Anomaly/Transport in an Ideal Weyl gas
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-03 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We study some of the transport processes which are specific to an ideal gas of relativistic Weyl fermions and relate the corresponding transport coefficients to various anomaly coefficients of the system. We propose that these transport processes can be thought of as arising from the continuous injection of chiral states and their subsequent adiabatic flow driven by vorticity. This in turn leads to an elegant expression relating the anomaly induced transport coefficients to the anomaly polynomial of the Ideal Weyl gas.
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@article{arxiv.1201.2812,
title = {Anomaly/Transport in an Ideal Weyl gas},
author = {R. Loganayagam and Piotr Surówka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.2812},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
35 pages, JHEP format