Quantized chiral magnetic current from reconnections of magnetic flux
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-10-24 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We introduce a new mechanism for the chiral magnetic effect that does not require an initial chirality imbalance. The chiral magnetic current is generated by reconnections of magnetic flux that change the magnetic helicity of the system. The resulting current is entirely determined by the change of magnetic helicity, and it is quantized.
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@article{arxiv.1606.09611,
title = {Quantized chiral magnetic current from reconnections of magnetic flux},
author = {Yuji Hirono and Dmitri E. Kharzeev and Yi Yin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09611},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
9 pages, 2 figures; ver2: published version