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Recently, in an attempt to study disordered criticality in Quantum Hall systems and $d$-wave superconductivity, it was found that two dimensional random Dirac fermion systems contain a line of critical points which is connected to the pure…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Claudio de C. Chamon , Christopher Mudry , Xiao-Gang Wen

Relativistic massless Weyl and Dirac fermions exhibit the isotropic and linear dispersion relations to preserve the Poincar\'{e} symmetry, the most fundamental symmetry in high energy physics. In solids, the counterparts of the Poincar\'{e}…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-12 Weikang Wu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Xiaoting Zhou , Y. X. Zhao , Shengyuan A. Yang

We investigate the interplay between charge order and superconductivity near an antiferromagnetic quantum critical point using sign-problem-free Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. We establish that, when the electronic dispersion is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-20 Xiaoyu Wang , Yuxuan Wang , Yoni Schattner , Erez Berg , Rafael M. Fernandes

We resolve the nature of the quantum phase transition between a N\'eel antiferromagnet and a valence-bond solid in two-dimensional spin-1/2 magnets. We study a class of $J$-$Q$ models, in which Heisenberg exchange $J$ competes with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-13 Jun Takahashi , Hui Shao , Bowen Zhao , Wenan Guo , Anders W. Sandvik

We investigate a model of interacting Dirac fermions in $2+1$ dimensions with $M$ flavors and $N$ colors having the $\mathrm{U}(M)\times \mathrm{SU}(N)$ symmetry. In the large-$N$ limit, we find that the $\mathrm{U}(M)$ symmetry is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-08 Takuya Kanazawa , Mario Kieburg , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

We investigate the development of a gapped phase in the field theory of Dirac fermions in graphene with long-range Coulomb interaction. In the large-N approximation, we show that the chiral symmetry is only broken below a critical number of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 J. Gonzalez

In quantum field theory, we learn that fermions come in three varieties: Majorana, Weyl, and Dirac. Here we show that in solid state systems this classification is incomplete and find several additional types of crystal symmetry-protected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 Barry Bradlyn , Jennifer Cano , Zhijun Wang , M. G. Vergniory , C. Felser , R. J. Cava , B. Andrei Bernevig

The notorious fermion sign problem, arising from fermion statistics, presents a fundamental obstacle to the numerical simulation of quantum many-body systems. Here, we introduce a framework that circumvents the sign problem in the studies…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-07 Yin-Kai Yu , Zhi-Xuan Li , Shuai Yin , Zi-Xiang Li

In electronic band structure of solid state material, two band touching points with linear dispersion appear in pair in the momentum space. When they annihilate with each other, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-01-24 Xunlong Luo , Baolong Xu , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

Deconfined quantum criticality with emergent SO(5) symmetry in correlated systems remains elusive. Here, by performing numerically-exact state-of-the-art quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations, we show convincing evidences of deconfined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-26 Zi-Xiang Li , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao

The tetragonal heavy-fermion metal YbRh$_2$Si$_2$ orders antiferromagnetically at $T_{\rm N} = 70$ mK and exhibits an unconventional quantum critical point (QCP) of Kondo-destroying type at $B_{\rm N} = 60$ mT, for the magnetic field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-28 Erwin Schuberth , S. Wirth , F. Steglich

We use nematic Multi-particle Collision Dynamics (N-MPCD) simulations to study confined nematic liquid crystals in square domains, with three distinct mean-field potentials: the classical Maier-Saupe and Marrucci-Greco models, and a more…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Humberto Híjar , Apala Majumdar

We use a Landau theory and the epsilon expansion to study the superfluid phase transition of two-color QCD at nonzero temperature, T, and baryonic chemical potential, mu. At low T, and for N_f flavors of massless quarks, the global SU(N_f)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Wirstam , J. T. Lenaghan , K. Splittorff

A Dirac fermion emerges as a result of interplay between symmetry and topology in condensed matter. Current research moves towards investigating the Dirac fermions in the presence of manybody effects in correlated system. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-15 J. W. Han , Sun-Woo Kim , W. S. Kyung , C. Kim , G. Cao , X. Chen , S. D. Wilson , Sangmo Cheon , J. S. Lee

We formulate the three dimensional Thirring model on a spacetime lattice and study it for various even numbers of fermion flavors N_f by Monte Carlo simulation. We find clear evidence for spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking at strong…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Del Debbio , S. J. Hands , J. C. Mehegan

We develop an effective quantum electrodynamics for non-Hermitian (NH) Dirac materials interacting with photons. These systems are described by nonspatial symmetry protected Lorentz invariant NH Dirac operators, featuring two velocity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-26 Sk Asrap Murshed , Bitan Roy

The quantum phase transition in iron-based superconductors with 'half-Dirac' node at the electron Fermi surface as a $T=0$ structural phase transition described in terms of nematic order is discussed. An effective low energy theory that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-21 Imam Makhfudz

Filling-enforced Dirac semimetals, or those required at specific fillings by the combination of crystalline and time-reversal symmetries, have been proposed and discovered in numerous materials. However, Dirac points in these materials are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Steve M Young , Benjamin J. Wieder

We investigate the stability of Quantum Critical Points (QCPs) in the presence of two competing phases. These phases near QCPs are assumed to be either classical or quantum and assumed to repulsively interact via square-square interactions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-19 Jian-Huang She , Jan Zaanen , Alan R. Bishop , Alexander V. Balatsky

Interacting theories of N relativistic fermion flavors in reducible spinor representations in 2+1 spacetime dimensions are formulated on a lattice using domain wall fermions (DWF), for which a U(2N) global symmetry is recovered in the limit…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-23 Simon Hands