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We compute the effects of generic short-range interactions on gapless electrons residing at the quantum critical point separating a two-dimensional Dirac semimetal (DSM) and a symmetry-preserving band insulator (BI). The electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-04 Bitan Roy , Matthew S. Foster

In the course of a non-equilibrium continuous phase transition, the dynamics ceases to be adiabatic in the vicinity of the critical point as a result of the critical slowing down (the divergence of the relaxation time in the neighborhood of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Adolfo del Campo , Wojciech H. Zurek

This study investigates a modified two-body Dirac equation in (2+1)-dimensional spacetime, inspired by Amelino-Camelia's doubly special relativity (DSR). We begin by deriving a covariant two-body Dirac equation that, in the absence of DSR…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Nosratollah Jafari , Abdullah Guvendi

We study the quantum critical phenomena emerging at the transition from triple-Weyl semimetal to band insulator, which is a topological phase transition described by the change of topological invariant. The critical point realizes a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-17 Jing-Rong Wang , Guo-Zhu Liu , Chang-Jin Zhang

We address the emergent quantum critical phenomena for (pseudo)spin-3/2 birefringent fermions, featuring two effective Fermi velocities, when they reside close to itinerant Mott transitions realized through spontaneous symmetry breaking and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic

We carefully study how the fermion-fermion interactions affect the low-energy states of a two-dimensional spin-$1/2$ fermionic system on the kagom\'{e} lattice with a quadratic band crossing point. With the help of the renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-07 Ya-Hui Zhai , Jing Wang

We study transitions between distinct phases of one-dimensional periodically driven (Floquet) systems. We argue that these are generically controlled by infinite-randomness fixed points of a strong-disorder renormalization group procedure.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-09-25 William Berdanier , Michael Kolodrubetz , S. A. Parameswaran , Romain Vasseur

We compute the effects of strong Hubbardlike local electronic interactions on three-dimensional four-component massless Dirac fermions, which in a noninteracting system possess a microscopic global U(1)$\otimes$SU(2) chiral symmetry. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-06 Andras Szabo , Bitan Roy

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

We highlight the exotic quantum criticality of quasi-two-dimensional single-component fermions at half-filling that are minimally coupled to a dynamical Ising gauge theory. With the numerical matrix product state based infinite density…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Umberto Borla , Snir Gazit , Sergej Moroz

We explore supersymmetry breaking in the light of a rich fixed-point structure of two-dimensional supersymmetric Wess-Zumino models with one supercharge using the functional renormalization group (RG). We relate the dynamical breaking of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Holger Gies , Franziska Synatschke , Andreas Wipf

I study the universal finite-size scaling function for the lowest gap of the quantum Ising chain with a one-parameter family of ``defect'' boundary conditions, which includes periodic, open, and antiperiodic boundary conditions as special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-16 Masaki Oshikawa

The coupling between fermionic matter and gauge fields plays a fundamental role in our understanding of nature, while at the same time posing a challenging problem for theoretical modeling. In this situation, controlled information can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-05 Lukas Janssen , Wei Wang , Michael M. Scherer , Zi Yang Meng , Xiao Yan Xu

Emergent symmetries and slow crossover phenomena are central themes in quantum criticality and manifest themselves in the pseudocritical scaling experienced in the context of deconfined criticality. Here we discover its conceptual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-04 Manuel Weber

Metallic quantum criticality is among the central theme in the understanding of correlated electronic systems, and converging results between analytical and numerical approaches are still under calling. In this work, we develop state-of-art…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Zi Hong Liu , Gaopei Pan , Xiao Yan Xu , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

We show that a wide class of unconventional quantum criticality emerges when orbital currents cause quantum phase transitions from zero-gap semiconductors such as Dirac fermions to topological insulator (TI) or Chern insulator (CI). Changes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 Moyuru Kurita , Youhei Yamaji , Masatoshi Imada

We establish the functional Renormalization Group as an exploratory tool to investigate a possible phase transition between a pre-geometric discrete phase and a geometric continuum phase in quantum gravity. In this paper, based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-03 Astrid Eichhorn , Tim Koslowski

Feedback effects due to spin fluctuation induced precursors in the fermionic quasiparticle spectrum are taken into account in the description of a quantum critical point of itinerant spin systems. A correlation length dependent spin damping…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Joerg Schmalian

Motivated by the fermion bag approach we construct a new class of Hamiltonian lattice field theories that can help us to study fermionic quantum critical points, particularly those with four-fermion interactions. Although these theories are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-03 Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan

Two formidable bottlenecks to the applicability of QMC include: (1) the sign problem and (2) algorithmic update inefficiencies. In this thesis, I overcome both these difficulties for a class of problems by extending the fermion bag approach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-30 Emilie Huffman