Holographic models for undoped Weyl semimetals

Sep, 2012
64 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 04 (2013) 127
e-Print:
Report number:
  • ITP-UU-12-27,
  • SPIN-12-25,
  • CERN-PH-TH-2012-240

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Abstract: (Springer)
We continue our recently proposed holographic description of single-particle correlation functions for four-dimensional chiral fermions with Lifshitz scaling at zero chemical potential, paying particular attention to the dynamical exponent z = 2. We present new results for the spectral densities and dispersion relations at non-zero momenta and temperature. In contrast to the relativistic case with z = 1, we find the existence of a quantum phase transition from a non-Fermi liquid into a Fermi liquid in which two Fermi surfaces spontaneously form, even at zero chemical potential. Our findings show that the boundary system behaves like an undoped Weyl semimetal.
Note:
  • 64 pages, 19 figures
  • Holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • holography
  • scaling: Lifshitz
  • density: spectral
  • fermion: chiral
  • correlation function
  • dispersion relation
  • critical phenomena
  • Fermi surface
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