Observation of Topological Electronic Structure in Quasi-1D Superconductor TaSe3

Chen, Cheng; Liang, Aiji; Liu, Shuai; Nie, Simin; Huang, Junwei; Wang, Meixiao; Li, Yiwei; Pei, Ding; Yang, Haifeng; Zheng, Huijun; Zhang, Yong; Lu, Donghui; Hashimoto, Makoto; Barinov, Alexei; Jozwiak, Chris; Bostwick, Aaron; Rotenberg, Eli; Kou, Xufeng; Yang, Lexian; Guo, Yanfeng; Wang, Zhijun; Yuan, Hongtao; Liu, Zhongkai; Chen, Yulin

doi:10.1016/j.matt.2020.09.005

Title: Observation of Topological Electronic Structure in Quasi-1D Superconductor TaSe3

Journal Article · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Matter (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.09.005· OSTI ID:1834222

; Liang, Aiji; Liu, Shuai;

; Huang, Junwei; Wang, Meixiao;

; Pei, Ding; Yang, Haifeng; Zheng, Huijun; Zhang, Yong; Lu, Donghui; Hashimoto, Makoto; Barinov, Alexei; Jozwiak, Chris; Bostwick, Aaron; Rotenberg, Eli; Kou, Xufeng;

;

Topological superconductors (TSCs), with the capability to host Majorana bound states that can lead to non-Abelian statistics and application in quantum computation, have been one of the most intensively studied topics in condensed matter physics recently. To date, only a few compounds have been proposed as candidates of intrinsic TSCs, such as doped topological insulator CuxBi₂Se₃ and iron-based superconductor FeTe_0.55Se_0.45. In this work, by carrying out synchrotron- and laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we systematically investigated the electronic structure of a quasi-one-dimensional superconductor TaSe₃ and identified the non-trivial topological surface states. In addition, our scanning tunneling microscopy study revealed a clean cleaved surface with a persistent superconducting gap, proving it suitable for further investigation of potential Majorana modes. These results prove TaSe₃ as a stoichiometric TSC candidate that is stable and exfoliable and therefore a promising platform for the study of rich novel phenomena and application potentials.

View Journal Article

Cite

Export

Save

Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-76SF00515; 2017YFA0305400; 2018YFA0307000; 2017YFA0304600; XDA18010000; EP/M020517/1; 61874172; 11974395; XDB33000000; 11774190; 11874022; 11674229

OSTI ID:: 1834222

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1762225; OSTI ID: 1779173; OSTI ID: 1811201

Journal Information:: Matter (Online), Journal Name: Matter (Online) Vol. 3 Journal Issue: 6; ISSN 2590-2385

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (55)

