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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

Taking into account the interplay between the disorder and Coulomb interaction, the phase diagram of three-dimensional anisotropic Weyl semimetal is studied by renormalization group theory. Weak disorder is irrelevant in anisotropic Weyl…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-19 Jing-Rong Wang , Wei Li , Gang Wang , Chang-Jin Zhang

The Weyl semimetals are topologically protected from a gap opening against weak disorder in three dimensions. However, a strong disorder drives this relativistic semimetal through a quantum transition towards a diffusive metallic phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-12-28 Thibaud Louvet , David Carpentier , Andrei A. Fedorenko

The double Weyl semimetal (DWSM) is a newly proposed topological material that hosts Weyl points with chiral charge n=2. The disorder effect in DWSM is investigated by adopting the tight-binding Hamiltonian. Using the transfer matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jiayan Zhang , Fei Wan , Xinru Wang , Ying Ding , Liehong Liao , Zhihui Chen , M. N. Chen , Yuan Li

We study the stability of three-dimensional incompressible Weyl semimetals in the presence of random quenched charge impurities. Combining numerical analysis and scaling theory we show that in the presence of sufficiently weak randomness…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-01 Soumya Bera , Jay D. Sau , Bitan Roy

We study the effect of disorder in systems having a non-trivial Euler class. As these recently proposed multi-gap topological phases come about by braiding non-Abelian charged band nodes residing between different bands to induce stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager

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

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

We study the density of states and magnetotransport properties of disordered Weyl semimetals, focusing on the case of a strong long-range disorder. To calculate the disorder-averaged density of states close to nodal points, we treat exactly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-28 D. A. Pesin , E. G. Mishchenko , A. Levchenko

Quantum phase transitions of three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetals (WSMs) subject to uncorrelated on-site disorder are investigated through quantum conductance calculations and finite-size scaling of localization length. Contrary to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-27 Ying Su , X. S. Wang , X. R. Wang

We study generalized multifractality characterizing fluctuations and correlations of eigenstates in disordered systems of symmetry classes AII, D, and DIII. Both metallic phases and Andersonlocalization transitions are considered. By using…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-09-20 Jonas F. Karcher , Ilya A. Gruzberg , Alexander D. Mirlin

Weyl semimetal is a solid material with isolated touching points between conduction and valence bands in its Brillouin zone -- Weyl points. Low energy excitations near these points exhibit a linear dispersion and act as relativistic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-01-24 M. E. Ismagambetov , P. M. Ostrovsky

It is commonly believed that a non-interacting disordered electronic system can undergo only the Anderson metal-insulator transition. It has been suggested, however, that a broad class of systems can display disorder-driven transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 S. V. Syzranov , L. Radzihovsky

Weyl semimetals are paradigmatic topological gapless phases in three dimensions. We here address the effect of disorder on charge transport in Weyl semimetals. For a single Weyl node with energy at the degeneracy point and without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Björn Sbierski , Gregor Pohl , Emil J. Bergholtz , Piet W. Brouwer

Weyl semimetals and nodal line semimetals are characterized by linear band touching at zero-dimensional points and one-dimensional lines, respectively. We predict that a circularly polarized light drives nodal line semimetals into Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-19 Zhongbo Yan , Zhong Wang

Weyl semimetals are a newly discovered class of materials that host relativistic massless Weyl fermions as their low-energy bulk excitations. Among this new class of materials, there exist two general types of semimetals that are of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Moon Jip Park , Bora Basa , Matthew J. Gilbert

We study non-interacting systems with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\xi_{\bf k}\propto k^\alpha$ and a random short-range-correlated potential. We show that, unlike the case of lower dimensions, for $d>2\alpha$ there exists a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. V. Syzranov , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky

With electron and hole pockets touching at the Weyl node, type-II Weyl semimetal is a newly proposed topological state distinct from its type-I cousin. We numerically study the localization effect for tilted type-I as well as type-II Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-09 Yijia Wu , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We study a general phase transition between spinless topological nodal-line semimetal and Weyl semimetal phases. We classify topological nodal lines into two types based on their positions and shapes, and their phase transitions depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Ryo Okugawa , Shuichi Murakami

Influence of disorder on the ferromagnetic phase transition in diluted (III,Mn)V semiconductors is investigated analytically. The regime of small disorder is addressed, and the enhancement of the critical temperature by disorder is found…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 A. L. Chudnovskiy , D. Pfannkuche