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Interplay of Coulomb interaction and disorder in a two-dimensional semi-Dirac fermion system

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2016-11-10 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

It was recently found that Coulomb interaction can induce a series of nontrivial spectral and transport properties in a two-dimensional anisotropic Weyl semimetal. Different from graphehe that is basically an ordinary Fermi liquid, the Coulomb interaction in this system makes the Fermi liquid description invalid over a wide range of energy scales. We present a systematic renormalization group analysis of the interplay of Coulomb interaction and quenched disorder, and show that they have substantial mutual effects on each other, which then leads to a variety of quantum phase transitions and non-Fermi liquid behaviors. The low-energy physics of the system depends sensitively on the effective strength of Coulomb interaction and disorder.

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@article{arxiv.1607.07552,
  title  = {Interplay of Coulomb interaction and disorder in a two-dimensional semi-Dirac fermion system},
  author = {Peng-Lu Zhao and Jing-Rong Wang and An-Min Wang and Guo-Zhu Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07552},
  year   = {2016}
}

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16 pages, 9 figures