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SYTS: Symposium Topological Superconductor-Magnet Heterostructures

SYTS 1: Topological Superconductor-Magnet Heterostructures

Thursday, March 30, 2023, 15:00–17:45, HSZ 01

Superconductivity and magnetism have been usually regarded, in a rather pessimistic sense, as antagonistic. Nevertheless, phenomena arising from the competition between them have captivated physicists for almost a century. Nowadays, we are at the verge of a paradigm shift where we can embrace the synergy between superconductivity and magnetism. In fact, owing to recent advances in sample fabrication together with guiding principles from topology, it is now possible to engineer novel superconductor-magnet hybrid systems. These are unique platforms for exotic topological states whose fascinating properties can be exploited, for example, for topological quantum computing. The goal of this symposium is to bring together the community of this burgeoning field to strengthen the communication line between theorists and experimentalists from various divisions, to collaboratively identify challenges and set the research agenda for the coming years.

	15:00	SYTS 1.1	Invited Talk: Blending of superconductivity and magnetism via topological solitons — •Christos Panagopoulos
	15:30	SYTS 1.2	Invited Talk: Topological landscaping in magnet-superconductor heterostructures — •Sebastián A. Díaz
	16:00	SYTS 1.3	Invited Talk: Experimental study of minigaps and end states in bottom-up designed multi-orbital Shiba chains — •Jens Wiebe
	16:30		15 min. break
	16:45	SYTS 1.4	Invited Talk: Quantum spins and hybridization in artificially-constructed chains of magnetic adatoms on superconducting 2H-NbSe2 — •Katharina J. Franke
	17:15	SYTS 1.5	Invited Talk: Braiding of Majorana zero modes — •Stephan Rachel