{
  "id": "1609.08368",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-09-27T12:03:38.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-09-27T12:03:38.000Z",
  "title": "New Quantum Transition in Weyl Semimetals with Correlated Disorder",
  "authors": [
    "Thibaud Louvet",
    "David Carpentier",
    "Andrei A. Fedorenko"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 4 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.dis-nn"
  ],
  "abstract": "A Weyl semimetal denotes an electronic phase of solids in which two bands cross linearly. In this paper we study the effect of a spatially correlated disorder on such a phase. Using a renormalization group analysis, we show that in three dimensions, three scenarios are possible depending on the disorder correlations. A standard transition is recovered for short range correlations. For disorder decaying slower than $1/r^{2}$, the Weyl semimetal is unstable to any weak disorder and no transition persists. In between, a new phase transition occurs. This transition still separates a disordered metal from a semi-metal, but with a new critical behavior that we analyze to two-loop order.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-09-27T12:03:38.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "correlated disorder",
      "quantum transition",
      "phase transition occurs",
      "short range correlations",
      "renormalization group analysis"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}