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We study the critical behavior of the three-dimensional (3D) Gross-Neveu (GN) model with $N_f$ Dirac fermionic flavors and quartic interactions, at the chiral ${\mathbb Z}_2$ transition in the massless ${\mathbb Z}_2$-symmetric limit. For…

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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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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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An important yet largely unsolved problem in the statistical mechanics of disordered quantum systems is to understand how quenched disorder affects quantum phase transitions in systems of itinerant fermions. In the clean limit, continuous…

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We investigate a semimetal-superconductor phase transition of two-dimensional Dirac electrons at zero temperature by large-scale and essentially unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations for the half-filled attractive Hubbard model on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-20 Yuichi Otsuka , Kazuhiro Seki , Sandro Sorella , Seiji Yunoki

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 the quantum multicritical point in a (2+1)-dimensional Dirac system between the semimetallic phase and two ordered phases that are characterized by anticommuting mass terms with $O(N_1)$ and $O(N_2)$ symmetry, respectively. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-07 Lukas Janssen , Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer

We present quantum Monte Carlo simulations for the chiral Heisenberg Gross-Neveu-Yukawa quantum phase transition of relativistic fermions with $N=4$ Dirac spinor components subject to a repulsive, local four fermion interaction in 2+1$d$.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Thomas C. Lang , Andreas M. Läuchli

We investigate the ground state phase diagram of an extended Hubbard model with $\pi$-flux hopping term at half-filling on a square lattice, with unbiased large-scale auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo simulations. As a function of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-08-05 Yuan Da Liao , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Yang Qi

Recent years witnessed an extensive development of the theory of the critical point in two-dimensional statistical systems, which allowed to prove {\it existence} and {\it conformal invariance} of the {\it scaling limit} for two-dimensional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Giovanni Antinucci

We investigate the universality of an Ising symmetry breaking phase transition of tilted two-dimensional Dirac fermions, in the type-I phase as well as at the Lifshitz transition between a type-I and a type-II semimetal, where the Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-17 Huanzhi Hu , Frank Krüger

We establish a scenario where fluctuations of new degrees of freedom at a quantum phase transition change the nature of a transition beyond the standard Landau-Ginzburg paradigm. To this end we study the quantum phase transition of gapless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-10 Laura Classen , Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer

We use the large $N$ critical point formalism to compute $d$-dimensional critical exponents at several orders in $1/N$ in an Ising Gross-Neveu universality class where the core interaction includes a Lie group generator. Specifying a…

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We study quantum multicritical behavior in a (2+1)-dimensional Gross-Neveu-Yukawa field theory with eight-component Dirac fermions coupled to two triplets of order parameters that act as Dirac masses, and transform as $(1,0) + (0,1)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-30 Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer

We measure the critical exponents of the three dimensional Gross-Neveu model with two four-component fermions. The exponents are inferred from the scaling behaviour of observables on different lattice sizes. We also calculate the exponents,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-09-25 L. Karkkainen , R. Lacaze , P. Lacock , B. Petersson

Gross-Neveu model in 2+1 dimensions exhibits a continuous transition from gapless Dirac semimetal to the gapped quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator at a finite (attractive) coupling, at which the inversion and time-reversal symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-08 Gabriel Osiander Rein , Fakher F. Assaad , Igor F. Herbut

We study two-dimensional massless Dirac fermions at neutrality, coupled to bosonic modes through a Yukawa interaction. We then examine the intriguing possibility that such a system, devoid of carriers at zero temperature, might nevertheless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-12 Veronika C. Stangier , Daniel E. Sheehy , Jörg Schmalian

In this manuscript, we study quantum criticality of Dirac fermions via large-scale numerical simulations, focusing on the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa(GNY) chiral-Ising quantum critical point with critical bosonic modes coupled with Dirac fermions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Yuzhi Liu , Wei Wang , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

In two spatial dimensions, the transition between topological and trivial Chern insulators exemplifies a class of beyond-Landau critical phenomena. We show that the interaction-driven multicritical point of this transition falls into the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-06 Zhi-Qiang Gao , Taige Wang , Dung-Hai Lee

We present the first results of numerical simulations of a 2+1 dimensional fermion field theory based on a recent proposal for a model of graphene, consisting of N_f four-component Dirac fermions moving in the plane and interacting via an…

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