Fermion-sign-free Majarana-quantum-Monte-Carlo studies of quantum critical phenomena of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

Abstract

Quantum critical phenomena may be qualitatively different when massless Dirac fermions are present at criticality. Using our recently-discovered fermion-sign-free Majorana quantum Monte Carlo (MQMC) method introduced by us in Ref. [1], we investigate the quantum critical phenomena of {\it spinless} Dirac fermions at their charge-density-wave (CDW) phase transitions on the honeycomb lattice having $N_s=2L^2$ sites with largest $L=24$. By finite-size scaling, we accurately obtain critical exponents of this so-called Gross-Neveu chiral-Ising universality class of {\it two} (two-component) Dirac fermions in 2+1D: $\eta =0.45(2)$, $\nu =0.77(3)$, and $\beta =0.60(3)$, which are qualitatively different from the mean-field results but are reasonably close to the ones obtained from renormalization group calculations.

Comments: 5.3 pages, Published as part of "Focus on Topological Physics: From Condensed Matter to Cold Atoms and Optics" in New Journal of Physics