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Eddy magnetization from the chiral Barnett effect

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-04-15 v3 Quantum Gases

Abstract

We discuss the spin, the angular momentum, and the magnetic moment of rotating chiral fermions using a kinetic theory. We find that, in addition to the chiral vortical contribution along the rotation axis, finite circular spin polarization is induced by the spin-momentum correlation of chiral fermions, which is canceled by a change in the orbital angular momentum. We point out that the eddy magnetic moment is nonvanishing due to the gg-factors, exhibiting the chiral Barnett effect.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08016,
  title  = {Eddy magnetization from the chiral Barnett effect},
  author = {Kenji Fukushima and Shi Pu and Zebin Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08016},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure; Some typos are fixed and some reference are added

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