Fermion-sign-free Majarana-quantum-Monte-Carlo studies of quantum critical phenomena of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

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Abstract

Quantum critical phenomena may be qualitatively different when massless Dirac fermions are present at criticality. Using our recently-discovered fermion-sign-free Majorana quantum Monte Carlo (MQMC) method, we investigate the quantum critical phenomena of {\it spinless} Dirac fermions on the honeycomb lattice having $N_s=2L^2$ sites with largest $L=24$, at their charge-density-wave (CDW) phase transitions. By finite-size scaling, we accurately obtain critical exponents of this so-called Gross-Neveu chiral-Ising universality class of two (two-component) Dirac fermions in 2+1D: $\eta=0.45(2)$, $\nu=0.77(3)$, and $\beta=0.60(3)$, which are qualitatively different from the mean-field results but are reasonably close to the ones obtained from renormalization group calculations.

Authors

  • Zi-Xiang Li

    Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

  • Yifan Jiang

    Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Univ

  • Hong Yao

    Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University