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Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model at three loops and Ising critical behavior of Dirac systems

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-10-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Dirac and Weyl fermions appear as quasi-particle excitations in many different condensed-matter systems. They display various quantum transitions which represent unconventional universality classes related to the variants of the Gross-Neveu model. In this work we study the bosonized version of the standard Gross-Neveu model -- the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory -- at three-loop order, and compute critical exponents in 4ϵ4-\epsilon dimensions for general number of fermion flavors. Our results fully encompass the previously known two-loop calculations, and agree with the known three-loop results in the purely bosonic limit of the theory. We also find the exponents to satisfy the emergent super-scaling relations in the limit of a single-component fermion, order by order up to three loops. Finally, we apply the computed series for the exponents and their Pad\'e approximants to several phase transitions of current interest: metal-insulator transitions of spin-1/2 and spinless fermions on the honeycomb lattice, emergent supersymmetric surface field theory in topological phases, as well as the disorder-induced quantum transition in Weyl semimetals. Comparison with the results of other analytical and numerical methods is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08801,
  title  = {Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model at three loops and Ising critical behavior of Dirac systems},
  author = {Luminita N. Mihaila and Nikolai Zerf and Bernhard Ihrig and Igor F. Herbut and Michael M. Scherer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08801},
  year   = {2017}
}

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