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Quantitative analytical theory for disordered nodal points [Article and Erratum]

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2018-04-24 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Disorder effects are especially pronounced around nodal points in linearly dispersing bandstructures as present in graphene or Weyl semimetals. Despite the enormous experimental and numerical progress, even a simple quantity like the average density of states cannot be assessed quantitatively by analytical means. We demonstrate how this important problem can be solved employing the functional renormalization group method and, for the two dimensional case, demonstrate excellent agreement with reference data from numerical simulations based on tight-binding models. In three dimensions our analytic results also improve drastically on existing approaches.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08457,
  title  = {Quantitative analytical theory for disordered nodal points [Article and Erratum]},
  author = {Björn Sbierski and Kevin A. Madsen and Piet W. Brouwer and Christoph Karrasch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08457},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Erratum prepended (1 + 4 + 3 pages)

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