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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

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

We study the quantum phase transition of $U(1)$ - charged Dirac fermions Yukawa-coupled to the Kekul\'e valence bond solid order parameter with $Z_3$ symmetry of the honeycomb lattice. The symmetry allows for the presence of the term in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-30 Michael M. Scherer , Igor F. Herbut

We analyze emergent quantum multi-criticality for strongly interacting, massless Dirac fermions in two spatial dimensions ($d=2$) within the framework of Gross-Neveu-Yukawa models, by considering the competing order parameters that give…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-24 Bitan Roy , Pallab Goswami , Vladimir Juricic

According to Landau criterion, a phase transition should be first order when cubic terms of order parameters are allowed in its effective Ginzburg-Landau free energy. Recently, it was shown by renormalization group (RG) analysis that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-12 Bo-Hai Li , Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

Fluctuations can change the phase transition properties drastically. An example is the fermion-induced quantum critical point (FIQCP), in which fluctuations of the massless Dirac fermions turn a putative Landau-de Gennes first-order phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Shuai Yin , Zhi-Yao Zuo

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

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 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

A unified theory of quantum critical points beyond the conventional Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm remains unknown. According to Landau cubic criterion, phase transitions should be first-order when cubic terms of order parameters are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-23 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

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

The fluctuations-driven continuous quantum criticality has sparked tremendous interest in condensed matter physics. It has been verified that the gapless fermions fluctuations can change the nature of phase transition at criticality. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-15 Jiang Zhou , Su-peng Kou

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…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-18 Max Uetrecht , Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer , Emmanuel Stamou , Tom Steudtner

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 study an asymptotically free theory of $N$ relativistic Dirac fermions and a real scalar field coupled by Yukawa and scalar self-interactions in three dimensions using functional renormalisation. In the limit of many fermion flavours,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-22 Charlie Cresswell-Hogg , Daniel F. Litim

In this paper we investigate the nature of quantum phase transitions between two-dimensional Dirac semimetals and $Z_3$-ordered phases (e.g. Kekule valence-bond solid), where cubic terms of the order parameter are allowed in the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

Dynamical phase transition (DPT) characterizes the abrupt change of dynamical properties in nonequilibrium quantum many-body systems. It has been demonstrated that extra quantum fluctuating modes besides the conventional order parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-11 Shuai Yin , Shao-Kai Jian

We study the critical behavior of the semi-infinite Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model, a quantum field theory describing Dirac fermions interacting with bosonic fields via a Yukawa coupling. We consider Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Andrei A. Fedorenko , Ilya A. Gruzberg

The quantum phase diagram and critical behavior of two-dimensional Dirac fermions coupled to two compatible order-parameter fields with $O(N_1)\oplus O(N_2)$ symmetry is investigated. Recent numerical studies of such systems have reported…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-15 Emilio Torres , Lukas Weber , Lukas Janssen , Stefan Wessel , Michael M. Scherer

The tricritical line of the first-order chiral phase transition is investigated in the U(Nf)xU(Nf) sigma model by means of the ring improved one-loop finite temperature effective potential. To locate the tricritical line in the space of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-03-19 Junichiro Yasuda
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