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Levy flights and non-local transport in Dirac and Weyl systems

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Abstract

We show that hydrodynamic collision processes of Dirac and Weyl systems can be described in terms of a Fokker-Planck equation with fractional derivative, corresponding to a Lévy flight in momentum space. Thus, electron-electron collisions give rise to frequent small-angle scattering processes that are interrupted by rare large-angle events. The latter give rise to superdiffusive dynamics of collective excitations. We argue that such superdiffusive dynamics is of more general importance to the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum-critical systems.

Presenters

  • Joerg Schmalian

    Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Authors

  • Joerg Schmalian

    Institute for Condensed Matter Theory, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology