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We show that a class of compounds with $I$4/$mcm$ crystalline symmetry hosts three-dimensional semi-Dirac fermions. Unlike the known two-dimensional semi-Dirac points, the degeneracy of these three-dimensional semi-Dirac points is not…

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The three-dimensional (3D) Dirac point, where two Weyl points overlap in momentum space, is usually unstable and hard to realize. Here we show, based on the first-principles calculations and effective model analysis, that crystalline…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-05-25 Zhijun Wang , Yan Sun , Xingqiu Chen , Cesare Franchini , Gang Xu , Hongming Weng , Xi Dai , Zhong Fang

A theory is developed for the density and temperature dependent carrier conductivity in doped three-dimensional (3D) Dirac materials focusing on resistive scattering from screened Coulomb disorder due to random charged impurities (e.g.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , Hongki Min

Weyl semimetals are phases of matter with excitations effectively described by massless Dirac fermions. Their critical nature makes unclear the persistence of such phase in presence of disorder. We present a theorem ensuring the stability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-08 Vieri Mastropietro

Magnetic impurities in three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl systems are shown to exhibit a fascinatingly diverse range of Kondo physics, with distinctive experimental spectroscopic signatures. When the Fermi level is precisely at the Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-22 Andrew K. Mitchell , Lars Fritz

We study the effects of disorder on semi-infinite Weyl and Dirac semimetals where the presence of a boundary leads to the formation of either Fermi arcs/rays or Dirac surface states. Using a local version of the self-consistent Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Eric Brillaux , Andrei A. Fedorenko

We study the Quantum Electrodynamics of 2D and 3D Dirac semimetals by means of a self-consistent resolution of the Schwinger-Dyson equations, aiming to obtain the respective phase diagrams in terms of the relative strength of the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 J. Gonzalez

We consider 2D Dirac fermions in the presence of three types of disorder: random scalar potential, random gauge potential and random mass with long-range correlations decaying as a power law. Using various methods such as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-29 Andrei A. Fedorenko , David Carpentier , Edmond Orignac

We consider the effect of disorder on the spectrum of quasiparticles in the point-node and nodal-line superconductors. Due to the anisotropic dispersion of quasiparticles disorder scattering may render the Hamiltonian describing these…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-08 Alexander A. Zyuzin , Pascal Simon

We present analytic expressions for the electronic contributions to the linear conductivity $\sigma^{(1)}_{3d}(\omega)$ and the third order optical conductivity $\sigma^{(3)}_{3d}(\omega_1,\omega_2,\omega_3)$ of three dimensional massless…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-15 J. L. Cheng , J. E. Sipe , S. W. Wu

We study Weyl semimetals in the presence of generic disorder, consisting of a random vector potential as well as a random scalar potential. We derive renormalization group flow equations to second order in the disorder strength. These flow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Björn Sbierski , Kevin S. C. Decker , Piet W. Brouwer

Two-dimensional Dirac semimetals with a single massless Dirac cone exhibit the parity anomaly. Usually, such a kind of anomalous topological semimetallic phase in real materials is unstable where any amount of disorder can drive it into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Zhen Ning , Xianyong Ding , Dong-Hui Xu , Rui Wang

The material termed three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal has attracted great interests recently, since it is an electronic analogue to two-dimensional graphene. Starting from this novel phase, various topologically distinct phases may be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-17 L. P. He , X. C. Hong , J. K. Dong , J. Pan , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Y. Li

We investigate the scaling properties of the recently acquired fermionic non--linear $\sigma$--model which controls gapless diffusive modes in a two--dimensional disordered system of Dirac electrons beyond charge neutrality. The transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Andreas Sinner , Klaus Ziegler

Dirac semimetals (DSMs), characterized by linear dispersion relations in their electronic band structure, have gained prominence due to their unique topological features and potential applications in electronic devices. Through systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Nikhilesh Singh , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Poorva Singh

Three-dimensional Dirac semimetals, a three-dimensional analogue of graphene, are unusual quantum materials with massless Dirac fermions, which can be further converted to Weyl fermions by breaking time reversal or inversion symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Li-Xian Wang , Cai-Zhen Li , Da-Peng Yu , Zhi-Min Liao

We calculate the tunneling density-of-states (DOS) of a disorder-free two-dimensional interacting electron system with a massless-Dirac band Hamiltonian. The DOS exhibits two main features: i) linear growth at large energies with a slope…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-10 A. Principi , Marco Polini , Reza Asgari , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate the mutual influence of tilt, disorder, and Coulomb interaction in a type-I Dirac semimetal (DSM) with $x$-direction tilt by performing a renormalization group analysis. The interplay between disorder and ordinary tilt…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-25 Peng-Lu Zhao , An-Min Wang

We study the different phases in the Quantum Electrodynamics of 3D Dirac semimetals depending on the number $N$ of Dirac fermions, using renormalization group methods and the self-consistent resolution of the Schwinger-Dyson equation. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. Gonzalez

Weyl and Dirac (semi)metals in three dimensions have robust gapless electronic band structures. Their massless single-body energy spectra are protected by symmetries such as lattice translation, (screw) rotation and time reversal. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-06 Syed Raza , Alexander Sirota , Jeffrey C. Y. Teo