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Kinetic theory with Berry curvature from quantum field theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-01 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

A kinetic theory can be modified to incorporate triangle anomalies and the chiral magnetic effect by taking into account the Berry curvature flux through the Fermi surface. We show how such a kinetic theory can be derived from underlying quantum field theories. Using the new kinetic theory, we also compute the parity-odd correlation function that is found to be identical to the result in the perturbation theory in the next-to-leading order hard dense loop approximation.

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@article{arxiv.1210.8158,
  title  = {Kinetic theory with Berry curvature from quantum field theories},
  author = {Dam Thanh Son and Naoki Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.8158},
  year   = {2013}
}

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21 pages; v2: typos fixed, references updated, published version