Interplay of disorder and interactions in a system of subcritically tilted and anisotropic three-dimensional Weyl fermions

Tycho S. Sikkenk, Lars Fritz

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Abstract

We study the effects of disorder and Coulomb interactions on the physics of three-dimensional type-I Weyl fermions with tilted and anisotropic dispersions in a renormalization-group approach. To lowest nontrivial loop order, we show that the tendency of the Coulomb interactions to restore the symmetry of the dispersion in the semimetallic region of the phase diagram dominates the stabilization of the tilt and anisotropy favored by weak disorder. We argue that the topology of the renormalization flow of the disorder and Coulomb couplings is essentially determined by gauge invariance so that these findings continue to hold qualitatively at any order in perturbation theory.

Original languageEnglish
Article number085121
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume100
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Aug 2019

Funding

T.S.S. thanks S. Kooi and E. van der Wurff for insightful discussions. L.F. acknowledges former collaborations on this subject with F. Detassis and S. Grubinskas, who were also involved at an early stage of the project. T.S.S. acknowledges funding from the Swaantje Mondt Fund for a research visit during the writing of this paper. This work is part of the D-ITP Consortium, a program of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) that is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). APPENDIX A:

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