Topological insulators and superconductors Qi, Xiao-Liang; Zhang, Shou-Cheng Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 83, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.83.1057	journal	October 2011
Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications Marzari, Nicola; Mostofi, Arash A.; Yates, Jonathan R. Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 84, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.84.1419	journal	October 2012
Large magnetoresistance in topological insulator candidate TaSe ₃ Zhang, Yong; Zhu, Tongshuai; Bu, Haijun AIP Advances, Vol. 10, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0015490	journal	September 2020
Majorana Fermions and a Topological Phase Transition in Semiconductor-Superconductor Heterostructures Lutchyn, Roman M.; Sau, Jay D.; Das Sarma, S. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.077001	journal	August 2010
An experimentalist's guide to the matrix element in angle resolved photoemission Moser, Simon Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 214 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2016.11.007	journal	January 2017
Odd-Parity Topological Superconductors: Theory and Application to ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ Fu, Liang; Berg, Erez Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.097001	journal	August 2010
Superconducting topological surface states in the noncentrosymmetric bulk superconductor PbTaSe ₂ Guan, Syu-You; Chen, Peng-Jen; Chu, Ming-Wen Science Advances, Vol. 2, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600894	journal	November 2016
Low-Frequency Electronic Noise in Quasi-1D TaSe ₃ van der Waals Nanowires Liu, Guanxiong; Rumyantsev, Sergey; Bloodgood, Matthew A. Nano Letters, Vol. 17, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04334	journal	December 2016
Low Resistivity and High Breakdown Current Density of 10 nm Diameter van der Waals TaSe ₃ Nanowires by Chemical Vapor Deposition Empante, Thomas A.; Martinez, Aimee; Wurch, Michelle Nano Letters, Vol. 19, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00958	journal	June 2019
Experimental signature of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes on β-Bi 2 Pd thin films Lv, Yan-Feng; Wang, Wen-Lin; Zhang, Yi-Min Science Bulletin, Vol. 62, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2017.05.008	journal	June 2017
Proposal for realizing Majorana fermions in chains of magnetic atoms on a superconductor Nadj-Perge, S.; Drozdov, I. K.; Bernevig, B. A. Physical Review B, Vol. 88, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.020407	journal	July 2013
Experimental evidence of anomalously large superconducting gap on topological surface state of β-Bi2Pd film Guan, Jian-Yu; Kong, Lingyuan; Zhou, Li-Qin Science Bulletin, Vol. 64, Issue 17 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2019.07.019	journal	September 2019
Chiral Majorana fermion modes in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator–superconductor structure He, Qing Lin; Pan, Lei; Stern, Alexander L. Science, Vol. 357, Issue 6348 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag2792	journal	July 2017
Nearly quantized conductance plateau of vortex zero mode in an iron-based superconductor Zhu, Shiyu; Kong, Lingyuan; Cao, Lu Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0274	journal	December 2019
Multiple topological states in iron-based superconductors Zhang, Peng; Wang, Zhijun; Wu, Xianxin Nature Physics, Vol. 15, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0280-z	journal	September 2018
Topological effects of the superconducting vortex state in a ${TaSe}_{3}$ ring crystal: Observation of magnetic torque oscillations Kumagai, Genki; Matsuura, Toru; Ichimura, Koichi Physical Review B, Vol. 81, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.184506	journal	May 2010
Evidence of anisotropic Majorana bound states in 2M-WS2 Yuan, Yonghao; Pan, Jie; Wang, Xintong Nature Physics, Vol. 15, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0576-7	journal	July 2019
Experimental Detection of a Majorana Mode in the core of a Magnetic Vortex inside a Topological Insulator-Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Te}_{3} / {NbSe}_{2}$ Heterostructure Xu, Jin-Peng; Wang, Mei-Xiao; Liu, Zhi Long Physical Review Letters, Vol. 114, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.017001	journal	January 2015
Superconductivity in One-Dimensional TaSe ₃ Sambongi, Takashi; Yamamoto, Masafumi; Tsutsumi, Kitomi Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 42, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.42.1421	journal	April 1977
Thickness-Dependence Electrical Characterization of the One-Dimensional van der Waals TaSe3 Crystal Kim, Bum Jun; Jeong, Byung Joo; Oh, Seungbae Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12152462	journal	August 2019
Generic New Platform for Topological Quantum Computation Using Semiconductor Heterostructures Sau, Jay D.; Lutchyn, Roman M.; Tewari, Sumanta Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.040502	journal	January 2010
The Coexistence of Superconductivity and Topological Order in the Bi ₂ Se ₃ Thin Films Wang, Mei-Xiao; Liu, Canhua; Xu, Jin-Peng Science, Vol. 336, Issue 6077 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1216466	journal	March 2012
Majorana fermions emerging from magnetic nanoparticles on a superconductor without spin-orbit coupling Choy, T. -P.; Edge, J. M.; Akhmerov, A. R. Physical Review B, Vol. 84, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195442	journal	November 2011
Superconductivity in ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ and its Implications for Pairing in the Undoped Topological Insulator Hor, Y. S.; Williams, A. J.; Checkelsky, J. G. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.057001	journal	February 2010
Low temperature phase transition in the chain-like compounds NbSe3 and TaSe3 Haen, P.; Lapierre, F.; Monceau, P. Solid State Communications, Vol. 26, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(78)90729-9	journal	June 1978
Accurate Band Gaps of Semiconductors and Insulators with a Semilocal Exchange-Correlation Potential Tran, Fabien; Blaha, Peter Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 22 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.226401	journal	June 2009
Majorana fermions in a topological-insulator nanowire proximity-coupled to an $s$ -wave superconductor Cook, A.; Franz, M. Physical Review B, Vol. 84, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.84.201105	journal	November 2011
Topological phases in the ${TaSe}_{3}$ compound Nie, Simin; Xing, Lingyi; Jin, Rongying Physical Review B, Vol. 98, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.98.125143	journal	September 2018
Majorana zero modes in superconductor–semiconductor heterostructures Lutchyn, R. M.; Bakkers, E. P. A. M.; Kouwenhoven, L. P. Nature Reviews Materials, Vol. 3, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41578-018-0003-1	journal	May 2018
Breakdown current density in h-BN-capped quasi-1D TaSe ₃ metallic nanowires: prospects of interconnect applications Stolyarov, Maxim A.; Liu, Guanxiong; Bloodgood, Matthew A. Nanoscale, Vol. 8, Issue 34 https://doi.org/10.1039/C6NR03469A	journal	January 2016
