@article{8028914085574d14a0ba85f96207eee9,
title = "Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator–superconductor structure",
abstract = "Majorana fermion is a hypothetical particle that is its own antiparticle. We report transport measurements that suggest the existence of one-dimensional chiral Majorana fermion modes in the hybrid system of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator thin film coupled with a superconductor. As the external magnetic field is swept, half-integer quantized conductance plateaus are observed at the locations of magnetization reversals, giving a distinct signature of the Majorana fermion modes. This transport signature is reproducible over many magnetic field sweeps and appears at different temperatures. This finding may open up an avenue to control Majorana fermions for implementing robust topological quantum computing.",
author = "He, {Qing Lin} and Lei Pan and Stern, {Alexander L.} and Burks, {Edward C.} and Xiaoyu Che and Gen Yin and Jing Wang and Biao Lian and Quan Zhou and Choi, {Eun Sang} and Koichi Murata and Xufeng Kou and Zhijie Chen and Tianxiao Nie and Qiming Shao and Yabin Fan and Zhang, {Shou Cheng} and Kai Liu and Jing Xia and Wang, {Kang L.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported in part by the Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems (SHINES) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences under Award S000686. We are grateful for support from the Army Research Office (ARO) program under contract W911NF-15-1-0561:P00001 and NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award DMR-1350122. We also acknowledge support from the Function Accelerated nanoMaterial Engineering (FAME) Center, one of six centers of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) program sponsored by Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation (MARCO) and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Work at University of California, Davis, is supported by NSF ECCS-1232275 (K.L.), NSF DMR-1543582 (E.C.B), and NSF DMR-1610060 (Z.C.). J.W., B.L., Q.Z., and S.-C.Z. acknowledge support from the U.S. DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, under contract DE-AC02-76SF00515 and from the NSF under grant DMR-1305677. A portion of this work was performed at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, which is supported by National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement DMR-1157490 and the State of Florida. Q.L.H. thanks B. Shen for device fabrications. Z.C. and K.L. thank P. Klavins for technical assistance with superconductivity measurements. J.W. also acknowledges support from the National Thousand-Young-Talents Program. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 The Authors, some rights reserved.",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1126/science.aag2792",
language = "English",
volume = "357",
pages = "294--299",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "6348",
}