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 and of this phase transition are not known precisely. Here we report a numerical calculation of the critical exponent using a minimal single-Weyl node model and a finite-size scaling analysis of conductance. Our high-precision numerical value for is incompatible with previous numerical studies on tight-binding models and with one- and two-loop calculations in an -expansion scheme. We further obtain 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}
}