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We describe new conformal field theories based on symplectic fermions that can be extrapolated between 2 and 4 dimensions. The critical exponents depend continuously on the number of components N of the fermions and the dimension D. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 André LeClair

We consider the fermionic quantum criticality of anisotropic nodal point semimetals in $d = d_L + d_Q$ spatial dimensions that disperse linearly in $d_L$ dimensions, and quadratically in the remaining $d_Q$ dimensions. When subject to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-25 Mikolaj D. Uryszek , Frank Krüger , Elliot Christou

Two-dimensional (2D) Dirac fermions are a central paradigm of modern condensed matter physics, describing low-energy excitations in graphene, in certain classes of superconductors, and on surfaces of 3D topological insulators. At zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Björn Sbierski , Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus , Joel E. Moore , Ilya A. Gruzberg

The critical properties of the QED$_{3}$ Gross-Neveu-Yukawa (GNY) model in 2+1 dimensions with $N$ flavors of two-component Dirac fermions are computed to first order in the $1/N$ expansion. For the specific case of $N=2$, the critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-27 Rufus Boyack , Ahmed Rayyan , Joseph Maciejko

The theory for the vanishing of N\'eel order in the spin $S=1/2$ square lattice antiferromagnet has been the focus of attention for many decades. A consensus appears to have emerged in recent numerical studies on the antiferromagnet with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-09 Leyna Shackleton , Alex Thomson , Subir Sachdev

We present a field theory description of a quantum phase transition in two spatial dimensions between a $U(1)$ algebraic spin liquid with $N$ flavors of gapless two-component Dirac fermionic spinons and a gapped $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-26 Rufus Boyack , Chien-Hung Lin , Nikolai Zerf , Ahmed Rayyan , Joseph Maciejko

Quantum criticality within Dirac fermions harbors a plethora of exotic phenomena, attracting sustained attention in the past decades. Here, we explore the imaginary-time relaxation dynamics in a typical Dirac quantum criticality belonging…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi Zeng , Yu-Rong Shu , Zi-Xiang Li , Shuai Yin

The quantum phase transition to a $\mathbb{Z}_3$-ordered Kekul\'e valence bond solid in two-dimensional Dirac semimetals is governed by a fermion-induced quantum critical point, which renders the putatively discontinuous transition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-28 Emilio Torres , Laura Classen , Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer

The Thirring model in 2+1$d$ with $N$ Dirac flavors can exhibit spontaneous U($2N)\to$U($N)\otimes$U($N$) breaking through fermion - antifermion condensation in the limit $m\to0$. With no small parameter in play the symmetry-breaking…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-01-23 Simon Hands , Jude Worthy

We employ the recent results on the generalization of the $c$-theorem to 2+1-d to derive non-perturbative results for strongly interacting quantum field theories, including QED-3 and the critical theory corresponding to certain quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-15 Tarun Grover

We perform a renormalization group analysis of some important effective field theoretic models for deconfined spinons. We show that deconfined spinons are critical for an isotropic SU(N) Heisenberg antiferromagnet, if $N$ is large enough.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Flavio S. Nogueira , Steinar Kragset , Asle Sudbo

We study chiral phase transition and confinement of matter fields in (2+1)-dimensional U(1) gauge theory of massless Dirac fermions and scalar bosons. The vanishing scalar boson mass, $r=0$, defines a quantum critical point between the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-07 Guo-Zhu Liu , Wei Li , Geng Cheng

We compute the spectrum of SU(2) gauge theory with two, four or six Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. We investigate the scaling of the meson masses as a function of the quark mass when approaching the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-06-20 Alessandro Amato , Viljami Leino , Kari Rummukainen , Kimmo Tuominen , Sara Tähtinen

Emergent symmetries and slow crossover phenomena are central themes in quantum criticality and manifest themselves in the pseudocritical scaling experienced in the context of deconfined criticality. Here we discover its conceptual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-04 Manuel Weber

We consider relativistic U(1) gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions, with N_b species of complex bosons and N_f species of Dirac fermions at finite temperature. The quantum phase transition between the Higgs and Coulomb phases is described by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-04-07 Ribhu K. Kaul , Subir Sachdev

Continuous quantum phase transitions that are beyond the conventional paradigm of fluctuations of a symmetry breaking order parameter are challenging for theory. These phase transitions often involve emergent deconfined gauge fields at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-29 Zhen Bi , T. Senthil

Gapless Dirac fermions appear as quasiparticle excitations in various condensed-matter systems. They feature quantum critical points with critical behavior in the 2+1 dimensional Gross-Neveu universality class. The precise determination of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Bernhard Ihrig , Luminita N. Mihaila , Michael M. Scherer

We propose a resolution of the renormalization group flow for the disordered Dirac fermion theories describing the quantum Hall transition (QHT) and spin Quantum Hall transition (SQHT), which previously revealed no perturbative fixed points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-30 André LeClair

U(1) gauge theory of non-relativistic fermions interacting via compact U(1) gauge fields in the presence of a Fermi surface appears as an effective field theory in low dimensional quantum antiferromagnetism and heavy fermion liquids. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Ki-Seok Kim

We analyze the scaling behavior at and near a quantum critical point separating a semimetallic from a superfluid phase. To this end we compute the renormalization group flow for a model of attractively interacting electrons with a linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-08 Benjamin Obert , So Takei , Walter Metzner