Accurate Determination of the Quasiparticle and Scaling Properties Surrounding the Quantum Critical Point of Disordered Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetals

Bo Fu, Wei Zhu, Qinwei Shi, Qunxiang Li, Jinlong Yang, and Zhenyu Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146401 – Published 3 April 2017
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Abstract

Exploiting the enabling power of the Lanczos method in momentum space, we determine accurately the quasiparticle and scaling properties of disordered three-dimensional Dirac semimetals surrounding the quantum critical point separating the semimetal and diffusive metal regimes. We unveil that the imaginary part of the quasiparticle self-energy obeys a common power law before, at, and after the quantum phase transition, but the power law is nonuniversal, whose exponent is dependent on the disorder strength. More intriguingly, whereas a common power law is also found for the real part of the self-energy before and after the phase transition, a distinctly different behavior is identified at the critical point, characterized by the existence of a nonanalytic logarithmic singularity. This nonanalytical correction serves as the very basis for the unusual power-law behaviors of the quasiparticles and many other physical properties surrounding the quantum critical point. Our approach also allows the ready and reliable determination of the scaling properties of the correlation length and dynamical exponents. We further show that the central findings are valid for both uncorrelated and correlated disorder distributions and should be directly comparable with future experimental observations.

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  • Received 27 October 2016

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.146401

© 2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Bo Fu1, Wei Zhu2,3, Qinwei Shi1,*, Qunxiang Li1,†, Jinlong Yang1, and Zhenyu Zhang1,‡

  • 1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
  • 2Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA
  • 3Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA

  • *phsqw@ustc.edu.cn
  • liqun@ustc.edu.cn
  • zhangzy@ustc.edu.cn

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Vol. 118, Iss. 14 — 7 April 2017

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