Abstract
We study the effect of quenched disorder on the semimetal-superconductor quantum phase transition in a model of two-dimensional Dirac semimetal with N flavors of two-component Dirac fermions, using perturbative renormalization group methods at one-loop order in a double epsilon expansion. For N≥2 we find that the Harris-stable clean critical behavior gives way, past a certain critical disorder strength, to a finite-disorder critical point characterized by non-Gaussian critical exponents, a noninteger dynamic critical exponent z>1, and a finite Yukawa coupling between Dirac fermions and bosonic order parameter fluctuations. For N≥7 the disordered quantum critical point is described by a renormalization group fixed point of stable-focus type and exhibits oscillatory corrections to scaling.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 195142 |
Journal | Physical Review B |
Volume | 98 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 30 Nov 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 American Physical Society.
Funding
We thank I. Affleck, F. Marsiglio, R. Nandkishore, A. Penin, A. Thomson, and A. Vishwanath for helpful correspondence. H.Y. was supported by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF). J.M. was supported by NSERC Grant No. RGPIN-2014-4608, the CRC Program, CIFAR, and the University of Alberta.
Funders | Funder number |
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Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | |
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | RGPIN-2014-4608 |
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures | |
University of Alberta |