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Two-dimensional materials with interacting Dirac excitations can host quantum multicritical behavior near the phase boundaries of the semimetallic and two-ordered phases. We study such behavior in Gross--Neveu--Yukawa field theories where…

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We study phase transitions driven by fermionic double-trace deformations in gauge-gravity duality. Both the strength of the double trace deformation and the infrared conformal dimension/self-energy scaling of the quasiparticle can be used…

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We study a lattice model of interacting Dirac fermions in $(2+1)$ dimension space-time with an SU(4) symmetry. While increasing interaction strength, this model undergoes a {\it continuous} quantum phase transition from the weakly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-28 Yuan-Yao He , Han-Qing Wu , Yi-Zhuang You , Cenke Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Zhong-Yi Lu

Quantum criticality within Dirac fermions harbors a plethora of exotic phenomena, attracting sustained attention in the past decades. Here, we explore the imaginary-time relaxation dynamics in a typical Dirac quantum criticality belonging…

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We study theoretically the quantum critical phenomenon of the phase transition between the trivial insulator and the topological insulator in (3+1) dimensions, which is described by a Dirac fermion coupled to the electromagnetic field. The…

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We investigate the critical behavior of three-dimensional relativistic fermion models with a U(N_L)_L x U(1)_R chiral symmetry reminiscent of the Higgs-Yukawa sector of the standard model of particle physics. We classify all possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-04 Holger Gies , Lukas Janssen , Stefan Rechenberger , Michael M. Scherer

Two-dimensional semi-Dirac fermions are quasiparticles that disperse linearly in one direction and quadratically in the other. We investigate instabilities of semi-Dirac fermions towards charge, spin-density wave and superconducting orders,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Mikolaj D. Uryszek , Elliot Christou , Akbar Jaefari , Frank Krüger , Bruno Uchoa

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

Gross-Neveu-Yukawa-type models such as the chiral Ising, chiral XY, and chiral Heisenberg models, serve as effective descriptions of two-dimensional Dirac semi-metals undergoing quantum phase transitions into various symmetry-broken ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-17 Mireia Tolosa-Simeón , Laura Classen , Michael M. Scherer

We consider two-dimensional Fermi systems with quadratic band touching and $C_3$ symmetry, as realizable in Bernal-stacked honeycomb bilayers. Within a renormalization-group analysis, we demonstrate the existence of a quantum critical point…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-20 Shouryya Ray , Matthias Vojta , Lukas Janssen

Employing the renormalization group approach, we carefully investigate the critical behavior of two-dimensional tilted semi-Dirac semimetals induced by the fermion-fermion interactions in the low-energy regime. After incorporating all…

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We analyze the quantum phase transition between a semimetal and a superfluid in a model of attractively interacting fermions with a linear dispersion. The quantum critical properties of this model cannot be treated by the Hertz-Millis…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-06 P. Strack , S. Takei , W. Metzner

We present evidence that two dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of random Abelian gauge potential exhibit a phase transition when the disorder strength exceeds a certain critical value. We argue that this phase transition has novel…

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Emergent symmetry in Dirac system means that the system acquires an enlargement of two basic symmetries at some special critical point. The continuous quantum criticality between the two symmetry broken phases can be described within the…

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Understanding the correlation effects in unconventional topological materials, in which the fermion excitations take unusual dispersion, is an important topic in recent condensed matter physics. We study the influence of short-range…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-01 Jing-Rong Wang , Wei Li , Chang-Jin Zhang

Motivated by the physics of graphene, we consider a model of N species of 2+1 dimensional four-component massless Dirac fermions interacting through a 3D instantaneous Coulomb interaction. We show that in the limit of infinitely strong…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-07-11 D. T. Son

Spinless fermions on a honeycomb lattice provide a minimal realization of lattice Dirac fermions. Repulsive interactions between nearest neighbors drive a quantum phase transition from a Dirac semimetal to a charge-density-wave state…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-09 Lei Wang , Philippe Corboz , Matthias Troyer

Quantum critical phenomena may be qualitatively different when massless Dirac fermions are present at criticality. Using our recently-discovered fermion-sign-free Majorana quantum Monte Carlo (MQMC) method introduced by us in Ref. [1], we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-11 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

We study a quantum phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in a new two-dimensional bipartite lattice model of electrons that is amenable to sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, interactions in our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-23 Hanqing Liu , Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Ribhu K. Kaul

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