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Critical transport in weakly disordered semiconductors and semimetals

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-04-29 v3 Quantum Gases Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Motivated by Weyl semimetals and weakly doped semiconductors, we study transport in a weakly disordered semiconductor with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion ξkkα\xi_{\bf k}\propto k^\alpha. We show, that in 2α2\alpha dimensions short-correlated disorder experiences logarithmic renormalisation from all energies in the band. We study the case of a general dimension dd using a renormalisation group, controlled by an ε=2αd\varepsilon=2\alpha-d-expansion. Above the critical dimensions, conduction exhibits a localisation-delocalisation phase transition or a sharp crossover (depending on the symmetries of the Hamiltonian) as a function of disorder strength. We utilise this analysis to compute the low-temperature conductivity in Weyl semimetals and weakly doped semiconductors near and below the critical disorder point.

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@article{arxiv.1402.3737,
  title  = {Critical transport in weakly disordered semiconductors and semimetals},
  author = {S. V. Syzranov and L. Radzihovsky and V. Gurarie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3737},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures + 4 pages, 4 figures of Supplemental Material; as published