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When a metal undergoes continuous quantum phase transition, the correlation length diverges at the critical point and the quantum fluctuation of order parameter behaves as a gapless bosonic mode. Generically, the coupling of this boson to…

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In this work we address the physics of individual three dimensional Weyl nodes subject to a moderate concentration of disorder. Previous analysis indicates the presence of a quantum phase transition below which disorder becomes irrelevant…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-29 Michael Buchhold , Sebastian Diehl , Alexander Altland

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

We study the electromagnetic properties of Weyl semimetals with strong interactions. Focusing on a single Weyl cone in the band structure, we induce strong interactions by coupling the Weyl fermion with a tunable coupling constant $g_f$ to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-11 V. P. J. Jacobs , Panagiotis Betzios , Umut Gursoy , H. T. C. Stoof

We study Weyl-loop semi-metals with short range interactions, focusing on the possible interaction driven instabilities. We introduce an $\epsilon$ expansion regularization scheme by means of which the possible instabilities may be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-30 Shouvik Sur , Rahul Nandkishore

In this paper, the nonlinear interaction of Weyl semimetal (WSM) with a strong driving electromagnetic wave-field is investigated. In the scope of the structure-gauge invariant low-energy nonlinear electrodynamic theory, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 H. K. Avetissian , V. N. Avetisyan , B. R. Avchyan , G. F. Mkrtchian

The phenomenon of nonlinear transport has attracted tremendous interest within the condensed matter community. We present a theoretical framework for nonlinear transport based on the nonequilibrium retarded Green's function, and examine the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-28 Mei-Wei Hu , Zhuo-Yan Fang , Hou-Jian Duan , Mou Yang , Ming-Xun Deng , Rui-Qiang Wang

The Weyl semimetal (WSM) is a newly proposed quantum state of matter. It has Weyl nodes in bulk excitations and Fermi arcs surface states. We study the effects of disorder and localization in WSMs and find three exotic phase transitions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Chui-Zhen Chen , Juntao Song , Hua Jiang , Qing-feng Sun , Ziqiang Wang , X. C. Xie

The electron-nuclear hyperfine interaction shows up in a variety of phenomena including e.g. NMR studies of correlated states and spin decoherence effects in quantum dots. Here we focus on the hyperfine coupling and the NMR spin relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Zoltán Okvátovity , Ferenc Simon , Balázs Dóra

We investigate the impact of disorder in the form of impurity scattering on a generalized version of the circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) in Weyl semimetals where the frequency detuning between the two orthogonally polarized beams is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Konstantinos Ladovrechis , Tobias Meng

We numerically study the effect of short ranged potential disorder on massless noninteracting three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl fermions, with a focus on the question of the proposed quantum critical point separating the semimetal and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-20 J. H. Pixley , David A. Huse , S. Das Sarma

Weyl points (WPs) are isolated degeneracies carrying quantized topological charges, and are therefore robust against Hermitian perturbations. WPs are predicted to spread to the Weyl exceptional rings (WERs) in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Zheng-wei Li , Jing-jing Liu , Ze-Guo Chen , Weiyuan Tang , An Chen , Bin Liang , Guancong Ma , Jian-chun Cheng

Non-Hermiticity in Weyl Hamiltonian leads to the realization of Weyl exceptional rings and flat bands inside the Weyl exceptional rings. Recently, the platform of non-Hermitian physics is extended to many-body or disordered systems where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Taiki Matsushita , Yuki Nagai , Satoshi Fujimoto

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

Weyl fermions, which are fermions with definite chiralities, can give rise to anomalous breaking of the symmetry of the physical system which they are a part of. In their (3+1)-dimensional realizations in condensed matter systems, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Jimmy A. Hutasoit , Jiadong Zang , Radu Roiban , Chao-Xing Liu

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) constitute a 3D phase with linearly-dispersing Weyl excitations at low energy, which lead to unusual electrodynamic responses and open Fermi arcs on boundaries. We derive a simple criterion to identify and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 William Witczak-Krempa , Michael Knap , Dmitry Abanin

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

Systems with the power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\epsilon_{\bf k}\propto k^\alpha$ exhibit non-Anderson disorder-driven transitions in dimensions $d>2\alpha$, as exemplified by Weyl semimetals, 1D and 2D arrays of ultracold ions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 S. V. Syzranov , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky

Impurities act as in situ probes of nontrivial electronic structure, causing real-space modulations in the density of states detected by scanning tunneling spectroscopy on the sample surface. We show that distinctive topological features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew K. Mitchell , Lars Fritz

Motivated by Weyl semimetals and weakly doped semiconductors, we study transport in a weakly disordered semiconductor with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\xi_{\bf k}\propto k^\alpha$. We show, that in $2\alpha$ dimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 S. V. Syzranov , L. Radzihovsky , V. Gurarie