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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

Deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) characterizes the continuous transition beyond Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm, occurring between two phases that exhibit distinct symmetry breaking. The debate over whether genuine DQCP exists in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-06 Xuan Zou , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li , Hong Yao

We study a quantum phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in a new two-dimensional bipartite lattice model of electrons that is amenable to sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, interactions in our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-23 Hanqing Liu , Emilie Huffman , Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Ribhu K. Kaul

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

We investigate the phase diagram of moir\'e double bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides with ABBA stacking as a function of twist angle and applied pressure. At hole filling $\nu = 2$ per moir\'e unit cell, the noninteracting system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Jan Biedermann , Lukas Janssen

Thermodynamic and dynamical properties of a model of Dirac fermions with a deconfined quantum critical point (DQCP) separating an interaction-generated quantum spin-Hall insulator from an s-wave superconductor [Nature Comm.~{\bf 10}, 2658…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-14 Martin Hohenadler , Yuhai Liu , Toshihiro Sato , Zhenjiu Wang , Wenan Guo , Fakher F. Assaad

Four-component massive and massless Dirac fermions in the presence of long range Coulomb interaction and chemical potential disorder exhibit striking fermionic quantum criticality. For an odd number of flavors of Dirac fermions, the sign of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-17 Pallab Goswami , Sudip Chakravarty

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 interacting Dirac fermions on honeycomb lattice by cluster dynamical mean-field theory (CDMFT) combined with continuous time quantum Monte Carlo simulation (CTQMC). A novel scenario for the semimetal-Mott insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-07 Wei Wu , Yao-Hua Chen , Hong-Shuai Tao , Ning-Hua Tong , Wu-Ming Liu

Lorentz symmetry appears as a quite robust feature of the strongly interacting Dirac materials even though the lattice interactions break such a symmetry. We here demonstrate that the Lorentz symmetry is restored at the quantum-critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-02-29 Pablo Reiser , Vladimir Juricic

In this paper the phase diagram of Dirac semimetals is studied within lattice Monte-Carlo simulation. In particular, we concentrate on the dynamical chiral symmetry breaking which results in semimetal/insulator transition. Using numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-07 V. V. Braguta , M. I. Katsnelson , A. Yu. Kotov , A. A. Nikolaev

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

At sufficiently low temperatures, interacting electron systems tend to develop orders. Exceptions are quantum critical point (QCP) and quantum spin liquid (QSL), where fluctuations prevent the highly entangled quantum matter to an ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-30 Yuan Da Liao , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Yang Qi

We develop an optimized continuous-field quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) algorithm to investigate the SO(5) nonlinear sigma model with a Wess-Zumino-Witten term, which describes half-filled Dirac fermions in 2+1 space-time dimensions akin to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-06 Yuan Da Liao , Bin-Bin Chen , Fakher F. Assaad , Lukas Janssen , Zi Yang Meng

We study the superfluid properties of attractively interacting fermions hopping in a family of 2D and 3D lattices in the presence of synthetic gauge fields having \pi-flux per plaquette. The reason for such a choice is that the \pi-flux…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-31 Gabriel Mazzucchi , Luca Lepori , Andrea Trombettoni

Massless 2+1D Dirac fermions arise in a variety of systems from graphene to the surfaces of topological insulators, where generating a mass is typically associated with breaking a symmetry. However, with strong interactions, a symmetric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Yi-Zhuang You , Yin-Chen He , Cenke Xu , Ashvin Vishwanath

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

In the Hamiltonian picture, free spin-$1/2$ Dirac fermions on a bipartite lattice have an $O(4)$ (spin-charge) symmetry. Here we construct an interacting lattice model with an interaction $V$, which is similar to the Hubbard interaction but…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-09-21 Emilie Huffman

Quantum critical phenomena may be qualitatively different when massless Dirac fermions are present at criticality. Using our recently-discovered fermion-sign-free Majorana quantum Monte Carlo (MQMC) method introduced by us in Ref. [1], we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-11 Zi-Xiang Li , Yi-Fan Jiang , Hong Yao

Quantum transport close to a critical point is a fundamental, but enigmatic problem due to fluctuations, persisting at all length scales. We report the scaling of optical conductivity (OC) in the \emph{collisionless} regime ($\hbar \omega…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-01 Bitan Roy , Vladimir Juricic