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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…

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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…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Gurarie

We consider the effects of weak quenched fermionic disorder on the quantum-phase transition between the Dirac semimetal and charge density wave (CDW) insulator in two spatial dimensions. The symmetry breaking transition is described by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-25 Mikolaj D. Uryszek , Frank Krüger

The anomalous spin Hall conductivity in the holographic model of Dirac semimetals with two Dirac nodes protected by the crystal symmetry has been elaborated. Such system besides the chiral anomaly possesses another anomaly which is related…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-19 Bartłomiej Kiczek , Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokiński

We report the first observation of Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations and quantized Hall resistance in the multilayered massless Dirac fermion system $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ with tilted cones. Holes were injected into the thin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Tajima , T. Yamauchi , T. Yamaguchi , M. Suda , Y. Kawasugi , H. M. Yamamoto , R. Kato , Y. Nishio , K. Kajita

We study the effects of an external magnetic field on the superconducting properties of a quasi-two-dimensional system of Dirac electrons at an arbitrary temperature. An explicit expression for the superconducting gap is obtained as a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-26 E. C. Marino , Lizardo H. C. M. Nunes

Topological Dirac semimetals are a class of semimetals that host symmetry-protected Dirac points near the Fermi level, which arise due to a band inversion of the conduction and valence bands. In this work, we study the less explored class…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-02 Heng Gao , Jeremy Strockoz , Mario Frakulla , Jörn W. F. Venderbos , Hongming Weng

We analyze the chiral symmetry breaking in a planar four-fermion model with non-null chemical potential, temperature and including the effect of the tilt of the Dirac cone. The system is modeled with a $(2 + 1)$-dimensional Gross-Neveu-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Y. M. P. Gomes , Rudnei O. Ramos

We demonstrate that, apart from the chiral anomaly, Dirac semimetals possess another quantum anomaly, which we call the mirror anomaly, and which manifests in a singular response of the Dirac semimetal to an applied magnetic field. Namely,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 A. A. Burkov

We explore the physical properties of a unified microscopic theory for the coexistence of superconductivity and charge density waves in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. In the case of particle-hole symmetry the elementary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Uchoa , G. G. Cabrera , A. H. Castro Neto

In the context of 2+1 dimensional Dirac materials, we consider electromagnetic interactions alongside a type of spin-dependent Hubbard interaction. The former is described by PQED theory, while the latter corresponds to an effective theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-17 Qiao Yang , Yu-Biao Wu , Wu-Ming Liu

The recent discovery of Dirac semimetals represents a new achievement in our fundamental understanding of topological states of matter. Due to their topological surface states, high mobility, and exotic properties associated with bulk Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Xianbo Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang , Zhengfang Liu , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou

We study the effect of quenched disorder on the semimetal-superconductor quantum phase transition in a model of two-dimensional Dirac semimetal with $N$ flavors of two-component Dirac fermions, using perturbative renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-03 Hennadii Yerzhakov , Joseph Maciejko

We propose an unconventional type of Hall effect in a topological Dirac semimetal with ferromagnetic electrodes. The topological Dirac semimetal itself has time-reversal symmetry, whereas attached ferromagnetic electrodes break it, causing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 Koji Kobayashi , Kentaro Nomura

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

We analyze the scaling behavior at and near a quantum critical point separating a semimetallic from a superfluid phase. To this end we compute the renormalization group flow for a model of attractively interacting electrons with a linear…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-08 Benjamin Obert , So Takei , Walter Metzner

The parity anomalous semimetal is a topological state of matter characterized by its semi-metallic nature and a quantum Hall conductance of one-half $e^{2}/h$ ($e$ is the elementary charge and $h$ is the Planck constant). Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Shi-Hao Bi , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

A key problem in the field of quantum criticality is to understand the nature of quantum phase transitions in systems of interacting itinerant fermions, motivated by experiments on a variety of strongly correlated materials. Much attention…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Rufus Boyack , Hennadii Yerzhakov , Joseph Maciejko

We study the properties of an ultracold Fermi gas loaded in a square optical lattice and subjected to an external and classical non-Abelian gauge field. We calculate the energy spectrum of the system and show that the Dirac points in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Li Wang , Libin Fu

The topological nature of topological insulators are related to the symmetries present in the material, for example, quantum spin Hall effect can be observed in topological insulators with time reversal symmetry, while broken time reversal…