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Ching-Kai Chiu1, T Machida2, Yingyi Huang1,3
1Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
Abstract:
The iron-based superconductor FeTe Se1- is one of the material candidates hosting Majorana vortex modes residing in the vortex cores. It has been observed by recent scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurement that the fraction of vortex cores having zero-bias peaks decreases with increasing magnetic field on the surface of FeTe Se1- . The hybridization of two Majorana vortex modes cannot simply explain this phenomenon. We construct a three-dimensional tight-binding model simulating the physics of over a hundred Majorana vortex modes in FeTe Se1- . Our simulation shows that the Majorana hybridization and disordered vortex distribution can explain the decreasing fraction of the zero-bias peaks observed in the experiment; the statistics of the energy peaks off zero energy in our Majorana simulation are in agreement with the experiment. These agreements lead to an important indication of scalable Majorana vortex modes in FeTe Se1- . Thus, FeTe Se1- can be one promising platform having scalable Majorana qubits for quantum computing.
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