Thursday, September 13, 2012

1209.2593 (Umut Gursoy et al.)

Lifshitz holography for undoped Weyl semimetals    [PDF]

Umut Gursoy, Vivian Jacobs, Erik Plauschinn, Henk Stoof, Stefan Vandoren
We continue our recently proposed holographic description of single-particle correlation functions for four-dimensional chiral fermions with Lifshitz scaling at zero chemical potential, paying particular attention to the dynamical exponent z=2. We present new results for the spectral densities and dispersion relations at non-zero momenta and temperature. In contrast to the relativistic case with z=1, we find the existence of a quantum phase transition from a non-Fermi liquid into a Fermi liquid in which two Fermi surfaces spontaneously form, even at zero chemical potential. Our findings show that the boundary system behaves much like an undoped Weyl semimetal.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2593

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