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Chiral hydrodynamics in strong external magnetic fields

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-15 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We construct the general hydrodynamic description of (3+1)-dimensional chiral charged (quantum) fluids subject to a strong external magnetic field with effective field theory methods. We determine the constitutive equations for the energy-momentum tensor and the axial charge current, in part from a generating functional. Furthermore, we derive the Kubo formulas which relate two-point functions of the energy-momentum tensor and charge current to 27 transport coefficients: 8 independent thermodynamic, 4 independent non-dissipative hydrodynamic, and 10 independent dissipative hydrodynamic transport coefficients. Five Onsager relations render 5 more transport coefficients dependent. We uncover four novel transport effects, which are encoded in what we call the shear-induced conductivity, the two expansion-induced longitudinal conductivities and the shear-induced Hall conductivity. Remarkably, the shear-induced Hall conductivity constitutes a novel non-dissipative transport effect. As a demonstration, we compute all transport coefficients explicitly in a strongly coupled quantum fluid via holography.

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@article{arxiv.2012.09183,
  title  = {Chiral hydrodynamics in strong external magnetic fields},
  author = {Martin Ammon and Sebastian Grieninger and Juan Hernandez and Matthias Kaminski and Roshan Koirala and Julian Leiber and Jackson Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09183},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

matches version published in JHEP; 59 pages + appendices, 16 figures

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