English

Anisotropic marginal Fermi liquid for Coulomb interacting generalized Weyl fermions

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2026-02-20 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

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 n>1n>1 of the underlying Weyl nodes. Using a Wilsonian renormalization group approach controlled by a large-NN expansion with NN as the number of Weyl fermion flavors and a gauge-consistent regularization fixed by the Ward-Takahashi identity, we uncover for n2n\ge 2 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 n=1n=1 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.

Keywords

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