{"id":163115,"date":"2023-04-30T21:27:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-model-system-of-topological-superconductivity-mediated-by-skyrmionic-magnons"},"modified":"2023-04-30T21:27:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:27:30","slug":"a-model-system-of-topological-superconductivity-mediated-by-skyrmionic-magnons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/a-model-system-of-topological-superconductivity-mediated-by-skyrmionic-magnons","title":{"rendered":"A model system of topological superconductivity mediated by skyrmionic magnons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-model-system-of-topological-superconductivity-mediated-by-skyrmionic-magnons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Topological superconductors are superconducting materials with unique characteristics, including the appearance of so-called in-gap Majorana states. These bound states can serve as qubits, making topological superconductors particularly promising for the creation of quantum computing technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Some physicists have recently been exploring the potential for creating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum systems<\/a> that integrate superconductors with swirling configurations of atomic magnetic dipoles (spins), known as quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/skyrmion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">skyrmion<\/a> crystals. Most of these efforts suggested sandwiching quantum skyrmion crystals between superconductors to achieve topological superconductivity.<\/p>\n<p>Kristian M\u00e6land and Asle Sudb\u00f8, two researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, have recently proposed an alternative model system of topological superconductivity, which does not contain superconducting materials. This theoretical model, introduced in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, would instead use a sandwich structure of a heavy metal, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+insulator\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic insulator<\/a>, and a normal metal, where the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heavy+metal\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heavy metal<\/a> induces a quantum skyrmion crystal in the magnetic insulator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topological superconductors are superconducting materials with unique characteristics, including the appearance of so-called in-gap Majorana states. These bound states can serve as qubits, making topological superconductors particularly promising for the creation of quantum computing technologies. Some physicists have recently been exploring the potential for creating quantum systems that integrate superconductors with swirling configurations of atomic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}