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We study a spin $S$ quantum Heisenberg model on the Fe lattice of the rare-earth oxypnictide superconductors. Using both large $S$ and large $N$ methods, we show that this model exhibits a sequence of two phase transitions: from a high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chen Fang , Hong Yao , Wei-Feng Tsai , JiangPing Hu , Steven A. Kivelson

The fluctuations of massless Dirac fermion can not only turn a first-order bosonic phase transition (in the Landau sense) to a quantum critical point, but also work reversely to enhance the first-order transition itself, depending on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-03 Yuzhi Liu , Zi Yang Meng , Shuai Yin

Motivated by the physics of spin-orbital liquids, we study a model of interacting Dirac fermions on a bilayer honeycomb lattice at half filling, featuring an explicit global SO(3)$\times$U(1) symmetry. Using large-scale auxiliary-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-25 Zi Hong Liu , Matthias Vojta , Fakher F. Assaad , Lukas Janssen

We study the quantum phase transition of $U(1)$ - charged Dirac fermions Yukawa-coupled to the Kekul\'e valence bond solid order parameter with $Z_3$ symmetry of the honeycomb lattice. The symmetry allows for the presence of the term in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-30 Michael M. Scherer , Igor F. Herbut

Electrons on honeycomb or pi-flux lattices obey effective massless Dirac equation at low energies and at the neutrality point, and should suffer quantum phase transitions into various Mott insulators and superconductors at strong two-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-02 Igor F. Herbut , Subrata Mandal

We investigate a 2+1-D interacting Dirac semimetal with onsite flavor SU(2) symmetry. Topological considerations imply that the skyrmions in the flavor-symmetry-breaking phase carry electron quantum numbers, motivating a dual bosonized low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 Xiao Yan Xu , Tarun Grover

According to Landau criterion, a phase transition should be first order when cubic terms of order parameters are allowed in its effective Ginzburg-Landau free energy. Recently, it was shown by renormalization group (RG) analysis that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-12 Bo-Hai Li , Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

We numerically study the interplay between superconductivity and disorder on the graphene honeycomb lattice with on-site Hubbard attractive interactions U using a spatially inhomogeneous self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) approach.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-30 Ionut-Dragos Potirniche , Joseph Maciejko , Rahul Nandkishore , S. L. Sondhi

We characterize, by means of large-scale fermion quantum Monte Carlo simulations, metallic and deconfined quantum phase transitions in a bilayer honeycomb model in terms of their quantum critical and finite-temperature properties.The model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-17 Zi Hong Liu , Matthias Vojta , Fakher F. Assaad , Lukas Janssen

Elucidating the phase diagram of lattice gauge theories with fermionic matter in 2+1 dimensions has become a problem of considerable interest in recent years, motivated by physical problems ranging from chiral symmetry breaking in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-15 Nikolai Zerf , Rufus Boyack , Peter Marquard , John A. Gracey , Joseph Maciejko

Recent experiments in graphene heterostructures have observed Chern insulators - integer and fractional Quantum Hall states made possible by a periodic substrate potential. Here we study theoretically the competition between different Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-25 Jong Yeon Lee , Chong Wang , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath , Yin-Chen He

In this paper we study transport properties of electrons on the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. We consider a half-filled system in the vicinity of a symmetry-breaking transition from a semimetallic phase towards an insulating phase with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Lars Fritz

We use the effective-field theory with correlations based on different cluster sizes to investigate phase diagrams of the frustrated Ising antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice with isotropic interactions of the strength $J_1 < 0$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-01 A. Bobák , T. Lučivjanský , M. Žukovič , M. Borovský , T. Balcerzak

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

We discuss the critical behavior of several three-dimensional magnetic systems, such as pure and randomly dilute (anti)ferromagnets and stacked triangular antiferromagnets. We also discuss the nature of the multicritical points that arise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pasquale Calabrese , Andrea Pelissetto , Ettore Vicari

The low-energy theory of graphene exhibits spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking due to pairing of quasiparticles and holes, corresponding to a semimetal-insulator transition at strong Coulomb coupling. We report a Lattice Monte Carlo study…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-18 Joaquín E. Drut , Timo A. Lähde

The Gross-Neveu-Heisenberg universality class describes a continuous quantum phase transition between a Dirac semimetal and an antiferromagnetic insulator. Such quantum critical points have originally been discussed in the context of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-02 Konstantinos Ladovrechis , Shouryya Ray , Tobias Meng , Lukas Janssen

Dirac and Weyl fermions appear as quasi-particle excitations in many different condensed-matter systems. They display various quantum transitions which represent unconventional universality classes related to the variants of the Gross-Neveu…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-25 Luminita N. Mihaila , Nikolai Zerf , Bernhard Ihrig , Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer

Within the four-loop $\ve$ expansion, we study the critical behavior of certain antiferromagnets with complicated ordering. We show that an anisotropic stable fixed point governs the phase transitions with new critical exponents. This is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrei Mudrov , Konstantin Varnashev

Materials with massless Dirac fermions can possess exceptionally strong and widely tunable optical nonlinearities. Experiments on graphene monolayer have indeed found very large third-order nonlinear responses, but the reported variation of…