Anisotropic marginal Fermi liquid for Coulomb interacting generalized Weyl fermions
Abstract
Owing to the power-law anisotropy in the quasiparticle dispersion, yielding an enhanced density of states, the effects of long range Coulomb interaction get amplified in three-dimensional generalized Weyl semimetals, characterized by integer monopole charge of the underlying Weyl nodes. Using a Wilsonian renormalization group approach controlled by a large- expansion with as the number of Weyl fermion flavors and a gauge-consistent regularization fixed by the Ward-Takahashi identity, we uncover for an extended interaction-dominated scaling regime with intrinsically anisotropic dynamic Coulomb screening, a finite fermionic anomalous dimension, and a power-law suppression of the quasiparticle residue, yielding an \emph{anisotropic} marginal non-Fermi liquid at intermediate energies. Ultimately, the effective fine structure constant flows to zero, albeit only logarithmically slowly, so the marginal Fermi liquid phenomenology emerges as a broad crossover, controlled by a slowly running coupling. By contrast, for the system retains an isotropic marginal Weyl-liquid character. These predictions can be tested via scaling in thermodynamics (specific heat and compressibility), direction-dependent optical conductivity, and by anisotropic broadening of the single-particle spectral function in angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2602.17666,
title = {Anisotropic marginal Fermi liquid for Coulomb interacting generalized Weyl fermions},
author = {Gabriel Malavé and Rodrigo Soto-Garrido and Bitan Roy and Vladimir Juričić},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.17666},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
6 pages, no figures, SM as ancillary file