Level statistics of disordered Weyl semimetalsν

ORAL

Abstract


The level statistics and the fractal nature of electron wavefunction around
Weyl nodes of disordered Weyl semimetals are numerically investigated.
The nearest-neighbor level spacing follows a new universal distribution
originally proposed for the level statistics of critical states in the integer
quantum Hall systems or normal dirty metals (diffusive metals) at metal-to-insulator
transitions, instead of the Wigner-Dyson distribution for diffusive metals.
The wavefunction at a Weyl node occupies a fractal space of dimension 2.18,
in contrast to the extended states that spread over the whole space (D=3).
The finite size scaling of the inverse participation ratio (IPR) suggests that the
correlation length of wavefunctions at Weyl nodes (E=0) diverges as ξ∼|E|
with ν=0.89. In the ergodic limit, the level number variance
around Weyl nodes increases linearly with the average level number N.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No.~11374249 and 11704061) and Hong Kong RGC (Grants No.~16301518 and
16300117). CW is supported by UESTC and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grants No.~2017M610595 and 2017T100684)

Presenters

  • Xiang Rong Wang

    • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Authors

  • Xiang Rong Wang

    • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Chen Wang

    • School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Peng Yan

    • University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
    • School of Electronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China