Gross-Neveu-Yukawa model at three loops and Ising critical behavior of Dirac systems

Luminita N. Mihaila, Nikolai Zerf, Bernhard Ihrig, Igor F. Herbut, and Michael M. Scherer
Phys. Rev. B 96, 165133 – Published 17 October 2017

Abstract

Dirac and Weyl fermions appear as quasiparticle 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 this paper we study the bosonized version of the standard Gross-Neveu model—the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa theory—at three-loop order, and compute critical exponents in 4ε dimensions for a general number of fermion flavors. Our results fully encompass the previously known two-loop calculations, and agree with the known three-loop results in the purely bosonic limit of the theory. We also find the exponents to satisfy the emergent superscaling relations in the limit of a single-component fermion, order by order up to three loops. Finally, we apply the computed series for the exponents and their Padé 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.

  • Received 31 March 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.165133

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied PhysicsParticles & Fields

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Luminita N. Mihaila1, Nikolai Zerf1, Bernhard Ihrig1, Igor F. Herbut2, and Michael M. Scherer1

  • 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6

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Vol. 96, Iss. 16 — 15 October 2017

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