Disorder in tilted Weyl semimetals from a renormalization group perspective

Tycho S. Sikkenk, Lars Fritz

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Abstract

Isolated Weyl cones in a disordered environment do not show the phenomenon of Anderson localization due to the abscence of backscattering processes. However, besides the conventional three dimensional diffusive metal, an additional semimetallic phase can form. In this paper we study the effect of tilt on the physics of disorder in isolated Weyl cones. Our main finding is that while the semimetallic phase remains a stable phase, tilt decreases the size of the semimetallic region. Conversely, disorder increases the effective tilt of the quasiparticle excitations.
Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Article number155121
Number of pages9
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume96
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Oct 2017

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