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Anisotropic fixed points in Dirac and Weyl semimetals

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-09-26 v3

Abstract

The effective low energy description of interacting Dirac and Weyl semimetals is that of massless quantum electrodynamics with several Lorentz breaking material parameters. We perform a renormalization group analysis of Coulomb interaction in anisotropic Dirac and Weyl semimetals and show that the anisotropy persists in the material systems at the infrared fixed point. In addition, a tilt of the fermion cones breaking inversion symmetry induces a magnetoelectric term in the electrodynamics of the material whose magnitude runs to match that of the electronic tilt at the fixed point.

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@article{arxiv.1802.02632,
  title  = {Anisotropic fixed points in Dirac and Weyl semimetals},
  author = {Oscar Pozo and Yago Ferreiros and María A. H. Vozmediano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02632},
  year   = {2018}
}

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