The Chiral Heat Effect
High Energy Physics - Theory
2012-11-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We consider the thermal response of a (3+1)-dimensional theory with a chiral anomaly on a curved space motivated by the chiral magnetic effect. We find a new phenomenon, called the chiral heat effect, such that the thermal current is induced transverse to a gradient of the temperature even on a flat space. This effect is expected to be observed in QCD experiment as well as the chiral magnetic effect. We study a similar topological effect on the spacetime with a torsion. A holographic construction is also discussed with the D3/D7 and the Sakai-Sugimoto models.
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@article{arxiv.1109.6331,
title = {The Chiral Heat Effect},
author = {Taro Kimura and Tatsuma Nishioka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6331},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
11 pages; font error corrected; published version