Transport in the non-Fermi liquid phase of isotropic Luttinger semimetals
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2021
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Luttinger semimetals have quadratic band crossings at the Brillouin-zone center in three spatial dimensions.
Coulomb interactions in a model that describes these systems stabilize a nontrivial fixed point associated with
a non-Fermi liquid state, also known as the Luttinger-Abrikosov-Beneslavskii phase. We calculate the optical
conductivity σ (ω) and the dc conductivity σdc (T ) of this phase, by means of the Kubo formula and the MoriZwanzig memory matrix method, respectively. Interestingly, we find that σ (ω), as a function of the frequency ω
of an applied ac electric field, is characterized by a small violation of the hyperscaling property in the clean limit,
which is in contrast with the low-energy effective theories that possess Dirac quasiparticles in the excitation
spectrum and obey hyperscaling. Furthermore, the effects of weak short-ranged disorder on the temperature
dependence of σdc (T ) give rise to a stronger power-law suppression at low temperatures compared to the clean
limit. Our findings demonstrate that these disordered systems are actually power-law insulators. Our theoretical
results agree qualitatively with the data from recent experiments performed on Luttinger semimetal compounds
like the pyrochlore iridates [(Y1−xPrx )2Ir2O7].
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MANDAL, Ipsita; FREIRE, Hermann. Transport in the non-Fermi liquid phase of isotropic Luttinger semimetals. Physical Review B, College Park, v. 103, n. 19, p. 195116, 2021. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.195116. Disponível em: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.195116. Acesso em: 18 set. 2023.