Single magnetic adsorbates on s-wave superconductors

BW Heinrich, JI Pascual, KJ Franke - Progress in Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
In superconductors, magnetic impurities induce a pair-breaking potential for Cooper pairs,
which locally affects the Bogoliubov quasiparticles and gives rise to Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR …

High-resolution studies of the Majorana atomic chain platform

BE Feldman, MT Randeria, J Li, S Jeon, Y **e, Z Wang… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Ordered assemblies of magnetic atoms on the surface of conventional superconductors can
be used to engineer topological superconducting phases and realize Majorana fermion …

Tuning the coupling of an individual magnetic impurity to a superconductor: quantum phase transition and transport

L Farinacci, G Ahmadi, G Reecht, M Ruby… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
The exchange scattering at magnetic adsorbates on superconductors gives rise to Yu-Shiba-
Rusinov (YSR) bound states. Depending on the strength of the exchange coupling, the …

Strong localization of Majorana end states in chains of magnetic adatoms

Y Peng, F Pientka, LI Glazman, F Von Oppen - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
A recent experiment [Nadj-Perge et al, Science 346, 602 (2014)] gives possible evidence for
Majorana bound states in chains of magnetic adatoms placed on a superconductor. While …

Boosting spatial and energy resolution in STM with a double-functionalized probe

A Odobesko, RL Klees, F Friedrich, EM Hankiewicz… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The scattering of superconducting pairs by magnetic impurities on a superconducting
surface leads to pairs of sharp in-gap resonances known as Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) bound …

Experimental review on Majorana zero-modes in hybrid nanowires

JB Fu, B Li, XF Zhang, GZ Yu, GY Huang… - Science China Physics …, 2021 - Springer
As the condensed matter analog of Majorana fermion, the Majorana zero-mode is well
known as a building block of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. This review …

Coupled Yu–Shiba–Rusinov States in Molecular Dimers on NbSe2

S Kezilebieke, M Dvorak, T Ojanen, P Liljeroth - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
Magnetic impurities have a dramatic effect on superconductivity by breaking the time-
reversal symmetry and inducing so-called Yu–Shiba–Rusinov (YSR) low energy bound …

Metallization of a Rashba wire by a superconducting layer in the strong-proximity regime

C Reeg, D Loss, J Klinovaja - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Semiconducting quantum wires defined within two-dimensional electron gases and strongly
coupled to thin superconducting layers have been extensively explored in recent …

Topological Floquet phases in driven coupled Rashba nanowires

J Klinovaja, P Stano, D Loss - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We consider periodically driven arrays of weakly coupled wires with conduction and valence
bands of Rashba type and study the resulting Floquet states. This nonequilibrium system …

Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in real metals

F von Oppen, KJ Franke - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Theoretical descriptions of Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states induced by magnetic impurities
inside the gap of a superconductor typically rely on a classical spin model or are restricted to …