Quantized Majorana conductance Zhang, Hao; Liu, Chun-Xiao; Gazibegovic, Sasa Nature, Vol. 556, Issue 7699 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature26142	journal	March 2018
Discovery of Superconductivity in 2M WS 2 with Possible Topological Surface States Fang, Yuqiang; Pan, Jie; Zhang, Dongqin Advanced Materials https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201901942	journal	June 2019
Bulk Fermi surface of the layered superconductor $TaS e_{3}$ with three-dimensional strong topological state Xia, Wei; Shi, Xianbiao; Zhang, Yong Physical Review B, Vol. 101, Issue 15 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.101.155117	journal	April 2020
Superconducting diamagnetism of TaSe3 and NbSe3 Buhrman, R. A.; Bastuscheck, C. M.; Scott, J. C. AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 58 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.32143	conference	January 1980
Topological nodal-line fermions in spin-orbit metal PbTaSe2 Bian, Guang; Chang, Tay-Rong; Sankar, Raman Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10556	journal	February 2016
Giant Resistivity Anomaly on the Superconducting Transition in TaSe ₃ Tajima, Yukimichi; Yamaya, Kazuhiko Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 53, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.53.495	journal	February 1984
Topological Superconductivity in ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ Sasaki, Satoshi; Kriener, M.; Segawa, Kouji Physical Review Letters, Vol. 107, Issue 21 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.217001	journal	November 2011
Observation of charge density wave transition in TaSe ₃ mesowires Yang, J.; Wang, Y. Q.; Zhang, R. R. Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 115, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5099110	journal	July 2019
Symmetry-Protected Majorana Fermions in Topological Crystalline Superconductors: Theory and Application to ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ Ueno, Yuji; Yamakage, Ai; Tanaka, Yukio Physical Review Letters, Vol. 111, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.087002	journal	August 2013
A precise method for visualizing dispersive features in image plots Zhang, P.; Richard, P.; Qian, T. Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 82, Issue 4 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3585113	journal	April 2011
Search for Majorana Fermions in Superconductors Beenakker, C. W. J. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-conmatphys-030212-184337	journal	April 2013
Non-Abelian anyons and topological quantum computation Nayak, Chetan; Simon, Steven H.; Stern, Ady Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 80, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.80.1083	journal	September 2008
Evidence for nematic superconductivity of topological surface states in PbTaSe2 Le, Tian; Sun, Yue; Jin, Hui-Ke Science Bulletin, Vol. 65, Issue 16 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2020.04.039	journal	August 2020
Superconducting Proximity Effect and Majorana Fermions at the Surface of a Topological Insulator Fu, Liang; Kane, C. L. Physical Review Letters, Vol. 100, Issue 9 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.096407	journal	March 2008
Observation of topological superconductivity on the surface of an iron-based superconductor Zhang, Peng; Yaji, Koichiro; Hashimoto, Takahiro Science, Vol. 360, Issue 6385 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aan4596	journal	March 2018
Majorana zero modes and topological quantum computation Sarma, Sankar Das; Freedman, Michael; Nayak, Chetan npj Quantum Information, Vol. 1, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/npjqi.2015.1	journal	October 2015
Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor Nadj-Perge, S.; Drozdov, I. K.; Li, J. Science, Vol. 346, Issue 6209 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259327	journal	October 2014
Strain control of the competition between metallic and semiconducting states in single-layers of TaSe ₃ Silva-Guillén, José Ángel; Canadell, Enric 2D Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ab72d9	journal	March 2020
Experimental Evidence for $s$ -Wave Pairing Symmetry in Superconducting ${Cu}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ Single Crystals Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Levy, Niv; Zhang, Tong; Ha, Jeonghoon Physical Review Letters, Vol. 110, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.117001	journal	March 2013
Observation of half-quantum flux in the unconventional superconductor β-Bi ₂ Pd Li, Yufan; Xu, Xiaoying; Lee, M. -H. Science, Vol. 366, Issue 6462 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aau6539	journal	October 2019
Enhanced superconductivity accompanying a Lifshitz transition in electron-doped FeSe monolayer Shi, X.; Han, Z-Q; Peng, X-L Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14988	journal	April 2017
The superconductivity of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ and the physics of spin-triplet pairing Mackenzie, Andrew Peter; Maeno, Yoshiteru Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol. 75, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.75.657	journal	May 2003
Topological superconductors: a review Sato, Masatoshi; Ando, Yoichi Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 80, Issue 7 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/aa6ac7	journal	May 2017
Evidence for Majorana bound states in an iron-based superconductor Wang, Dongfei; Kong, Lingyuan; Fan, Peng Science, Vol. 362, Issue 6412 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1797	journal	August 2018
Anisotropic Compressibilities of the Linear-Chain Compound TaSe ₃ Yamaya, Kazuhiko; Oomi, Gendo Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Vol. 51, Issue 11 https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.51.3512	journal	November 1982

Similar Records

Electronic structure of the Si-containing topological Dirac semimetal CaAl₂Si₂

Journal Article · Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Physical Review B · OSTI ID:1834222

Deng, Tao; Chen, Cheng; Su, Hao; +17 more

Observation of topological Dirac fermions and surface states in superconducting BaSn3

Journal Article · Mon Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Physical Review B · OSTI ID:1834222

Huang, K.; Luo, A. Y.; Chen, C.; +15 more

Robust Kagome Electronic Structure in Topological Quantum Magnets XMn₆Sn₆ (X = Dy, Tb, Gd, Y)

Journal Article · Tue Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Physical Review. B · OSTI ID:1834222

Gu, X.; Chen, C.; Wei, W. S.; +25 more

Related Subjects

75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
topological superconductor
electronic structure
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
scanning tunneling microscopy

Title: Observation of Topological Electronic Structure in Quasi-1D Superconductor TaSe3

Citation Formats

References (55)

Similar Records

Related Subjects