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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 6(84)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.84.060408

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Half-metallic surface states and topological superconductivity in NaCoO2from first principles

Journal article published in 2011 by Hongming Weng ORCID, Gang Xu, Haijun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Based on first-principles calculations, we predict a half-metallic surface state in layered bulk insulator NaCoO2, with tunable surface hole concentration. The half-metallic surface has a single Fermi surface with a helical spin texture, similar to the surface state of topological insulators, but with the key difference of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the present case. We propose the realization of topological superconductivity and Majorana fermions when the half-metallic surface states are in proximity contact with a conventional superconductor.