Title : |
Interacting massless Dirac fermions with spin-charge flip symmetry |
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Speaker | : | Emilie Huffman, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo |
Date | : | September 23, 2021 |
Time | : | 3:30 PM |
Venue | : | Online Google Meet |
Abstract | : |
We study a quantum phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in a new two-dimensional bipartite lattice model of electrons that is amenable to sign-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations. Importantly, interactions in our model are not only invariant under $SU(2)$ symmetries of spin and charge like the Hubbard model, but they also preserve an Ising like electron spin-charge flip symmetry. From unbiased fermion bag Monte Carlo simulations with up to 2304 sites, we show that the massive fermion phase spontaneously breaks this Ising symmetry, picking either anti-ferromagnetism or superconductivity and that the transition at which both orders are simultaneously quantum critical, belongs to a new "chiral spin-charge symmetric" universality class. We explain our observations using effective potential and renormalization group calculations within the framework of a continuum field theory. |