The electric field inside typical conductors drops down exponentially with the screening length determined by an intrinsic length scale of the system such as the density of mobile carriers. We show that in a classically conformal system with boundaries, where the intrinsic length scale is absent, the screening of an external electric field is governed by the quantum conformal anomaly associated with the renormalization of the electric charge. The electric field decays algebraically with a fractional power determined by the beta function of the system. We argue that this `anomalous conformal screening effect' is an indirect manifestation of the Schwinger pair production in relativistic field theory. We discuss the experimental feasibility of the proposed phenomenon in Dirac and Weyl semimetals what would allow direct experimental access to the beta function.
Dynamical gap generation in 2D Dirac semimetal with deformed Dirac cone
大量的理论和实验研究表明,理想Dirac锥的石墨烯中长程库仑相互作用很弱,不可能产生动力学激子带隙。我们研究了狄拉克锥的形变对动态能隙产生的影响。当对石墨烯施加单轴应变时,狄拉克锥在等能平面内变成椭圆形,费米子速度变得各向异性。外加单轴应变有两种作用:它降低费米子速度;它增加速度各向异性。通过求解Dyson-Schwinger能隙方程,我们发现前者促进了动力学能隙的产生,而后者则抑制了动力学能隙的产生。对于悬浮石墨烯,我们发现,该系统经历激子绝缘转变时,应变约为7.34 $\%$。我们还求解了狄拉克锥倾斜情况下的能隙方程,发现狄拉克锥的倾斜可以抑制动力学能隙的产生,这在有机材料$α$ -(BEDT-TTF)$_{2}$ I $_{3}$中可能实现.结果表明,狄拉克锥的几何形状在激子对的形成中起着重要的作用。
Domain structure dynamics in the ferromagnetic Kagome-lattice Weyl semimetal Co$_3$Sn$_2$S$_2$
Co $_3$ Sn $_2$ S $_2$是一种Weyl半金属,由Kagome晶格层组成,在177 K以下从高温顺磁相转变为低温铁磁相。相变通过中间的非平凡磁相发生,所谓的“A”相刚好低于居里温度。“A”相早期与竞争性反铁磁相,自旋玻璃相和某些间接测量表明磁性Skyrmions在这个阶段的可能性。我们用磁力显微镜观察了Co $_3$ Sn $_2$ S $_2$单晶在不同温度、磁场和场角下的磁畴结构。在低温下,我们观察到条纹域表示存在单轴各向异性。在130 K以上,畴壁变得可移动,当磁场沿$c$轴比沿$a-b$平面增加时,畴壁趋向于相对容易地排列.我们的详细的研究领域依赖的域动力学揭示,低于$T_c$的相变的异常性质是占主导地位的畴壁运动。