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Topological insulators and superconductivity

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The observations of unusual edge properties in scanning tunnelling spectroscopy and the predicted band structure in photoemission spectra of a monolayer FeSe superconductor reveal its non-trivial topological nature.

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Figure 1: FeSe/STO.
Figure 2: A schematic of a FeSe/STO-based p–n-junction device for potentially realizing Majorana fermions.

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