Disordered fermionic quantum critical points

Hennadii Yerzhakov, Joseph Maciejko

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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 languageEnglish
Article number195142
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume98
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Nov 2018
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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© 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.

FundersFunder number
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaRGPIN-2014-4608
Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures
University of Alberta

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