Unifying Interacting Nodal Semimetals: A New Route to Strong Coupling.

Phys Rev Lett

Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany.

Published: November 2019

We propose a general framework for constructing a large set of nodal-point semimetals by tuning the number of linearly (d_{L}) and (at most) quadratically (d_{Q}) dispersing directions. By virtue of such a unifying scheme, we identify a new perturbative route to access various strongly interacting non-Dirac semimetals with d_{Q}>0. As a demonstrative example, we relate a two-dimensional anisotropic semimetal with d_{L}=d_{Q}=1, describing the topological transition between a Dirac semimetal and a normal insulator, and its three-dimensional counterparts with d_{L}=1, d_{Q}=2. We address the quantum critical phenomena and emergence of non-Fermi liquid states with unusual dynamical structures within the framework of an ε expansion, where ε=2-d_{Q}, when these systems reside at the brink of charge- or spin-density-wave orderings, or an s-wave pairing. Our results can be germane to two-dimensional uniaxially strained optical honeymcomb lattice, α-(BEDT-TTF)_{2}I_{3}.

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