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We study the critical properties of the QED$_3$-Gross-Neveu model with $2N$ flavors of two-component Dirac fermions coupled to a massless scalar field and a U(1) gauge field. For $N=1$, this theory has recently been suggested to be dual to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-10 Lukas Janssen , Yin-Chen He

Motivated by the physics of spin-orbital liquids, we study a model of interacting Dirac fermions on a bilayer honeycomb lattice at half filling, featuring an explicit global SO(3)$\times$U(1) symmetry. Using large-scale auxiliary-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-25 Zi Hong Liu , Matthias Vojta , Fakher F. Assaad , Lukas Janssen

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

We study the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa field theory for the SO($N$) symmetric traceless rank-two tensor order parameter coupled to Majorana fermions using the $\epsilon$-expansion around upper critical dimensions of $3+1$ to two loops. Previously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-11 SangEun Han , Igor F. Herbut

Emergent symmetry in Dirac system means that the system acquires an enlargement of two basic symmetries at some special critical point. The continuous quantum criticality between the two symmetry broken phases can be described within the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-06-29 Jiang Zhou

Gapless Dirac fermions appear as quasiparticle excitations in various condensed-matter systems. They feature quantum critical points with critical behavior in the 2+1 dimensional Gross-Neveu universality class. The precise determination of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 Bernhard Ihrig , Luminita N. Mihaila , Michael M. Scherer

It was recently established that the paradigmatic Gross--Neveu model with $N$ copies of two-dimensional Dirac fermions features an $\mathrm{SO}(2N)$ symmetry if certain interactions are suppressed. This becomes evident when the theory is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Bilal Hawashin , Max Uetrecht

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

I point out that Gross-Neveu theory with SO(3) isospin in three spacetime dimensions -- proposed recently, for instance, as an effective description of the N\'eel transition in certain spin-orbital liquids -- also hosts quantum criticality…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-28 Shouryya Ray

Electrons on honeycomb or pi-flux lattices obey effective massless Dirac equation at low energies and at the neutrality point, and should suffer quantum phase transitions into various Mott insulators and superconductors at strong two-body…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-02 Igor F. Herbut , Subrata Mandal

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

We consider spontaneous symmetry breaking transitions of strongly interacting two-dimensional Dirac fermions minimally coupled to mass and emergent gauge field order parameters. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-20 Elliot Christou , Fernado de Juan , Frank Krüger

We consider a model of Dirac fermions in $2+1$ dimensions with dynamically generated, anticommuting SO(3) N\'eel and Z$_2$ Kekul\'e mass terms that permits sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The phase diagram is obtained from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-15 Toshihiro Sato , Martin Hohenadler , Fakher F. Assaad

Dirac and Weyl fermions appear as quasi-particle excitations in many different condensed-matter systems. They display various quantum transitions which represent unconventional universality classes related to the variants of the Gross-Neveu…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-25 Luminita N. Mihaila , Nikolai Zerf , Bernhard Ihrig , Igor F. Herbut , Michael M. Scherer

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

Inspired by our recent works[1, 2] of SU(2) and SU(4) Dirac fermions subjected to plaquette interactions on square lattice, here we extend the large-scale quantum Monte Carlo investigations to the phase digram of correlated Dirac fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-03 Yuan Da Liao , Xiao Yan Xu , Zi Yang Meng , Yang Qi

We discuss a novel manifestation of the $SU(2)$ global anomaly in an $SU(2)$ gauge theory with an odd number of chiral quark doublets and arbitrary Yukawa couplings. We argue that the massive 4-dim.($D=4$) Euclidean Dirac operator is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Minos Axenides , A. Johansen , H. B. Nielsen

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 consider the role of spontaneous lattice symmetry breaking in strongly interacting two dimensional Dirac systems. The fermion induced quantum (multi-)criticality is described by Dirac fermions coupled to a dynamical order parameter that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Elliot Christou , Fernado de Juan , Frank Krüger

An important yet largely unsolved problem in the statistical mechanics of disordered quantum systems is to understand how quenched disorder affects quantum phase transitions in systems of itinerant fermions. In the clean limit, continuous…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-19 Hennadii Yerzhakov , Joseph Maciejko