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The no-drag frame for anomalous chiral fluid

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-03-30 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We show that for an anomalous fluid carrying dissipationless chiral magnetic and/or vortical currents there is a frame in which a stationary obstacle experiences no drag, but energy and charge currents do not vanish, resembling superfluidity. However, unlike ordinary superfluid flow, the anomalous chiral currents do transport entropy in this frame. We show that the second law of thermodynamics completely determines the amounts of these anomalous non-dissipative currents in the "no-drag frame" as polynomials in temperature and chemical potential with known anomaly coefficients. These general results are illustrated and confirmed by a calculation in the chiral kinetic theory and quark-gluon plasma at high temperature.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02396,
  title  = {The no-drag frame for anomalous chiral fluid},
  author = {Mikhail A. Stephanov and Ho-Ung Yee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02396},
  year   = {2016}
}

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5 pages (v2 with minor bug fixes)

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