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Abstract
We review some recent developments about strongly interacting relativistic Fermi theories in three spacetime dimensions. These models realize the asymptotic safety scenario and are used to describe the low-energy properties of Dirac materials in condensed matter physics. We begin with a general discussion of the symmetries of multi-flavor Fermi systems in arbitrary dimensions. Then we review known results about the critical flavor number Ncrit of Thirring models in three dimensions. Only models with a flavor number below Ncrit show a phase transition from a symmetry-broken strong-coupling phase to a symmetric weak-coupling phase. Recent simulations with chiral fermions show that Ncrit is smaller than previously extracted with various non-perturbative methods. Our simulations with chiral SLAC fermions reveal that for four-component flavors Ncrit=0.80(4). This means that all reducible Thirring models with Nr=1,2,3,⋯ show no phase transition with order parameter. Instead, we discover footprints of phase transitions without order parameter. These new transitions are probably smooth and could be used to relate the lattice Thirring models to Thirring models in the continuum. For a single irreducible flavor, we provide previously unpublished values for the critical couplings and critical exponents.
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Lu WF, Kim CK, Yee JH, Nahm K. Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory based on Gaussian wave functional approach. Int J Clin Exp Med 2001. [DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.64.025006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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