Rare regions and avoided quantum criticality in disordered Weyl semimetals and superconductors

JH Pixley, JH Wilson - Annals of Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Disorder in Weyl semimetals and superconductors is surprisingly subtle, attracting attention
and competing theories in recent years. In this brief review, we discuss the current …

High-dimensional disorder-driven phenomena in Weyl semimetals, semiconductors, and related systems

SV Syzranov, L Radzihovsky - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
It is commonly believed that a noninteracting disordered electronic system can undergo only
the Anderson metal-insulator transition. It has been suggested, however, that a broad class …

Global phase diagram of a dirty Weyl liquid and emergent superuniversality

B Roy, RJ Slager, V Juričić - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Pursuing complementary field-theoretic and numerical methods, we here paint the global
phase diagram of a three-dimensional dirty Weyl system. The generalized Harris criterion …

Weyl semimetal to metal phase transitions driven by quasiperiodic potentials

JH Pixley, JH Wilson, DA Huse, S Gopalakrishnan - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We explore the stability of three-dimensional Weyl and Dirac semimetals subject to
quasiperiodic potentials. We present numerical evidence that the semimetal is stable for …

Vanishing density of states in weakly disordered Weyl semimetals

M Buchhold, S Diehl, A Altland - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
The Brillouin zone of the clean Weyl semimetal contains points at which the density of states
(DOS) vanishes. Previous work suggested that below a certain critical concentration of …

Magic-angle semimetals with chiral symmetry

YZ Chou, Y Fu, JH Wilson, EJ König, JH Pixley - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We construct and solve a two-dimensional, chirally symmetric model of Dirac cones
subjected to a quasiperiodic modulation. In real space, this is realized with a quasiperiodic …

Do the surface Fermi arcs in Weyl semimetals survive disorder?

JH Wilson, JH Pixley, DA Huse, G Refael, S Das Sarma - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We theoretically study the topological robustness of the surface physics induced by Weyl
Fermi-arc surface states in the presence of short-ranged quenched disorder and surface …

Connecting the avoided quantum critical point to the magic-angle transition in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals

JH Pixley, DA Huse, JH Wilson - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We theoretically study the interplay of short-range random and quasiperiodic static
potentials on the low-energy properties of three-dimensional Weyl semimetals. This setting …

From weak to strong disorder in Weyl semimetals: Self-consistent Born approximation

J Klier, IV Gornyi, AD Mirlin - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We analyze theoretically the conductivity of Weyl semimetals within the self-consistent Born
approximation (SCBA) in the full range of disorder strength, from weak to strong disorder. In …

Direct topological insulator transitions in three dimensions are destabilized by nonperturbative effects of disorder

Y Fu, JH Wilson, DA Huse, JH Pixley - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We reconsider the phase diagram of a three-dimensional Z 2 topological insulator in the
presence of short-ranged potential disorder, with the insight that nonperturbative rare states …