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The effect of short-range disorder in nodal line semimetals is studied by numerically exact means. For arbitrary small disorder, a novel semimetallic phase is unveiled for which the momentum-space amplitude of the ground-state wave function…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-04-08 Miguel Gonçalves , Pedro Ribeiro , Eduardo V. Castro , Miguel A. N. Araújo

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

Disordered non-interacting systems in sufficiently high dimensions have been predicted to display a non-Anderson disorder-driven transition that manifests itself in the critical behaviour of the density of states and other physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 S. V. Syzranov , P. M. Ostrovsky , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky

With electron and hole pockets touching at the Weyl node, type-II Weyl semimetal is a newly proposed topological state distinct from its type-I cousin. We numerically study the localization effect for tilted type-I as well as type-II Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Yijia Wu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We study the effect of disorder on the spacetime supersymmetry that is proposed to emerge at the quantum critical point of pair density wave transition in (2+1)D Dirac semimetals and (3+1)D Weyl semimetals. In the (2+1)D Dirac semimetal, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-02 Xue-Jia Yu , Peng-Lu Zhao , Shao-Kai Jian , Zhiming Pan

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to novel mechanisms of transport, which manifest themselves in unconventional types of electromagnetic response. Prominent examples of transport phenomena particular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

We investigate the nature of the magnetic phase transition induced by the short-ranged electron-electron interactions in a Weyl semimetal by using the perturbative renormalization-group method. We find that the critical point associated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-19 Yu-Li Lee , Yu-Wen Lee

Quantum phase transitions of three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals (WSMs) subject to uncorrelated on-site disorder are investigated through quantum conductance calculations and finite-size scaling of localization length. Contrary to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-27 Ying Su , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

Diffusion, a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, is a consequence of particle number conservation and locality, in systems with sufficient damping. In this paper we consider diffusive processes in the bulk of Weyl semimetals, which are exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Rudro R. Biswas , Shinsei Ryu

Topological Weyl semimetals, besides manifesting chiral anomaly, can also accommodate a disorder-driven unconventional quantum phase transition into a metallic phase. A fundamentally and practically important question in this regard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic , Sankar Das Sarma

Three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl semimetals exhibit a disorder-induced quantum phase transition between a semimetallic phase at weak disorder and a diffusive-metallic phase at strong disorder. Despite considerable effort, both numerically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Björn Sbierski , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

Typical Weyl semimetals host chiral surface states and hence show an anomalous Hall response. Although a Weyl semimetal phase is known to be robust against weak disorder, the influence of disorder on chiral states is not fully clarified so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Yositake Takane

Disorder effects are especially pronounced around nodal points in linearly dispersing bandstructures as present in graphene or Weyl semimetals. Despite the enormous experimental and numerical progress, even a simple quantity like the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Björn Sbierski , Kevin A. Madsen , Piet W. Brouwer , Christoph Karrasch

We theoretically study the single particle Green function of a three dimensional disordered Weyl semimetal using a combination of techniques. These include analytic $T$-matrix and renormalization group methods with complementary regimes of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-15 J. H. Pixley , Yang-Zhi Chou , Pallab Goswami , David A. Huse , Rahul Nandkishore , Leo Radzihovsky , S. Das Sarma

The double Weyl semimetal (DWSM) is a newly proposed topological material that hosts Weyl points with chiral charge n=2. The disorder effect in DWSM is investigated by adopting the tight-binding Hamiltonian. Using the transfer matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jiayan Zhang , Fei Wan , Xinru Wang , Ying Ding , Liehong Liao , Zhihui Chen , M. N. Chen , Yuan Li

We study the dynamics of Dirac and Weyl electrons in disordered point-node semimetals. The ballistic feature of the transport is demonstrated by simulating the wave-packet dynamics on lattice models. We show that the ballistic transport…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-07-01 Koji Kobayashi , Miku Wada , Tomi Ohtsuki

Pursuing complementary field-theoretic and numerical methods, we here paint the global phase diagram of a three-dimensional dirty Weyl system. The generalized Harris criterion, augmented by a perturbative renormalization-group (RG) analysis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-21 Bitan Roy , Robert-Jan Slager , Vladimir Juricic

We analyze theoretically the conductivity of Weyl semimetals within the self-consistent Born approximation (SCBA) in the full range of disorder strength, from weak to strong disorder. In the range of intermediate disorder, we find a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-01 J. Klier , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We study the disorder-induced phase transition of higher-order Weyl semimetals (HOWSMs) and the fate of the topological features of disordered HOWSMs. We obtain a global phase diagram of HOWSMs according to the scaling theory of Anderson…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-14 Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Bing-Lan Wu , Chui-Zhen Chen , Hua Jiang

Constructing an effective field theory in terms of doped magnetic impurities (described by an O(3) vector model with a random mass term), itinerant electrons of spin-orbit coupled semiconductors (given by a Dirac theory with a relatively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-28 Kyoung-Min Kim , Jinsu Kim , Soo-Whan Kim , Myung-Hwa Jung , Ki-Seok Kim