(June 17, 2015) The
results are important in the search for new quantum states and possible use in
future electronics applications.
Aalto University researchers have succeeded to predict, in
theory, that superconducting surfaces can become topological superconductors
when magnetic iron atoms are deposited on the surface in a regular pattern.
They used the latest mathematical and physical models to predict the existence
of a topological superconducting state on metallic superconducting surfaces and
thin films. The results were recently published in the Physics Review Letters
science journal.
The work examines the properties of superconductors in low
temperatures. The results are important in the search for new quantum states
and possible use in future electronics applications.