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凝聚态系统中相互作用外尔费米子的相对论视界

Relativistic horizon of interacting Weyl fermions in condensed matter systems

Wei-Chi Chiu, Guoqing Chang, Gennevieve Macam, Ilya Belopolski, Shin-Ming Huang, Robert Markiewicz, Jia-Xin Yin, Zi-jia Cheng, Chi-Cheng Lee, Tay-Rong Chang, Fe… 展开作者

Wei-Chi Chiu, Guoqing Chang, Gennevieve Macam, Ilya Belopolski, Shin-Ming Huang, Robert Markiewicz, Jia-Xin Yin, Zi-jia Cheng, Chi-Cheng Lee, Tay-Rong Chang, Feng-Chuan Chuang, Su-Yang Xu, Hsin Lin, M. Zahid Hasan, Arun Bansil

AI总结:

该研究以CDW为例分析相互作用外尔费米子,提出色散锥重叠构成固态事件视界的通用框架,并指出(TaSe$_4$)$_2$I与Mo$_3$Al$_2$C为候选材料。

摘要:

拓扑、几何与强关联的交汇为凝聚态系统中涌现奇异量子相提供了诸多机会。特别是外尔费米子,为探索相互作用下单粒子物理的动力学不稳定性提供了理想平台。尽管因果性概念以及相关的时空光锥和事件视界在相对论场论中具有基础性作用,但它们尚未与量子物质中相互作用的外尔费米子激发联系起来加以考虑。在此,我们以电荷密度波(CDW)为例,揭示相互作用外尔费米子的行为,并表明系统中的一个外尔费米子只有通过与位于其能量-动量色散锥之内的其他外尔费米子相互作用,才能打开带隙。在这个意义上,因果连接或相互作用只有在色散锥重叠时才可能发生,因此每个色散锥都构成了高能物理中更常见的“事件视界”的固态类比。我们的研究通过类比高能物理中的类时事件和类空事件,将凝聚态中的相互作用相对论准粒子区分为类能量关系和类动量关系,从而为研究它们提供了一个通用框架。最后,我们考虑了两种可承载外尔CDW相的不同候选材料:(TaSe$_4$)$_2$I和Mo$_3$Al$_2$C。我们的研究极大丰富了相关现象学,并揭示了凝聚态物理与高能物理之间的新联系。

英文摘要:

The intersections of topology, geometry and strong correlations offer many opportunities for exotic quantum phases to emerge in condensed matter systems. Weyl fermions, in particular, provide an ideal platform for exploring the dynamical instabilities of single-particle physics under interactions. Despite its fundamental role in relativistic field theory, the concept of causality and the associated spacetime light cone and event horizon has not been considered in connection with interacting Weyl fermionic excitations in quantum matter. Here, by using charge-density wave (CDW) as an example, we unveil the behavior of interacting Weyl fermions and show that a Weyl fermion in a system can open a band gap by interacting only with other Weyl fermions that lie within its energy-momentum dispersion cone. In this sense, causal connections or interactions are only possible within overlapping dispersion cones and each dispersion cone thus constitutes a solid-state analogue of the more conventional `event horizon' of high-energy physics. Our study provides a universal framework for considering interacting relativistic quasiparticles in condensed matter by separating them into energy-like and momentum-like relationships in analogy with the time-like and space-like events in high-energy physics. Finally, we consider two different candidate materials for hosting the Weyl CDW phase: (TaSe$_4$)$_2$I and Mo$_3$Al$_2$C. Our study greatly enriches the phenomenology and unveils new connections between condensed matter and high-energy physics.

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