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The essence of the chiral magnetic effect is generation of an electric current along an external magnetic field. Recently it has been studied by Rebhan et al. within the Sakai--Sugimoto model, where it was shown to be zero. As an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-15 A. Gorsky , P. N. Kopnin , A. V. Zayakin

We analyze static properties of nucleons in the two flavor holographic QCD model of Sakai and Sugimoto described effectively by a five-dimensional U(2) Yang-Mills theory with the Chern-Simons term on a curved background. The baryons are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hiroyuki Hata , Masaki Murata , Shinichiro Yamato

We study the phase structure of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in the plane of temperature and baryon chemical potential, including the effect of a nonzero current quark mass. Our study is performed in the decompactified limit of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-12 Nicolas Kovensky , Andreas Schmitt

The chiral magnetic effect in a strong magnetic field can be described using the chiral anomaly in the $(1+1)$-dimensional massive Schwinger model with a time-dependent $\theta$-term. We perform a digital quantum simulation of the model at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Yuta Kikuchi

We report the generation of a pseudovector electric current having imbalanced chirality in an electron-positron strongly magnetized gas in QED. It propagates along the external applied magnetic field B as a chiral magnetic effect in QED. It…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 J. L. Acosta Avalo , H. Perez Rojas

We calculate the electric conductivity $\sigma$ in deconfined QCD matter using a holographic QCD model, i.e., the Sakai-Sugimoto Model with varying magnetic field $B$ and chiral anomaly strength. After confirming that our estimated $\sigma$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-23 Kenji Fukushima , Akitoshi Okutsu

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a highly discussed effect in heavy-ion collisions stating that, in the presence of a magnetic field B, an electric current is generated in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon fields. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-29 Ingo Kirsch , Tigran Kalaydzhyan

We investigate the surface of the chiral phase transition in the three-dimensional parameter space of temperature, baryon chemical potential and magnetic field in two different approaches, the field-theoretical Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Florian Preis , Anton Rebhan , Andreas Schmitt

This is a second study of chiral anomaly induced transport within a holographic model consisting of anomalous $U(1)_V\times U(1)_A$ Maxwell theory in Schwarzschild-$AdS_5$ spacetime. In the first part, chiral magnetic/separation effects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Yanyan Bu , Michael Lublinsky , Amir Sharon

We discuss the Sakai-Sugimoto model at finite temperature and finite chemical potential. It is a holographic model of large N_c QCD with N_f massless quarks based on a D4/D8-\bar{D8} brane system. The near horizon limit of the D4-branes and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 N. Horigome , Y. Tanii

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we calculate the vacuum decay rate for the Schwinger effect in confining large $N_{c}$ gauge theories. The instability is induced by the quark antiquark pair creation triggered by strong electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-30 Koji Hashimoto , Takashi Oka , Akihiko Sonoda

We investigate the properties of the Sakai-Sugimoto model at finite magnetic field and baryon chemical potentials. We show that in a finite magnetic field, there exists a spatially homogeneous configuration carrying finite baryon number…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ethan G. Thompson , Dam T. Son

We study the response of the chiral magnetic effect due to continuous quenches induced by time dependent electric fields within holography. Concretely, we consider a holographic model with dual chiral anomaly and compute the electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-25 Martin Ammon , Sebastian Grieninger , Amadeo Jimenez-Alba , Rodrigo P. Macedo , Luis Melgar

We study the magnetoconductivity induced by the axial anomaly via the chiral magnetic effect in strongly coupled holographic models. An important ingredient in our models is that the axial charge is non-conserved beyond the axial anomaly.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-05 Amadeo Jimenez-Alba , Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

The chiral magnetic and the chiral vortical effects are recently discovered phenomena arising from chiral gauge and gravitational anomalies that lead to generation of electric currents in presence of magnetic field or vorticity. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Umut Gursoy , Aron Jansen

We review the Sakai-Sugimoto model of holographic QCD at zero temperature and finite chemical potential, comparing the results to those expected at large-$N_c$ QCD, and those in a closely related holographic model. We find that as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Lionel Brits , Moshe Rozali

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-30 Taro Kimura , Tatsuma Nishioka

We discuss the effect of baryonic matter on the zero-temperature chiral phase transition at finite chemical potential in the presence of a background magnetic field. The main part of our study is done in the deconfined geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Florian Preis , Anton Rebhan , Andreas Schmitt

Chiral Anomalous Magnetohydrodynamics (CAMHD) provides a low-energy effective framework for describing chiral fluids in the presence of dynamical electromagnetic fields and axial anomaly. This theory finds applications across diverse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Matteo Baggioli , Yanyan Bu , Xiyang Sun

We study the chiral phase transition in a magnetic field at finite temperature and chemical potential within the Sakai-Sugimoto model, a holographic top-down approach to (large-N_c) QCD. We consider the limit of a small separation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-18 Florian Preis , Anton Rebhan , Andreas Schmitt