Levy flights and non-local transport in Dirac and Weyl systems
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Abstract
We show that hydrodynamic collision processes of Dirac and Weyl systems can be described in terms of a Fokker-Planck equation with fractional derivative, corresponding to a Lévy flight in momentum space. Thus, electron-electron collisions give rise to frequent small-angle scattering processes that are interrupted by rare large-angle events. The latter give rise to superdiffusive dynamics of collective excitations. We argue that such superdiffusive dynamics is of more general importance to the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum-critical systems.
*We acknowledge support by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 RISE program Hydrotronics (Grant Agreement 873028.
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Presenters
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Joerg Schmalian
- Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology