We address the possible emergence of spin triplet superconductivity in CrO2 bilayers, which are half-metals with fully spin-polarized conducting bands. Starting from a lattice model, we show that chiral p+ip states compete with non-chiral p-wave ones. At large doping, the p+ip channel has a sequence of topological phase transitions that can be tuned by gating effects and interaction strength. Among several phases, we find chiral topological phases having a single Majorana mode at the edge. We show that different topological superconducting phases could spontaneously emerge in the vicinity of the van-Hove singularities of the band.
@article{arxiv.1803.05571,
title = {Possible Chiral Topological Superconductivity in CrO$_{2}$ bilayers},
author = {Xu Dou and Kangjun Seo and Bruno Uchoa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05571},
year = {2019}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures; supplementary materials included; v2 updated version