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Fermionic multicriticality near Kekul\'{e} valence-bond ordering in honeycomb lattice

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-06-12 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze the possibility of emergent quantum multicritical points (MCPs) with enlarged chiral symmetry, when strongly interacting gapless Dirac fermions acquire comparable propensity toward the nucleation of Kekul\'{e} valence-bond solid (KVBS) and charge-density-wave (Nb=1N_b=1) or ss-wave pairing (Nb=2N_b=2) or anti-ferromagnet (Nb=3N_b=3) in honeycomb lattice, where NbN_b counts the number of bosonic order parameter components. Besides the cubic terms present in the order parameter description of KVBS due to the breaking of a discrete Z3Z_3 symmetry, quantum fluctuations generate new cubic vertices near the high symmetry MCPs. All cubic terms are strongly relevant at the bare level near three spatial dimensions, about which we perform a leading order renormalization group analysis of coupled Gross-Neveu-Yukawa field theory. We show that due to non-trivial Yukawa interactions among gapless bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom, all cubic terms ultimately become irrelevant at an O(2+Nb)O(2+N_b) symmetric MCP, near two spatial dimensions, where Nb=1,2,3N_b=1,2,3. Therefore, MCPs with an enlarged O(2+Nb)O(2+N_b) symmetry near KVBS ordering are stable.

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@article{arxiv.1902.08616,
  title  = {Fermionic multicriticality near Kekul\'{e} valence-bond ordering in honeycomb lattice},
  author = {Bitan Roy and Vladimir Juricic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.08616},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 Pages, 2 Figures: Published version in Phys. Rev. B (Supplementary: As ancillary file)