Higgs amplitude mode in massless Dirac fermion systems

The Higgs amplitude mode in superconductors is the condensed-matter analogy of Higgs bosons in particle physics. We investigate the time evolution of Higgs amplitude mode in massless Dirac systems induced by a weak quench of an attractive interaction. We find that the Higgs amplitude mode in the half-filled honeycomb lattice has a logarithmic decaying behavior, qualitatively different from the 1/root t decay in the normal superconductors. Our study is also extended to the doped cases in honeycomb lattices. As for the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal at half filling, we obtain an undamped oscillation of the amplitude mode. Our finding is not only an important supplement to the previous theoretical studies on normal fermion systems but also provides an experimental signature to characterize the superconductivity in two-or three-dimensional Dirac systems.