Anomaly non-renormalization in interacting Weyl semimetals (Q2030381): Difference between revisions

In the present study, the authors mainly focused their attention on Weyl semimetals, which are 3D condensed matter systems (for instance Na3Bi, TaAs, GdPtBi, ZrTe5,) characterized by a degenerate Fermi surface consisting of a pair of ``Weyl nodes''. Making use of a class of interacting 3D lattice models for Weyl semimetals, they concluded that the quadratic response of the quasi-particle flow between the Weyl nodes, which is the counterpart of the chiral anomaly in the emergent QFT description of the system, is universal. The proof is valid arbitrarily close to the critical point where the Weyl points merge and the relativistic description breaks down and it relies on constructive bounds for the Euclidean ground state correlations combined with lattice Ward Identities. Since the quantity is independent of the interaction strength and form, it can be added to the limited list of universal transport coefficients in condensed matter. On the other hand, the investigation is a signifcant example of universal quantum transport coefficient in three dimensions.