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Quantum Critical Exponents for a Disordered Three-Dimensional Weyl Node

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-09-30 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

Three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl semimetals exhibit a disorder-induced quantum phase transition between a semimetallic phase at weak disorder and a diffusive-metallic phase at strong disorder. Despite considerable effort, both numerically and analytically, the critical exponents ν\nu and zz of this phase transition are not known precisely. Here we report a numerical calculation of the critical exponent ν=1.47±0.03\nu=1.47\pm0.03 using a minimal single-Weyl node model and a finite-size scaling analysis of conductance. Our high-precision numerical value for ν\nu is incompatible with previous numerical studies on tight-binding models and with one- and two-loop calculations in an ϵ\epsilon-expansion scheme. We further obtain z=1.49±0.02z=1.49\pm0.02 from the scaling of the conductivity with chemical potential.

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@article{arxiv.1505.07374,
  title  = {Quantum Critical Exponents for a Disordered Three-Dimensional Weyl Node},
  author = {Björn Sbierski and Emil J. Bergholtz and Piet W. Brouwer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07374},
  year   = {2015}
}
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