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Tilted Dirac superconductor at quantum criticality: Restoration of Lorentz symmetry

Superconductivity 2024-02-29 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Lorentz symmetry appears as a quite robust feature of the strongly interacting Dirac materials even though the lattice interactions break such a symmetry. We here demonstrate that the Lorentz symmetry is restored at the quantum-critical point (QCP) separating the tilted Dirac semimetal, breaking this symmetry already at the noninteracting level, from a gapped ss-wave superconducting instability. To this end, we employ a one-loop ϵ=(3D)\epsilon=(3-D)-expansion close to the D=3D=3 upper critical dimension of the corresponding Gross-Neveu-Yukawa field theory. In particular, we show that the tilt parameter is irrelevant and ultimately vanishes at the QCP separating the two phases. In fact, as we argue here, such a Lorentz symmetry restoration may be generic for the strongly interacting tilted Dirac semimetals, irrespective of whether they feature mirror-symmetric or mirror-asymmetric tilting, and is also insensitive to whether the instability represents an insulator or a gapped superconductor. The proposed scenario can be tested in the quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the interacting tilted Dirac fermion lattice models.

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@article{arxiv.2311.12797,
  title  = {Tilted Dirac superconductor at quantum criticality: Restoration of Lorentz symmetry},
  author = {Pablo Reiser and Vladimir Juricic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.12797},
  year   = {2024}
}

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22 pages, 4 figures