@article{1e220284394346b483a4be129e932510,
title = "Momentum-space imaging of Cooper pairing in a half-Dirac-gas topological superconductor",
abstract = "Superconductivity involving topological Dirac electrons has recently been proposed as a platform between concepts in high-energy and condensed-matter physics. It has been predicted that supersymmetry and Majorana fermions, both of which remain elusive in particle physics, may be realized through emergent particles in these particular superconducting systems. Using artificially fabricated topological-insulator-superconductor heterostructures, we present direct spectroscopic evidence for the existence of Cooper pairing in a weakly interacting half Dirac gas. Our studies reveal that two dimensional topological superconductivity in a helical Dirac gas is distinctly different from that in an ordinary two-dimensional superconductor in terms of the spin degrees of freedom of electrons. We further show that the pairing of Dirac electrons can be suppressed by time-reversal symmetry-breaking impurities, thereby removing the distinction. Our demonstration and momentum-space imaging of Cooper pairing in a half-Dirac-gas two-dimensional topological superconductor serve as a critically important platform for future testing of fundamental physics predictions such as emergent supersymmetry and topological quantum criticality.",
author = "Xu, {Su Yang} and Nasser Alidoust and Ilya Belopolski and Anthony Richardella and Chang Liu and Madhab Neupane and Guang Bian and Huang, {Song Hsun} and Raman Sankar and Chen Fang and Brian Dellabetta and Wenqing Dai and Qi Li and Gilbert, {Matthew J.} and Fangcheng Chou and Nitin Samarth and Hasan, {M. Zahid}",
note = "Funding Information: The work at Princeton and Princeton-led synchrotron-based ARPES measurements is supported by US DOE DE-FG-02-05ER46200. MBE growth of Bi2Se3/NbSe2 samples at Penn State was supported by ARO through ARO-MURI (W911NF-12-1-0461). The point-contact measurements were supported by US DOE DE-FG02-08ER4653 (Q.L.). C.F. and M.J.G. are supported by the ONR under grant N00014-11-1-0728 and N00014-14-1-0123 and B.D. and M.J.G. are supported by the AFOSR under grant FA9550-10-1-0459. Initial materials work was supported by MRSEC Program Grant DMR-0819860. M.J.G. is supported by NSF CAREER Award ECCS 13-51871. F.C.C. acknowledges the support provided by MOST-Taiwan under project number NSC-102-2119-M-002-004. We gratefully acknowledge E. Rienks for assistance at the BESSY facility. We also thank J. Denlinger, S-k. Mo, A. Fedorov, and M. Hashimoto for beamline support at the beamlines 4.0.3, 10.0.1, 12.0.1 at the ALS, and the beamline 5–4 at the SSRL, respectively. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
month = dec,
day = "11",
doi = "10.1038/nphys3139",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
pages = "943--950",
journal = "Nature Physics",
issn = "1745-2473",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "12",
}