QED${}_3$ with quenched disorder: quantum critical states with interactions and disorder

Abstract

Quantum electrodynamics in 2+1-dimensions (QED${}_3$) is a strongly coupled conformal field theory (CFT) of a U(1) gauge field coupled to $2N$ two-component massless fermions. The $N=2$ CFT has been proposed as a ground state of the spin-1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. We study QED${}_3$ in the presence of weak quenched disorder in its two spatial directions. When the disorder explicitly breaks the fermion flavor symmetry from SU($2N$)$\to$U(1)$\times$SU($N$) but preserves time-reversal symmetry, we find that the theory flows to a non-trivial fixed line at non-zero disorder with a continuously varying dynamical critical exponent $z>1$. We determine the zero-temperature flavor (spin) conductivity along the critical line. Our calculations are performed in the large-$N$ limit, and the disorder is handled using the replica method.

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