Critical transport in weakly disordered semiconductors and semimetals

Abstract

Motivated by Weyl semimetals and weakly doped semiconductors, we study transport in a weakly disordered semiconductor with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion ${\xi }_{\mathbf{k}}\propto k^{\alpha }$. We show, that in $2\alpha$ dimensions short-correlated disorder experiences logarithmic renormalisation from all energies in the band. We study the case of a general dimension $d$ using a renormalisation group, controlled by an $\epsilon =2\alpha -d$-expansion. Above the critical dimensions, conduction exhibits a localisation-delocalisation phase transition or a sharp crossover (depending on the symmetries of the Hamiltonian) as a function of disorder strength. We utilise this analysis to compute the low-temperature conductivity in Weyl semimetals and weakly doped semiconductors near and below the critical disorder point.

5 pages, 3 figures + 4 pages, 4 figures of Supplemental Material; as published

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