Thanks to many years of cooperation with the Department of Physics University of Hamburg, School of Physics University of Melbourne, and Department of Physics University of Illinois at Chicago, we have published in Nature Communications groundbreaking research on topological superconductivity in antiferromagnetic Mn islands on Nb(110) surface.

Topological superconductivity is an extremely interesting research topic, unlike other types of superconductivity, it has great potential for application in quantum computing. This type of superconductivity is capable to harbour so-called non-Abelian states, i.e. states that are neither fermionic nor bosonic. It is the non-Abelian states that potentially form the basis of fault-tolerant quantum computing!

As a result of experimental studies at low temperatures (1.8 K) with STM, we observed topological superconductivity at nodal points in Mn antiferromagnetic islands on Nb(110). The obtained experimental results were confirmed by computer calculations.

Read more about our research >>HERE<< and in supplementary materials.

The article has been published in open access.