A model for continuous thermal Metal to Insulator Transition
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2017-09-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We propose a dimensional interacting Majorana fermion model with quenched disorder, which gives us a continuous quantum phase transition between a diffusive thermal metal phase with a finite entropy density to an insulator phase with zero entropy density. This model is based on coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model clusters, and hence has a controlled large- limit. The metal-insulator transition is accompanied by a spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking. We perform controlled calculations to show that the diffusion constant jumps to zero discontinuously at the metal-insulator transition, while the time-reversal symmetry breaking order parameter increases continuously.
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@article{arxiv.1703.07793,
title = {A model for continuous thermal Metal to Insulator Transition},
author = {Chao-Ming Jian and Zhen Bi and Cenke Xu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.07793},
year = {2017}
}
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11 pages