Multifractality at the Weyl semimetal-diffusive metal transition for generic disorder

Abstract

A Weyl semimetal is a three dimensional topological gapless phase. In the presence of strong enough disorder it undergoes a quantum transition towards a diffusive metal phase whose universality class depends on the range of disorder correlations. Similar to other quantum transitions driven by disorder, the critical wave functions at the semimetal-diffusive metal transition exhibit multifractality. Using renormalization group methods we study the corresponding multifractal spectrum as a function of the range of disorder correlations for generic disorder including random scalar and vector potentials. We also discuss the relation between the geometric fluctuations of critical wave functions and the broad distribution of the local density of states (DOS) at the transition. We derive a new scaling relation for the typical local DOS and argue that it holds for other disorder-driven transitions in which both the average and typical local DOS vanish on one side of the transition. As an illustration we apply it to the recently discussed unconventional quantum transition in disordered semiconductors with power-law dispersion relation near the band edge.

arXiv comment11 pages, 4 figures

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