Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Single-molecule quantum-transport phenomena in break junctions

P Gehring, JM Thijssen, HSJ van der Zant - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Single-molecule junctions—devices in which a single molecule is electrically connected by
two electrodes—enable the study of a broad range of quantum-transport phenomena even …

Two-dimensional Shiba lattices as a possible platform for crystalline topological superconductivity

MO Soldini, F Küster, G Wagner, S Das… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Localized or propagating Majorana boundary modes are the key feature of topological
superconductors. They are rare in naturally occurring compounds, but the tailored …

Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor

S Nadj-Perge, IK Drozdov, J Li, H Chen, S Jeon, J Seo… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Majorana fermions are predicted to localize at the edge of a topological superconductor, a
state of matter that can form when a ferromagnetic system is placed in proximity to a …

Anomalous zero-bias conductance peak in a Nb–InSb nanowire–Nb hybrid device

MT Deng, CL Yu, GY Huang, M Larsson, P Caroff… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor InSb nanowires are expected to provide an excellent material platform for
the study of Majorana fermions in solid state systems. Here, we report on the realization of a …

Topological Shiba bands in artificial spin chains on superconductors

L Schneider, P Beck, T Posske, D Crawford, E Mascot… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
A major challenge in develo** topological superconductors for implementing topological
quantum computing is their characterization and control. It has been proposed that ap-wave …

Single-molecule electronics: from chemical design to functional devices

L Sun, YA Diaz-Fernandez, TA Gschneidtner… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of single molecules in electronics represents the next limit of miniaturisation of
electronic devices, which would enable us to continue the trend of aggressive downscaling …

End states and subgap structure in proximity-coupled chains of magnetic adatoms

M Ruby, F Pientka, Y Peng, F Von Oppen, BW Heinrich… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
A recent experiment [Nadj-Perge et al., Science 346, 602 (2014)] provides evidence for
Majorana zero modes in iron (Fe) chains on the superconducting Pb (110) surface. Here, we …

Detection of a pair density wave state in UTe2

Q Gu, JP Carroll, S Wang, S Ran, C Broyles… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Spin-triplet topological superconductors should exhibit many unprecedented electronic
properties, including fractionalized electronic states relevant to quantum information …

Towards single molecule switches

JL Zhang, JQ Zhong, JD Lin, WP Hu, K Wu… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of using single molecules as key building blocks for logic gates, diodes and
transistors to perform basic functions of digital electronic devices at the molecular scale has …