Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 101, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.235118
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Funding
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Emmy Noether Program [JA2306/4-1, 411750675]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 1143, 247310070]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through Wurzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat [EXC 2147, 390858490]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China through the National Key Research and Development Program [2016YFA0300502]
- National Science Foundation of China [11574359, 11674370]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China [17303019]
- DFG [SFB 1238, 277146847]
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The coupling between fermionic matter and gauge fields plays a fundamental role in our understanding of nature, while at the same time posing a challenging problem for theoretical modeling. In this situation, controlled information can be gained by combining different complementary approaches. Here, we study a confinement transition in a system of N-f flavors of interacting Dirac fermions charged under a U(1) gauge field in 2 + 1 dimensions. Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate a lattice model that exhibits a continuous transition at zero temperature between a gapless deconfined phase, described by three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics, and a gapped confined phase, in which the system develops valence-bond-solid order. We argue that the quantum critical point is in the universality class of the QED(3)-Gross-Neveu-XY model. We study this field theory within a 1/N-f expansion in fixed dimension as well as a renormalization group analysis in 4 - epsilon space-time dimensions. The consistency between numerical and analytical results is revealed from large to intermediate flavor number.
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