Magnetic Susceptibility of Dirac Fermions, Bi-Sb Alloys, Interacting Bloch Fermions, Dilute Nonmagnetic Alloys, and Kondo Alloys

Abstract

Wide ranging interest in Dirac Hamiltomian is due to the emergence of novel materials, namely, graphene, topological insulators and superconductors, the newly-discovered Weyl semimetals, and still actively-sought after Majorana fermions in real materials. We give a brief review of the relativistic Dirac quantum mechanics and its impact in the developments of modern physics. The quantum band dynamics of Dirac Hamiltonian is crucial in resolving the giant diamagnetism of bismuth and Bi-Sb alloys. Quantitative agreement of the theory with the experiments on Bi-Sb alloys has been achieved, and physically meaningful contributions to the diamagnetism has been identified. We also treat relativistic Dirac fermion as an interband dynamics in uniform magnetic fields. For the interacting Bloch electrons, the role of translation symmetry for calculating the magnetic susceptibility avoids any approximation to second order in the field. The magnetic susceptibility of Hubbard model and those of Fermi liquids are readily obtained as limiting cases. The expressions for magnetic susceptibility of dilute nonmagnetic alloys give a firm theoretical foundation of the empirical formulas used in fitting experimental results. For completeness, the magnetic susceptibility of dilute magnetic or Kondo alloys is also given for high and low temperature regimes.

arXiv commentKeywords: Dirac, Weyl, Majorana, Proca particles. BdG equation, topological superconductors. Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation, Magnetic susceptibility, interacting Bloch fermions, dilute alloys. Magnetic basis functions, Lattice Weyl transformation

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