Disorder driven multifractality transition in Weyl nodal loops
Abstract
The effect of short-range disorder in nodal line semimetals is studied by numerically exact means. For arbitrary small disorder, a novel semimetallic phase is unveiled for which the momentum-space amplitude of the ground-state wave function is concentrated around the nodal line and follows a multifractal distribution. At a critical disorder strength, a semimetal to compressible metal transition occurs, coinciding with a multi- to single-fractality transition. The universality class of this critical point is characterized by the correlation length and dynamical exponents. At considerably higher disorder, an Anderson metal-insulator transition takes place. Our results show that the nature of the semimetallic phase in non-clean samples is fundamentally different from a clean nodal semimetal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.06910,
title = {Disorder driven multifractality transition in Weyl nodal loops},
author = {Miguel Gonçalves and Pedro Ribeiro and Eduardo V. Castro and Miguel A. N. Araújo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06910},
year = {2020}
}