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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

Electronic properties of materials are commonly described by quasiparticles that behave as non-relativistic electrons with a finite mass and obey the Schroedinger equation. Here we report a condensed matter system where electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim , S. V. Morozov , D. Jiang , M. I. Katsnelson , I. V. Grigorieva , S. V. Dubonos , A. A. Firsov

Symmetry protected Dirac semimetals can be transformed into Weyl semimetals by breaking the protecting symmetry, leading to many exotic quantum phenomena such as chiral anomaly and anomalous Hall effect. Here we show that, due to the large…

There are known two distinct types of the integer quantum Hall effect. One is the conventional quantum Hall effect, characteristic of two-dimensional semiconductor systems, and the other is its relativistic counterpart recently observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. S. Novoselov , E. McCann , S. V. Morozov , V. I. Falko , M. I. Katsnelson , U. Zeitler , D. Jiang , F. Schedin , A. K. Geim

The chiral anomaly is based on a non-conserved chiral charge and can happen in Dirac fermion systems under the influence of external electromagnetic fields. In this case, the spectral flow leads to a transfer of right- to left-moving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Christoph Fleckenstein , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Björn Trauzettel

The pursuit of understanding parity anomaly in condensed matter systems has led to significant advancements in both theoretical and experimental research in recent years. In this study, we explore the parity anomaly of massless Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

We report quasi-two-dimensional Dirac fermions and quantum magnetoresistance in LaAgBi$_2$. The band structure shows several narrow bands with nearly linear energy dispersion and Dirac-cone-like points at the Fermi level. The quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Kefeng Wang , D. Graf , C. Petrovic

We analytically study interacting Dirac fermions, described by the Thirring model, under weak local particle number measurements with monitoring rate $\gamma$. This system maps to a bosonic replica field theory, analyzed via the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-24 Thomas Martin Müller , Michael Buchhold , Sebastian Diehl

We numerically investigate the topological phase transition induced purely by disorder in a spring-mass chain. We employ two types of disorders - chiral and random types - to explore the interplay between topology and disorder. By tracking…

Zero-mass lines result in appearance of linear dispersion modes for Dirac fermions. These modes play an important role in various physical systems. However, a Dirac fermion may not precisely follow a single zero-mass line, due to either…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Timur Tudorovskiy , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We have investigated the Fock-Darwin states of the massless chiral fermions confined in a graphitic parabolic quantum dot. In the light of the Klein tunneling, we have analyzed the condition for confinement of the Dirac fermions in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hong-Yi Chen , Vadim Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Results will be presented from a study of the QCD transition region using 2+1 flavors of fermions and a dislocation suppressing gauge action on a lattice with temporal extent of 8 and spatial extent 16 (1.9 - 2.7 fm). A series of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-03 Zhongjie Lin

In this paper, we studied the nonmagnetic disorder effects onto the quantum critical point (QCP) which intervenes an ordinary insulator and the 3-dimensional $Z_2$ quantum spin Hall insulator. The minimal model describing this QCP is the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryuichi Shindou , Shuichi Murakami

It is by now well established that Dirac fermions coupled to non-Abelian gauge theories can undergo an Anderson-type localization transition. This transition affects eigenmodes in the lowest part of the Dirac spectrum, the ones most…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-06-17 Matteo Giordano , Tamas G. Kovacs

We discuss the effects of disorder in time-reversal invariant topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions. For three-dimensional topological insulator in symplectic (AII) symmetry class, the phase diagram in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shinsei Ryu , Kentaro Nomura

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 double Weyl semimetal (DWSM) is a newly proposed topological material that hosts Weyl points with chiral charge n=2. The disorder effect in DWSM is investigated by adopting the tight-binding Hamiltonian. Using the transfer matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jiayan Zhang , Fei Wan , Xinru Wang , Ying Ding , Liehong Liao , Zhihui Chen , M. N. Chen , Yuan Li

We consider Dirac fermions interacting with a disordered non-Abelian vector potential. The exact solution is obtained through a special type of conformal field theory including logarithmic correlators, without resorting to the replica or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. -S. Caux , N. Taniguchi , A. M. Tsvelik

This work treats the effects of disorder and interactions in a quantum Hall ferromagnet, which is realized in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field at Landau level filling factor equal one. We study the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-29 D. Makogon , A. Alamir , C. Morais Smith

Using determinant quantum Monte Carlo (d-QMC) simulations, we demonstrate that an extended Hubbard model on a bilayer honeycomb lattice has two novel quantum phase transitions. The first is a quantum phase transition between the weakly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-18 Kevin Slagle , Yi-Zhuang You , Cenke Xu