Magnetism and superconductivity of chromium trihalide heterostructures – Mascote

Majorana states are the object of a major quest with lot of deception. Many systems, such as semiconducting nanowires coupled to a superconductor have been explored but, unfortunately, severe criticisms have been addressed and some promising results have been retracted from literature. By contrast, while the semiconducting nanowire road to Majorana physics appears as quite dubious now, the route towards Majorana quasiparticles based on magnetic/superconductor heterostructures looks extremely promising. Motivated by some recent experimental evidences of topological superconductivity using 2D van der Waals magnets, Mascote aims at investigating this new route towards Majorana physics. Magnetic order in single layer of 2D van der Waals magnets deposited on various substrates will be investigated in order to search for topological superconductivity in these structures.