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无序半狄拉克费米子的对称性和输运性质

Symmetry and transport properties of disordered semi-Dirac fermions

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  • 在真实的材料体系, 杂质和缺陷等无序不可避免地对准粒子产生复杂的散射过程, 这使得量子输运计算面临困难. 自洽玻恩近似将无序对电子的散射自洽地计入自能和顶角修正, 已成为处理杂质散射下电子输运的量子场论方法. 然而以往基于自洽玻恩近似的输运研究大多建立在各向同性假设基础上, 对各向异性体系缺乏系统而明确的对称性分析方法. 本文发展了一套基于离散内禀对称性和动量联合赝自旋空间反射对称性的自洽玻恩近似输运理论框架, 将复杂的输运计算约化为少数几个标量代数方程, 从本质上简化了自洽矩阵方程的求解, 也加深了对赝自旋空间和各向异性体系量子输运的理解. 基于此理论框架, 本文系统研究了无序散射下半狄拉克体系的能谱重整化和新奇量子输运性质. 自洽计算结果表明: 1) 自能的实部和虚部都保持了能谱的粒子空穴对称性特征, 无序的增强会导致系统从Lifshitz相变临界点的半狄拉克金属相转变到双节点半金属相; 2) 在线性色散方向, 零能附近的纵向电导率具有一个接近 4e^2/\pi h的最小值, 且无序的增强没有使其消失, 这反映了狄拉克费米子的克莱因隧穿量子本质, 然而在抛物线色散方向零能附近的纵向电导率始终是零; 3) 在偏离零能的能量范围, 纵向电导率呈现出显著的各向异性, 体系的霍尔电导率随能量的变化呈现出奇函数特性, 相对于费米海的贡献, 费米面对霍尔电导起主导作用, 无序的增强对纵向和霍尔电导率都起到明显的抑制作用.

     

    Disorders such as impurities or defects inevitably induce complex scatterings in realistic material systems. As a result, we need transport theories dealing with these disorder scatterings to compute electronic transports. The self-consistent Born approximation (SCBA) is an effective field-theoretical approach for weak disorders by incorporating scatterings into both self-energy and vertex corrections self-consistently. However, previous SCBA theory relies on isotropic assumptions and lacks a systematic symmetry analysis for anisotropic systems. He we develop a symmetry-constrained SCBA (SCSCBA) framework for disordered semi-Dirac fermion systems by combining joint space symmetries consisting of both momentum and pseudospin space with intrinsic discrete symmetries including particle-hole symmetry (PHS), time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chiral symmetry(CS). Through symmetry constraints we reduce self-energy, single current-vertex and double current-vertex tensors into a few scalar algebraic equations, thereby greatly simplifying self-consistent calculations on transport properties. Applying SCSCBA, we systematically investigate the self-energy, band renormalization, vertex corrections, longitudinal conductivity, and Hall conductivity of disordered semi-Dirac fermion systems. We find that, (i) both the real and imaginary parts of the self-energy preserve the PHS, and the increased disorder strength drives the initial semi-Dirac metallic phase into two-node semimetals through the Lifshitz transition; (ii) For longitudinal conductivity, along the linear-dispersion direction there exists a robust minimum close to 4e^2/\pi h near zero energy reflecting the underlying Klein-tunneling nature of Dirac fermions, whereas the conductivity along the quadratic-dispersion direction vanishes at zero energy, manifesting a remarkable anisotropy; (iii) The weak-field Hall conductivity exhibts an odd function feature with energy, and the Fermi-surface contribution plays the dominant role in the Hall response, compared with the Fermi-sea contribution; (iv) Away from zero energy, both longitudinal and Hall conductivities are significantly suppressed by disorders. The suggested SCSCBA perspective can also be extended into other anisotropic systems.

     

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