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Magnetic catalysis in weakly interacting hyperbolic Dirac materials

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-12-11 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

Due to the linearly vanishing density of states, emergent massless Dirac quasiparticles resulting from the free fermion motion in a family of two-dimensional half-filled bipartite hyperbolic lattices feature dynamic mass generation through quantum phase transitions only for sufficiently strong finite-range Coulomb repulsion. As such, strong nearest-neighbor Coulomb repulsion (VV) favors the nucleation of a charge-density-wave (CDW) order with a staggered pattern of average fermionic density between two sublattices of bipartite hyperbolic lattices. Considering a collection of spinless fermions (for simplicity), here we show that application of strong external magnetic fields by virtue of producing a \emph{finite} density of states near the zero energy triggers the condensation of the CDW order even for \emph{infinitesimal} VV. The proposed curved space magnetic catalysis mechanism is operative for uniform and inhomogeneous (bell-shaped) magnetic fields. We present scaling of the CDW order with the total flux enclosed by hyperbolic Dirac materials for a wide range of (especially subcritical) VV.

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@article{arxiv.2305.11174,
  title  = {Magnetic catalysis in weakly interacting hyperbolic Dirac materials},
  author = {Bitan Roy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.11174},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Published version in PRB: 10 Pages, 7 Figures (change in authorship)

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