American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 6412(362), p. 333-335, 2018
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An iron home for Majoranas The surface of the iron-based superconductor FeTe 0.55 Se 0.45 has been identified as a potential topological superconductor and is expected to host exotic quasiparticles called the Majorana bound states (MBSs). Wang et al. looked for signatures of MBSs in this material by using scanning tunneling spectroscopy on the vortex cores formed by the application of a magnetic field. In addition to conventional states, they observed the characteristic zero-bias peaks associated with MBSs and were able to distinguish between the two, owing to the favorable ratios of energy scales in the system. Science , this issue p. 333