorana explanations. [1] L. Fu and C. L. Kane, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 096407 (2008) [2] P. Zhang et al., arXiv:1706.05163 (2017) [3] D.-F. Wang*, L.-Y. Kong*, P. Fan* et al., arXiv:1706.06074 (2017)

Presenters

  • Lingyuan Kong

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Scienes (CAS)

Authors

  • Lingyuan Kong

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Scienes (CAS)
  • Dongfei Wang

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Shiyu Zhu

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Peng Fan

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Hui Chen

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Wenyao Liu

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Lu Cao

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yujie Sun

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciecses
  • Shixuan Du

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Hong Ding

    • Insititute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Scienes (CAS)
    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • Institute of physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • H.-J. Gao

    • Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • John Schneeloch

    • University of Virginia
    • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Ruidan Zhong

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • Brookhaven National Labs
    • Brookhaven Natl Lab
    • Brookhaven National Lab
    • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Genda Gu

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • Brookhaven National Labs
    • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • Condensed Matter &materials Science, Brookhaven Natl Lab
    • Brookhaven Natl Lab
    • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • Brookhaven Natl. Lab
    • Brookhaven National Lab
    • Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory
    • brookhaven national laboratory
  • Liang Fu

    • Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • Physics, Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Physics, Massachusetts Inst of Technology
    • Physics, MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT