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ArticleNature physics2026

Robustness of Majorana modes to a disorder potential in atomic chains on a superconducting Rashba alloy.

Harim Jang, Daniel Crawford, Khai That Ton, Lucas Schneider, Jens Wiebe, Makoto Shimizu, Harald O Jeschke, Stephan Rachel, Roland Wiesendanger

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Harim JangDepartment of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2302-9864
Daniel CrawfordDepartment of Physics and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-9506-7168
Khai That TonDepartment of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Lucas SchneiderDepartment of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Jens WiebeDepartment of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1668-6142
Makoto ShimizuDepartment of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-7700-1170
Harald O JeschkeResearch Inst. for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-8091-7024
Stephan RachelSchool of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3455-2802
Roland WiesendangerDepartment of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0472-4183

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Abstract

Majorana modes offer great potential for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their topological protection. However, intrinsic disorder makes the unambiguous detection of Majorana modes difficult in the commonly used hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire platform. By contrast, for magnet-superconductor hybrid systems, Majorana modes were theoretically predicted to be very robust against disorder, but no experimental confirmation of this has been reported so far. Here we demonstrate that these modes are indeed robust in one-dimensional spin chains constructed from individual iron atoms on a Rashba surface alloy with proximity-induced superconductivity. Although the chains exhibit perfect crystalline order, we observe nanoscale potential disorder of the BiAg

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Surfaces, interfaces and thin filmsTopological matter

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PMCPMC13423794

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