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Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-03 Hennadii Yerzhakov , Joseph Maciejko

We compute the effects of strong Hubbardlike local electronic interactions on three-dimensional four-component massless Dirac fermions, which in a noninteracting system possess a microscopic global U(1)$\otimes$SU(2) chiral symmetry. A…

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We consider 1+1 dimensional SU(N) gauge theory coupled to a multiplet of massive Dirac fermions transforming in the adjoint representation of the gauge group. The only global symmetry of this theory is a U(1) associated with the conserved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-18 Rajesh Gopakumar , Akikazu Hashimoto , Igor R. Klebanov , Subir Sachdev , Kareljan Schoutens

The deconfined quantum critical point (QCP), separating the N\'eel and valence bond solid phases in a 2D antiferromagnet, was proposed as an example of $2+1$D criticality fundamentally different from standard Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson-Fisher…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-27 Chong Wang , Adam Nahum , Max A. Metlitski , Cenke Xu , T. Senthil

We investigate the quantum antiferromagnetism arising from algebraic spin liquid via spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking. We claim that in the antiferromagnet massive Dirac spinons can appear to make broad continuum spectrum at high…

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

Quantum criticality, a manifestation of emergent scale invariance in electron wavefunctions arises from intricate many-body quantum entanglement. One of the natural venues for the criticality is clean undoped Dirac semimetals, known as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-03 Eun-Gook Moon , Yong Baek Kim

The coupling between fermionic matter and gauge fields plays a fundamental role in our understanding of nature, while at the same time posing a challenging problem for theoretical modeling. In this situation, controlled information can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-05 Lukas Janssen , Wei Wang , Michael M. Scherer , Zi Yang Meng , Xiao Yan Xu

We investigate the development of a gapped phase in the field theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. In the large-N approximation, we show that the chiral symmetry is only broken below a critical number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 J. Gonzalez

We provide an extended lattice study of the SU(2) gauge theory coupled to one Dirac fermion flavour ($N_{\mathrm{f}} =1$) transforming in the adjoint representation as the continuum limit is approached. This investigation is supplemented by…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-04-13 Andreas Athenodorou , Ed Bennett , Georg Bergner , Pietro Butti , Julian Lenz , Biagio Lucini

We study Quantum Electrodynamics in d=3 (QED_3) coupled to N_f flavors of fermions. The theory flows to an IR fixed point for N_f larger than some critical number N_f^c. For N_f<= N_f^c, chiral-symmetry breaking is believed to take place.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-06 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Zohar Komargodski , Itamar Shamir , Emmanuel Stamou

We consider a SU(2) lattice gauge theory on the square lattice, with a single fundamental complex fermion and a single fundamental complex boson on each lattice site. Projective symmetries of the gauge-charged fermions are chosen so that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-03 Maine Christos , Henry Shackleton , Subir Sachdev , Zhu-Xi Luo

Previous analytical studies of quantum electrodynamics in $2+1$ dimensions (QED3) have shown the existence of a critical number of fermions for onset of chiral symmetry breaking, the most known being the value $N_c\approx3.28$ obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-13 V. P. Gusynin , P. K. Pyatkovskiy

The quantum phase diagram and critical behavior of two-dimensional Dirac fermions coupled to two compatible order-parameter fields with $O(N_1)\oplus O(N_2)$ symmetry is investigated. Recent numerical studies of such systems have reported…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-15 Emilio Torres , Lukas Weber , Lukas Janssen , Stefan Wessel , Michael M. Scherer

QCD with gauge group $SU(N_c)$ flows to an interacting conformal fixed point in three spacetime dimensions when the number of four-component Dirac fermions $N_f \gg N_c$. We study the stability of this fixed point via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-28 Hart Goldman , Michael Mulligan

It is shown the analysis [1] for QED in 2+1 dimensions with N four-component fermions in the leading and next-to-leading orders of the 1/N expansion. As it was demonstrated in [1] the range of the admissible values N, where the dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 A. V. Kotikov

We investigate the quantum phase transition from antiferromagnetism ($AF$) to algebraic spin liquid ($ASL$). {\it We propose that spin 1/2 fermionic spinons in the $ASL$ fractionalize into spin 1/2 bosonic spinons and spinless fermions at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ki-Seok Kim

We investigate the ground state phase diagram of an extended Hubbard model with $\pi$-flux hopping term at half-filling on a square lattice, with unbiased large-scale auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo simulations. As a function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-05 Yuan Da Liao , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Yang Qi

We analyze emergent quantum multi-criticality for strongly interacting, massless Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions ($d=2$) within the framework of Gross-Neveu-Yukawa models, by considering the competing order parameters that give…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-24 Bitan Roy , Pallab Goswami , Vladimir Juricic

Dynamical chiral symmetry breaking (D$\chi$SB) is studied within ($2+1$)-dimensional QED with $N$ four-component fermions. The leading and next-to-leading orders of the $N$ expansion were computed exactly in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-13 A. V. Kotikov , S. Teber

We propose that, in SU(3) gauge theories with fundamental quarks, confinement can be inferred from spectral density of the Dirac operator. This stems from the proposition that its possible behaviors are exhausted by three distinct types…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-09-02 Andrei Alexandru , Ivan Horváth