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Aspects of the pseudo Chiral Magnetic Effect in 2D Weyl-Dirac Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-12-05 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

A connection is established between the continuum limit of the low-energy tight-binding description of graphene immersed in an in-plane magnetic field and the Chiral Magnetic Effect in Quantum Chromodynamics. A combination of mass gaps that explicitly breaks the equivalence of the Dirac cones, favoring an imbalance of pseudo-chiralities, is the essential ingredient to generate a non-dissipative electric current along the external field. Currents, number densities and condensates generated from this setup are investigated for different hierarchies of the energy scales involved.

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@article{arxiv.1803.05794,
  title  = {Aspects of the pseudo Chiral Magnetic Effect in 2D Weyl-Dirac Matter},
  author = {Ana Julia Mizher and Saul Hernandez-Ortiz and Alfredo Raya and Cristian Villavicencio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05794},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

12 pages, 8 figures. Several text improvements. Accepted for publication in European Physical Journal C