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Possible Chiral Topological Superconductivity in CrO$_{2}$ bilayers

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-03-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We address the possible emergence of spin triplet superconductivity in CrO2_{2} bilayers, which are half-metals with fully spin-polarized conducting bands. Starting from a lattice model, we show that chiral p+ipp+ip states compete with non-chiral pp-wave ones. At large doping, the p+ipp+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.

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@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

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