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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 102, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.081112
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- DFG through the Emmy Noether program [JA2306/4-1, 411750675, SFB 1143, 247310070, EXC 2147, 390858490]
- DFG through Wurzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat [EXC 2147, 390858490]
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We study a model for a quantum critical point in two spatial dimensions between a semimetallic phase, characterized by a stable quadratic Fermi node, and an ordered phase, in which the spectrum develops a band gap. The quantum critical behavior can be computed exactly, and we explicitly derive the scaling laws of various observables. While the order-parameter correlation function at criticality satisfies the usual power law with anomalous exponent eta(phi) = 2, the correlation length and the expectation value of the order parameter exhibit essential singularities upon approaching the quantum critical point from the insulating side, akin to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition. The susceptibility, on the other hand, has a power-law divergence with non-mean-field exponent gamma = 2. On the semimetallic side, the correlation length remains infinite, leading to an emergent scale invariance throughout this phase.
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