Weyl semimetals with short-range interactions

Abstract

We construct a low-energy effective field theory of electrons interacting via short-range interactions in a Weyl semimetal and investigate possible broken-symmetry ground states through an unbiased one-loop renormalization group (RG) analysis. Using the symmetries of the noninteracting Weyl semimetal to constrain the form of the interaction term leads to four independent coupling constants. We investigate the stability of RG flows towards strong coupling and find a single stable trajectory. In order to determine the most likely broken-symmetry ground state, we calculate susceptibilities in the particle-hole and particle-particle channels along this trajectory and find that the leading instability is towards a fully gapped spin-density wave (SDW) ground state. The sliding mode of this SDW couples to the external electromagnetic fields like the Peccei-Quinn axion field of particle physics. We also study a maximally symmetric toy model of an interacting Weyl semimetal with a single independent coupling constant. The most likely ground states in this case are either gapless ferromagnetic states where the spin waves couple to the Weyl fermions like the spatial components of a (possibly chiral) gauge field, or a fully gapped spin-singlet Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) superconducting state.

22 pages, 2 figures. Version published in Phys. Rev. B

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