Abstract
We study the effects of quenched disorder on electrons in a 3D nodal-line semimetal. Disorder leads to significant renormalisations of the quasiparticle properties due to ultraviolet processes, i.e. processes of scattering in a large band of momenta, of the width exceeding the inverse mean free path. As a result, observables such as the density of states and conductivity exhibit singular behaviour in a broad range of disorder strengths, excluding a small vicinity of the singular point. We find that, for example, the density of quasiparticle states diverges as a function of the disorder strength g as ρ(g,E)∝|gc(E)−g|−2|E| for g smaller than the critical value gc(E) and crosses over to a constant for g very close to gc(E), where E is the quasiparticle energy. For certain disorder symmetries, a 3D disordered nodal-line semimetal can be mapped to a 2D metal with attractive interactions. The described disorder-driven instabilities in such a nodal-line semimetal are mapped to Cooper and exciton-condensation instabilities in a 2D metal. For other disorder symmetries, the respective instabilities are similar but not exactly dual. We discuss experimental conditions favourable for the observation of the described effects.
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