{
  "id": "1402.6992",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2014-02-27T17:52:21.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-09-12T16:26:30.000Z",
  "title": "Marginal Fermi liquid versus excitonic instability in 3D Dirac semimetals",
  "authors": [
    "J. Gonzalez"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages + expanded appendix, added phase diagram",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.str-el"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the different phases in the Quantum Electrodynamics of 3D Dirac semimetals depending on the number $N$ of Dirac fermions, using renormalization group methods and the self-consistent resolution of the Schwinger-Dyson equation. We find that, for $N < 4$, a phase with dynamical generation of mass prevails at sufficiently strong coupling, sharing the same physics of the excitonic instability in 2D Dirac semimetals. For $N \\geq 4$, we show that the phase diagram has instead a line of critical points characterized by the suppression of the quasiparticle weight at low energies, making the system to fall into the class of marginal Fermi liquids. Such a boundary marks the transition to a kind of strange metal which can be still defined in terms of electron quasiparticles, but with parameters that have large imaginary parts implying an increasing deviation from the conventional Fermi liquid picture.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2014-04-16T14:32:15.000Z",
      "title": "Critical point from scaling of electron charge in 3D Dirac semimetals",
      "abstract": "We study the effects of the scaling of the electron charge in the Quantum Electrodynamics of 3D Dirac semimetals, which arise as electron-hole excitations become less efficient to screen the bare charge at short-distance scales. We show that these 3D electron systems have a critical point in the regime where the bare coupling gets large at the high-energy cutoff. The critical behavior is characterized by the suppression of the quasiparticle weight at low energies, making the system to fall into the class of marginal Fermi liquids. We also investigate the phase beyond the critical point, finding that it can be formally characterized in terms of electron quasiparticles, but with parameters that have large imaginary parts implying an increasing deviation from the Fermi liquid picture.",
      "comment": "4.5 pages + expanded appendix",
      "journal": null,
      "doi": null
    },
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2014-09-12T16:26:30.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "71.15.Rf",
      "12.20.Ds",
      "71.10.Hf",
      "71.30.+h"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "3d dirac semimetals",
      "critical point",
      "electron charge",
      "marginal fermi liquids",
      "3d electron systems"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.90.121107",
      "journal": "Physical Review B",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 90,
      "number": 12,
      "pages": 121107
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 1283387,
      "adsabs": "2014PhRvB..90l1107G"
    }
  }
}