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Chiral anomaly in Weyl systems: no violation of classical conservation laws

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-05-01 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The anomalous term EB\sim\mathbf{EB} in the balance of the chiral density can be rewritten as quantum current in the classical balance of density. Therefore it does not violate classical conservation laws as it is claimed to be caused by quantum fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.1809.01547,
  title  = {Chiral anomaly in Weyl systems: no violation of classical conservation laws},
  author = {Klaus Morawetz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01547},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

3 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1806.06214