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Disorder in tilted Weyl semimetals from a renormalization group perspective

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-10-25 v1

Abstract

Isolated Weyl cones in a disordered environment do not show the phenomenon of Anderson localization due to the abscence of backscattering processes. However, besides the conventional three dimensional diffusive metal, an additional semimetallic phase can form. In this paper we study the effect of tilt on the physics of disorder in isolated Weyl cones. Our main finding is that while the semimetallic phase remains a stable phase, tilt decreases the size of the semimetallic region. Conversely, disorder increases the effective tilt of the quasiparticle excitations.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10506,
  title  = {Disorder in tilted Weyl semimetals from a renormalization group perspective},
  author = {Tycho S. Sikkenk and Lars Fritz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10506},
  year   = {2017}
}

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7 pages, 7 figures