pith. sign in

arxiv: 1805.00018 · v3 · pith:DQK46RYTnew · submitted 2018-04-30 · ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn

Vanishing density of states in weakly disordered Weyl semimetals

classification ❄️ cond-mat.dis-nn
keywords disorderstatesdensitypointsvanishesweylaveragedbelow
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

The Brillouin zone of the clean Weyl semimetal contains points at which the density of states (DoS) vanishes. Previous work suggested that below a certain critical concentration of impurities this features is preserved including in the presence of disorder. This result got criticized for its neglect of rare disorder fluctuations which might bind quantum states and hence generate a finite DoS. We here show that in spite of their existence these states are so fragile that their contribution effectively vanishes when averaged over continuous disorder distributions. This means that the integrity of the nodal points remains protected for weak disorder.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.