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Chiral Magnetic and Vortical Effects in Higher Dimensions at Weak Coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-09-24 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Chiral Magnetic Effect and Chiral Vortical Effect are parity odd transport phenomena originating from chiral anomaly, and have generalizations to all even dimensional space-time higher than four dimensions. We attempt to compute the associated P-odd retarded response functions in the weak coupling limit of chiral fermion theory in all even dimensions, using the diagrammatic technique of real-time perturbation theory. We also clarify the necessary Kubo formula relating the computed P-odd retarded correlation functions and the associated anomalous transport coefficients. We speculate on the 8-fold classification of topological phases.

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@article{arxiv.1406.3584,
  title  = {Chiral Magnetic and Vortical Effects in Higher Dimensions at Weak Coupling},
  author = {Ho-Ung Yee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.3584},
  year   = {2014}
}

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43 pages, 5 figures

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