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We present holographic computations of the time-dependent chiral magnetic conductivity in the framework of gauge/gravity correspondence. Chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current parallel to an applied magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Ho-Ung Yee

In this paper, we shall address some field theoretic issues regarding the chiral magnetic effect. The general structure of the magnetic current consistent with the electromagnetic gauge invariance is obtained and the impact of the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 Defu Hou , Hui Liu , Hai-cang Ren

The quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions contains charged chiral fermions evolving in an external magnetic field. At finite density of electric charge or baryon number (resulting either from nuclear stopping or from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-14 Y. Burnier , D. E. Kharzeev , J. Liao , H. -U. Yee

Time evolution of electromagnetic field created in heavy-ion collisions strongly depends on the electromagnetic response of the quark-gluon plasma, which can be described by the Ohmic and chiral conductivities. The later is intimately…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-10 Kirill Tuchin

In this work the influence of the chiral anomaly effect on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence was studied. We argue that in the early universe, before the electroweak symmetry breaking, and for temperatures high enough such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Petar Pavlović , Natacha Leite , Günter Sigl

Chirality is a ubiquitous concept in modern science, from particle physics to biology. In quantum physics, chirality of fermions is linked to topology of gauge fields by the chiral anomaly. While the chiral anomaly is usually associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Gravitational counterpart of the chiral magnetic effect, which is referred as the chiral gravitational effect, can also be of interest in a cosmological setup. In this study, we investigate this effect in the time-dependent chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-18 Kohei Kamada , Jun'ya Kume , Yusuke Yamada

The chiral magnetic effect with a fluctuating chiral imbalance is more realistic in the evolution of quark-gluon plasma, which reflects the random gluonic topological transition. Incorporating this dynamics, we calculate the chiral magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 Lei Yin , De-fu Hou , Hai-cang Ren

The emergent axion excitations in the quark-gluon plasma are generated by the sphaleron transitions. Their interactions with the photon and gluon fields are governed by the axion electro- and chromodynamics respectively. We discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-26 Jeremy Hansen , Kirill Tuchin

The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current of quarks along external magnetic field in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon fields. There is a recent evidence that this effect is observed by the STAR…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-30 P. V. Buividovich , M. N. Chernodub , E. V. Luschevskaya , M. I. Polikarpov

We perform the first systematic study of the nonlinear electromagnetic currents induced by external electromagnetic field in quark-gluon plasma, both in the two cases that the inhomogeneity of electromagnetic field is small (large) so that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-27 Daisuke Satow

For (3+1)-dimensional fermions, a net axial charge and external magnetic field can lead to a current parallel to the magnetic field. This is the chiral magnetic effect. We use gauge-gravity duality to study the chiral magnetic effect in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Carlos Hoyos , Tatsuma Nishioka , Andy O'Bannon

We study the excitation of the electric current of chiral fermions along the external magnetic field, known as the chiral magnetic effect, in the presence of the background axial-vector field. The calculation of the current is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Maxim Dvornikov

High-energy Heavy-ion collisions can generate extremely hot quark-gluon matter and also extremely strong magnetic fields and fluid vorticity. Once coupled to chiral anomaly, the magnetic fields and fluid vorticity can induce a variety of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-02 Xu-Guang Huang

We argue that the presence of a very strong magnetic field in the chirally broken phase induces inhomogeneous expectation values, of a spiral nature along the magnetic field axis, for the currents of charge and chirality, when there is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

This dissertation studies the quantum anomalous effects on the description of high energy electrodynamics. We argue that on the temperatures comparable to the electroweak scale, characteristic for the early Universe and objects like neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-23 Petar Pavlović

We demonstrate that in a chiral plasma subject to an external magnetic field, the chiral vortical effect can induce a new type of magnetohydrodynamic instability which we refer to as the {\it chiral magnetovortical instability}. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-14 Shuai Wang , Xu-Guang Huang

Chirality transfer between fermions and gauge fields plays a crucial role for understanding the dynamics of anomalous transport phenomena such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect. In this proceeding we present a first principles study of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 M. Mace , N. Mueller , S. Schlichting , S. Sharma

In relativistic magnetized plasmas, asymmetry in the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions, i.e., a non-zero chiral chemical potential mu_5, leads to an electric current along the magnetic field. This causes a chiral dynamo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

We study the nature of the chiral transition for an effective theory with spontaneous breaking of symmetry, where charged bosons and fermions are subject to the effects of a constant external magnetic field. The problem is studied in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 Alejandro Ayala , Luis Alberto Hernandez , Ana Julia Mizher , Juan Cristobal Rojas , Cristian Villavicencio