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Schneider, Lucas
Beck, Philip
Neuhaus-Steinmetz, Jannis
Posske, Thore
Wiebe, Jens
Wiesendanger, Roland

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Nature Nanotechnology. Nature Publishing Group. 2022, 17(4), pp. 384-389. ISSN 1748-3387. eISSN 1748-3395. Available under: doi: 10.1038/s41565-022-01078-4

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Isolated Majorana modes (MMs) are highly non-local quantum states with non-Abelian exchange statistics, which localize at the two ends of finite-size 1D topological superconductors of sufficient length. Experimental evidence for MMs is so far based on the detection of several key signatures: for example, a conductance peak pinned to the Fermi energy or an oscillatory peak splitting in short 1D systems when the MMs overlap. However, most of these key signatures were probed only on one of the ends of the 1D system, and firm evidence for an MM requires the simultaneous detection of all the key signatures on both ends. Here we construct short atomic spin chains on a superconductor—also known as Shiba chains—up to a chain length of 45 atoms using tip-assisted atom manipulation in scanning tunnelling microscopy experiments. We observe zero-energy conductance peaks localized at both ends of the chain that simultaneously split off from the Fermi energy in an oscillatory fashion after altering the chain length. By fitting the parameters of a low-energy model to the data, we find that the peaks are consistent with precursors of MMs that evolve into isolated MMs protected by an estimated topological gap of 50 μeV in chains of at least 35 nm length, corresponding to 70 atoms.

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ISO 690SCHNEIDER, Lucas, Philip BECK, Jannis NEUHAUS-STEINMETZ, Levente RÓZSA, Thore POSSKE, Jens WIEBE, Roland WIESENDANGER, 2022. Precursors of Majorana modes and their length-dependent energy oscillations probed at both ends of atomic Shiba chains. In: Nature Nanotechnology. Nature Publishing Group. 2022, 17(4), pp. 384-389. ISSN 1748-3387. eISSN 1748-3395. Available under: doi: 10.1038/s41565-022-01078-4
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  journal={Nature Nanotechnology},
  pages={384--389},
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