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Skyrmions are emergent many-body excitations that lie at the heart of both multi-component quantum Hall-like systems and deconfined quantum criticality. In a companion article (X. Wang et al., arXiv:2507.22971), we studied a microscopic…

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We study the competition of spin- and charge-density waves and their quantum multicritical behavior for the semimetal-insulator transitions of low-dimensional Dirac fermions. Employing the effective Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory with two order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-23 Laura Classen , Igor F. Herbut , Lukas Janssen , Michael M. Scherer

The quantum phase diagram of disordered wires in a strong magnetic field is studied as a function of wire width and energy. The two-terminal conductance shows zero-temperature discontinuous transitions between exactly integer plateau values…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Struck , Bernhard Kramer , Tomi Ohtsuki , Stefan Kettemann

The low-energy behaviors of gapless double- and triple-Weyl fermions caused by the interplay of long-range Coulomb interaction and quenched disorder are studied by performing a renormalization group analysis. It is found that an arbitrarily…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu , Chang-Jin Zhang

Double Weyl nodes are topologically protected band crossing points which carry chiral charge $\pm2$. They are stabilized by $C_{4}$ point group symmetry and are predicted to occur in $\mathrm{SrSi_{2}}$ or $\mathrm{HgCr_{2}Se_{4}}$. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Björn Sbierski , Maximilian Trescher , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

We theoretically study the electromagnetic interaction in Dirac systems with $N$ nodes by using the renormalization group, which is relevant to the quantum critical phenomena of topological phase transition ($N=1$) and Weyl semimetals…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-02 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

We explore the stability of three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals subject to quasiperiodic potentials. We present numerical evidence that the semimetal is stable for weak quasiperiodic potentials, despite being unstable for weak…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-06-23 J. H. Pixley , Justin H. Wilson , David A. Huse , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Deconfined quantum criticality of two-dimensional $SU(2)$ quantum antiferromagnets featuring a transition from an antiferromagnetically ordered ground state to a so-called valence-bond solid state, is governed by a non-compact CP$^1$ model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-24 Flavio S. Nogueira , Asle Sudbo

Multi-band touchings such as 3-band, 6-band and 8-band touchings together with the emergence of high pseudospin fermions were predicted recently at high-symmetry points in three-dimensional space. In this paper, we propose a simple cubic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Motohiko Ezawa

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

Recently, the tunable Weyl-semimetal bands and the associate topological phase transition have been successfully simulated in superconducting quantum circuits [X. Tan, \textit{et al.} Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 122}, 010501 (2019)]. Since the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Mingzhu Weng , Weijun Cheng , Zhihai Wang , Haodi Liu

Recent results on the nature of the quantum critical point between Neel and valence bond solid(VBS) ordered phases of two dimensional quantum magnets are examined by an attack from the VBS side. This approach leads to an appealingly simple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Levin , T. Senthil

In this contribution we perform a density matrix renormalization group study of chains of planar rotors interacting via dipolar interactions. By exploring the ground state from weakly to strongly interacting rotors, we find the occurrence…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Tobias Serwatka , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

We have studied multi-Dirac/Weyl systems with arbitrary topological charge n in the presence of a lattice of local magnetic moments. To do so, we propose a multi-Dirac/Weyl Kondo lattice model which is analyzed through a mean-field approach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-25 Joelson F. Silva , E. Miranda

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional, topologically protected, gapless phases which show exotic phenomena such as Fermi arc surface states or negative magnetoresistance. It is an open question whether interparticle interactions can turn…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Bernhard Irsigler , Tobias Grass , Jun-Hui Zheng , Mathieu Barbier , Walter Hofstetter

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

Two-dimensional quantum systems with competing orders can feature a deconfined quantum critical point, yielding a continuous phase transition that is incompatible with the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson scenario, predicting instead a first-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-07-22 Vira Shyta , Jeroen van den Brink , Flavio S. Nogueira

We suggest a quantum procedure, based on our recent statistical theory of flow stress in polycrystalline materials under quasi-static plastic deformations, with the intention to approach a theoretical description of the Chernov-L\"uders…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 Alexander A. Reshetnyak , Eugeniy V. Shilko , Yurii P. Sharkeev

Critical phenomena and quantum phase transitions are paradigmatic concepts in modern condensed matter physics. A central example in the field of mesoscopic physics is the localization-delocalization (metal-insulator) quantum phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-19 P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin

We show that certain three-dimensional multigap topological insulators can host quantized integrated shift photoconductivities due to bulk invariants that are defined under reality conditions imposed by additional symmetries. We recast the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Robert-Jan Slager