Model for continuous thermal metal to insulator transition

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作者
Jian, Chao-Ming [1 ,2 ]
Bi, Zhen [3 ]
Xu, Cenke [3 ]
机构
[1] Kavli Inst Theoret Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[2] Microsoft Res, Stn Q, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
[3] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Phys, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevB.96.115122
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T [工业技术];
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08 ;
摘要
We propose a d-dimensional interacting Majorana fermion model with quenched disorder, which gives us a continuous quantum phase transition between a diffusive thermal metal phase with a finite entropy density to an insulator phase with zero entropy density. This model is based on coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model clusters, and hence has a controlled large-N limit. The metal-insulator transition is accompanied by a spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking. We perform controlled calculations to show that the energy diffusion constant jumps to zero discontinuously at the metal-insulator transition, while the time-reversal symmetry-breaking order parameter increases continuously.
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