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Kinetic derivation of generalized phase space Chern-Simons theory

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-04-05 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study anomalous transport phenomena induced by phase-space Berry curvature. For that purpose we construct a kinetic theory in 2d2d phase space when all abelian Berry curvatures are nonzero. We derive anomalous currents by calculating the complete form of the Poisson brackets of phase space coordinates. Then we construct the low-energy effective theory to reproduce the anomalous currents obtained from the kinetic theory. Such an effective theory is given by the Chern-Simons theory in 1+2d1+2d dimensions. Some implications of the Chern-Simons theory are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1610.01879,
  title  = {Kinetic derivation of generalized phase space Chern-Simons theory},
  author = {Tomoya Hayata and Yoshimasa Hidaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01879},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

17pages, no figure; (v2) accepted version for publication in PRB