<p>The interplay of magnetism and superconductivity can lead to intriguing emergent phenomena. Here we combine two different two-dimensional antiferromagnetic magnet-superconductor hybrids (MSH) and study their properties using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy. Both MSHs show the characteristics of a topological nodal point superconducting phase with edge modes to the trivial substrate superconductor. At the boundary between the two MSHs we find low-energy modes which are spin-polarized. Based on a tight-binding model we can explain the experimental observations by considering two different topological nodal point superconductors. At their boundary spin-polarized chiral edge modes emerge that connect topological nodal points of the two different MSH. We demonstrate via the complex band structure that due to an asymmetric lateral decay these edge modes are spin-polarized, regardless of the details of the spin structure at the boundary. This work shows how interfaces between two distinct topological nodal point superconductors can serve as a platform to engineer spin-polarized edge modes.</p>

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Spin-polarized edge modes between different magnet-superconductor-hybrids

  • Felix Zahner,
  • Felix Nickel,
  • Roberto Lo Conte,
  • Tim Drevelow,
  • Roland Wiesendanger,
  • Stefan Heinze,
  • Kirsten von Bergmann

摘要

The interplay of magnetism and superconductivity can lead to intriguing emergent phenomena. Here we combine two different two-dimensional antiferromagnetic magnet-superconductor hybrids (MSH) and study their properties using spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy. Both MSHs show the characteristics of a topological nodal point superconducting phase with edge modes to the trivial substrate superconductor. At the boundary between the two MSHs we find low-energy modes which are spin-polarized. Based on a tight-binding model we can explain the experimental observations by considering two different topological nodal point superconductors. At their boundary spin-polarized chiral edge modes emerge that connect topological nodal points of the two different MSH. We demonstrate via the complex band structure that due to an asymmetric lateral decay these edge modes are spin-polarized, regardless of the details of the spin structure at the boundary. This work shows how interfaces between two distinct topological nodal point superconductors can serve as a platform to engineer spin-polarized edge modes.