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General thermodynamic equilibrium with axial chemical potential for the free Dirac field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-23 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We calculate the constitutive equations of the stress-energy tensor and the currents of the free massless Dirac field at thermodynamic equilibrium with acceleration and rotation and a conserved axial charge by using the density operator approach. We carry out an expansion in thermal vorticity to the second order with finite axial chemical potential μA\mu_A. The obtained coefficients of the expansion are expressed as correlators of angular momenta and boost operators with the currents. We confirm previous observations that the axial chemical potential induces non-vanishing components of the stress-energy tensor at first order in thermal vorticity due to breaking of parity invariance of the density operator with μA0\mu_A \ne 0. The appearance of these components might play an important role in chiral hydrodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1807.02071,
  title  = {General thermodynamic equilibrium with axial chemical potential for the free Dirac field},
  author = {M. Buzzegoli and F. Becattini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.02071},
  year   = {2022}
}

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29 pages, final version published in JHEP, typos