Gross-Neveu-Yukawa models at four loops and quantum critical behavior of Dirac systems

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Abstract

Dirac and Weyl fermions appear as quasi-particle excitations in many different condensed-matter systems. They display various quantum transitions which represent unconventional universality classes related to the variants of the Gross-Neveu model. In my talk, I present a study of the bosonized version of the standard Gross-Neveu models -- the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theories -- at four-loop order, and compute critical exponents in 4−epsilon dimensions for general number of fermion flavors. Our results fully encompass the previously known two-loop calculations, and agree with the known four-loop results in the purely bosonic limit of the theory. We also find the exponents to satisfy the emergent super-scaling relations in the limit of a single-component fermion, order by order up to four loops. Finally, we apply the computed series for the exponents and their Pade approximants to several phase transitions of current interest: metal-insulator transitions of spin-1/2 and spinless fermions on the honeycomb lattice, emergent supersymmetric surface field theory in topological phases, as well as the disorder-induced quantum transition in Weyl semimetals. Comparison with the results of other analytical and numerical methods is discussed.

Presenters

  • Michael Scherer

    • University of Cologne

Authors

  • Michael Scherer

    • University of Cologne
  • Nikolai Zerf

    • Institut fur Physik, Univerisitat zu Berlin
  • Luminita Mihaila

    • Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Univerisitat zu Berlin
  • Peter Marquard

    • Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY)
  • Igor Herbut

    • Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
  • Bernhard Ihrig

    • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne