English
Related papers

Related papers: Metallic and Deconfined Quantum Criticality in Dir…

200 papers

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

Dirac semimetals, the materials featured with discrete linearly crossing points (called Dirac points) between four bands, are critical states of topologically distinct phases. Such gapless topological states have been accomplished by a…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-20 Xiangxi Cai , Liping Ye , Chunyin Qiu , Meng Xiao , Rui Yu , Manzhu Ke , Zhengyou Liu

Dirac- and Weyl point- and line-node semimetals are characterized by a zero band gap with simultaneously vanishing density of states. Given a sufficient interaction strength, such materials can undergo an interaction instability, e.g., into…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-10 R. Matthias Geilhufe , Bart Olsthoorn

We consider spin-half quantum antiferromagnets in two spatial dimensions in the quantum limit, where the spins are in a valence bond solid (VBS) phase. The transitions between two such VBS phases is studied. In some cases, an interesting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Ashvin Vishwanath , L. Balents , T. Senthil

We propose two possible experimental realizations of a 2+1 dimensional spacetime supersymmetry at a quantum critical point on the surface of three dimensional topological insulators. The quantum critical point between the semi-metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-02-17 Pedro Ponte , Sung-Sik Lee

We rigorously analyze the quantum phase transition between a metallic and an insulating phase in (non solvable) interacting spin chains or one dimensional fermionic systems. In particular, we prove the persistence of Luttinger liquid…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-16 F. Bonetto , V. Mastropietro

A central question beyond the Landau paradigm is the non-perturbative critical theory of the symmetric mass generation (SMG) transition, where strong interactions gap Dirac fermions in (2+1) dimensions without triggering spontaneous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-20 Cheng-Hao He , Yi-Zhuang You , Xiao Yan Xu

Demanding a consistent quantum field theory description of spin 1/2 particles near a circular Fermi surface in 2d leads to a unique fermionic theory with relevant quartic interactions which has an emergent Lorentz symmetry and automatically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-29 Eliot Kapit , André LeClair

We formulate the effective Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory of the semimetal-insulator transitions on the honeycomb lattice and compute its quantum critical behavior near three (spatial) dimensions. We find that at the critical point Dirac…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-12-15 Igor F. Herbut , Vladimir Juricic , Oskar Vafek

Dirac semimetals (DSMs), characterized by linear dispersion relations in their electronic band structure, have gained prominence due to their unique topological features and potential applications in electronic devices. Through systematic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Shivendra Kumar Gupta , Nikhilesh Singh , Saurabh Kumar Sen , Poorva Singh

Models with range-free frustrated Ising spin- and Hubbard interaction are treated exactly by means of the discrete time slicing method. Critical and tricritical points, correlations, and the fermion propagator, are derived as a function of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Oppermann , D. Sherrington

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 continuous quantum phase transition between noninteracting, time-reversal symmetric topological and trivial insulators in three dimensions is described by the massless Dirac fermion. We address the stability of this quantum critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 Bitan Roy , Pallab Goswami , Jay D. Sau

When a metal undergoes a continuous quantum phase transition, non-Fermi liquid behaviour arises near the critical point. It is standard to assume that all low-energy degrees of freedom induced by quantum criticality are spatially extended,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Qimiao Si , Silvio Rabello , Kevin Ingersent , Lleweilun Smith

Employing the self-learning quantum Monte Carlo algorithm, we investigate the frustrated transverse-field triangle-lattice Ising model coupled to a Fermi surface. Without fermions, the spin degrees of freedom undergoes a second-order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-17 Zi Hong Liu , Xiao Yan Xu , Yang Qi , Kai Sun , Zi Yang Meng

Nonsymmorphic symmetries can give rise to Dirac semimetal (DSM) states. However, few studies have been conducted on DSMs in interacting systems. Here, we induce interacting DSM states in nonsymmorphic iridium oxides SrIrO$_3$, BaIrO$_3$ and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-18 Zhi-Ming Yang , Huan Li

The global center symmetry of quenched QCD at zero baryonic chemical potential is broken spontaneously at a critical temperature $T_c$ leading to a first-order phase transition. Including heavy dynamical quarks breaks the center symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-08-08 Reinhold Kaiser , Owe Philipsen

We consider a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain coupled via a Kondo interaction to two-dimensional Dirac fermions. The Kondo interaction is irrelevant at the \textit{decoupled} fixed-point, leading to the existence of a Kondo-breakdown phase and a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-18 Bimla Danu , Matthias Vojta , Fakher F. Assaad , Tarun Grover

Elucidating the phase diagram of lattice gauge theories with fermionic matter in 2+1 dimensions has become a problem of considerable interest in recent years, motivated by physical problems ranging from chiral symmetry breaking in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-15 Nikolai Zerf , Rufus Boyack , Peter Marquard , John A. Gracey , Joseph Maciejko

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