Renormalization group analysis of multi-Dirac-node materials

Abstract

We theoretically study the electromagnetic interaction in Dirac systems with $N$ nodes by using the renormalization group, which is relevant to the quantum critical phenomena of topological phase transition ($N=1$) and Weyl semimetals ($N=4$ or $N=12$). Compared with the previous work for $N=1$ [H. Isobe and N. Nagaosa, Phys. Rev. B 86, 165127 (2012); arXiv:1205.2427], we obtained the analytic solution for the large $N$ limit, which differs qualitatively for the scaling of the speed of light $c$ and that of electron $v$, i.e., $v$ does notchange while $c$ is reduced to $v$. We also found a reasonably accurate approximate analytic solution for generic $N$, which well interpolates between $N=1$ and large $N$ limit, and it concludes that $c^2{v}^N$ is almost unrenormalized. The temperature dependence of the physical properties, the dielectric constant, magnetic susceptibility, spectral function, DC conductivity, and mass gap are discussed based on these results.

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