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The chiral magnetic effect (CME), arising from the chiral anomaly and enabling a mutual conversion between magnetic topology and fermionic chirality, is a key mechanism in magnetar field evolution. Previous work by Dehman & Pons (2025)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Clara Dehman

The article presents a study aimed at probing the dependence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) on the magnetic field strength using the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (AVFD) model in Pb--Pb at LHC energies. The results demonstrate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Panos Christakoglou

Topological charge changing transitions can induce chirality in the quark-gluon plasma by the axial anomaly. We study the equilibrium response of the quark-gluon plasma in such a situation to an external magnetic field. To mimic the effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenji Fukushima , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

We present a real-time lattice approach to study the non-equilibrium dynamics of vector and axial charges in $SU(N) \times U(1)$ gauge theories. Based on a classical description of the non-Abelian and Abelian gauge fields, we include…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-03 Mark Mace , Niklas Mueller , Sören Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

In quantum chromodynamics, a gauge field configuration with nonzero topological charge generates a difference between the number of left- and right-handed quarks. When a (electromagnetic) magnetic field is added to this configuration, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kenji Fukushima , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a phenomenon by which an electric current develops in the direction of a magnetic field applied to a material. Recent theoretical research suggests that the CME can be observed in thermal equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Artem Ivashko , Vadim Cheianov

We compute the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in multi-Weyl semimetals (multi-WSMs) based on the chiral kinetic theory. Multi-WSMs are WSMs with multiple monopole charges that have nonlinear and anisotropic dispersion relations near Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 Tomoya Hayata , Yuta Kikuchi , Yuya Tanizaki

$\textbf{Background:}$ The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is extensively studied in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC. In the commonly used reaction plane (RP) dependent, charge dependent azimuthal correlator ($\Delta\gamma$), both the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Yicheng Feng , Jie Zhao , Fuqiang Wang

We investigate the chiral magnetic effect (CME) under a strong magnetic field B = B_0 x_3 at low temperature T < T^chi_c. For this purpose, we employ the instanton vacuum configuration with the finite instanton-number fluctuation Delta,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-07 Seung-il Nam

We present a first principles approach to study the Chiral Magnetic Effect during the pre-equilibrium stage of a heavy-ion collision. We discuss the dynamics of the Chiral Magnetic Effect and Chiral Magnetic Wave based on real-time lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-14 Mark Mace , Niklas Mueller , Soeren Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

Charge-dependent azimuthal particle correlations with respect to the second-order event plane in pPb and PbPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV have been studied with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-03-29 CMS Collaboration

We demonstrate that the prolate shape of the Uranium nucleus generates anti-correlation between spectator asymmetry and initial state ellipticity of the collision zone, providing a way to constrain the initial event shape in U+U collisions.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-07-15 Sandeep Chatterjee , Prithwish Tribedy

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

Through analyzing the quark propagator under the magnetic field, we establish that the axial anomaly originates from an additional Dirac structure in quark propagator induced by the magnetic field. This Dirac structure also allows one to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Fei Gao , Yi Lu , Minghui Ding , Xinyang Wang , Yuxin Liu

In this talk, we report our present work on the chiral magnetic effect (CME) under a strong magnetic field at low temperature. To this end, we use the instanton vacuum with the finite instanton-number fluctuation Delta, which relates to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Seung-il Nam

We study relation between Chiral Separation Effect (CSE) and Chiral Anomaly, and argue that CSE does not inherit the immutability of Chiral Anomaly. For QED in the leading order in electric charge, with point-splitting regularization in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Z. V. Khaidukov , R. A. Abramchuk

The recent lattice calculation at finite axial chemical potential suggests that the induced current density of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is somehow suppressed comparing with the standard analytical formula. We show in a NJL-type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-26 Zhao Zhang

We describe a new type of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) that should occur in Weyl semimetals with an asymmetry in the dispersion relations of the left- and right-handed chiral Weyl fermions. In such materials, time-dependent pumping of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Dmitri Kharzeev , Yuta Kikuchi , Rene Meyer

The correlations of electric currents in hot non-Abelian plasma are responsible for the experimental manifestations of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions. We evaluate these correlations using holography, and show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Sebastian Grieninger , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Motivated by the phenomenological scenario of the chiral magnetic effect that can be possibly found in high-energy heavy ion collisions, we study the role of very intense magnetic fields and strong CP violation in the phase structure of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-11 Eduardo S. Fraga , Ana Júlia Mizher