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The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon in which electric charge is separated by a strong magnetic field from local domains of chirality imbalance in quantum chromodynamics. The CME-sensitive azimuthal correlator difference…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Han-Sheng Li , Yu-Shan Chang , Yi Yang , Fuqiang Wang

We propose a way to introduce the currents responsible for the Chiral Magnetic Effect, and similar phenomena, into the AdS/CFT description. Such currents are thought to occur in heavy ion collisions due to topologically non-trivial field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-08 Lionel Brits , James Charbonneau

We calculate the electromagnetic fields generated in small systems by using a multiphase transport (AMPT) model. Compared to $A+A$ collisions, we find that the absolute electric and magnetic fields are not small in $p$+Au and $d$+Au…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-22 Xin-Li Zhao , Yu-Gang Ma , Guo-Liang Ma

We study the impact of a non-uniform magnetic background field on the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in equilibrium QCD using lattice simulations with 2+1 flavors of dynamical staggered quarks at the physical point. We show that in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-17 B. B. Brandt , G. Endrődi , E. Garnacho-Velasco , G. Markó , A. D. M. Valois

We report our recent progress on the search of Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) by developing new measurements as well as by hydrodynamic simulations of CME and background effects, with both approaches addressing the pressing issue of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Xu-Guang Huang , Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

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 report on the mean-field study of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in static magnetic fields within a simple model of a parity-breaking Weyl semimetal given by the lattice Wilson-Dirac Hamiltonian with constant chiral chemical potential.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-07 P. V. Buividovich , M. Puhr , S. N. Valgushev

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a remarkable phenomenon that stems from highly nontrivial interplay of QCD chiral symmetry, axial anomaly, and gluonic topology. It is of fundamental importance to search for the CME in experiments. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Jinfeng Liao

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions originates from a chirality imbalance among quarks within metastable QCD vacuum domains and may be linked to $CP$ violation, which is believed to play a crucial role in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Jing Gu , Jinhui Chen , Jie Zhao

Gluon field configurations with nonzero topological charge induce P- and CP-odd effects. Such configurations are likely to be produced during heavy ion collisions. In this article, I will argue that in the intense (electromagnetic) magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-17 Harmen J. Warringa

The magnetic field plays a major role in the searching of the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. If the lifetime of the magnetic field is too short, as expected by simulations of the field in the vacuum, the chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-20 Sheng-Qin Feng , Xin Ai , Lei Pei , Fei Sun , Yang Zhong , Zhong-Bao Yin

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) refers to a charge separation (an electric current) of chirality imbalanced quarks generated along an external strong magnetic field. The chirality imbalance results from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-06-28 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

Isobaric $^{96}_{44}$Ru+$^{96}_{44}$Ru and $^{96}_{40}$Zr+$^{96}_{40}$Zr collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}}=200$ GeV have been conducted at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider to circumvent the large flow-induced background in searching for…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-08-03 Yicheng Feng , Yufu Lin , Jie Zhao , Fuqiang Wang

Quark interaction with topologically non-trivial gluonic fields, instantons and sphalerons, violates \P and \CP symmetry. In the strong magnetic field of a non-central nuclear collision such interactions lead to the charge separation along…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-11-20 Sergei A. Voloshin

The Weyl semimetal, due to a non-zero energy difference in the pair of Weyl nodes shows chiral magnetic effect(CME). This leads to a flow of dissipationless electric current along an applied magnetic field. Such a chiral magnetic effect in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-06 Debanand Sa

In non-central heavy-ion collisions, spectator protons that do not participate in the interaction create strong magnetic fields. The strength of these fields allows testing an effect based on the hypothesized properties of QCD. The presence…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Sizar Aziz

Background: The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is extensively studied in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. An azimuthal correlator called $R_{\Psi_{m}}$ was proposed to measure the CME. By observing the same $R_{\Psi_{2}}$ and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Yicheng Feng , Jie Zhao , Hao-jie Xu , Fuqiang Wang

Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the macroscopic manifestation of the fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as anomalous transport current in hydrodynamic framework. Experimental observation of CME…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-20 Shuzhe Shi , Yin Jiang , Elias Lilleskov , Jinfeng Liao

We study the signatures of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in $SU(2)$ gauge theory with $N_f = 2$ flavours of dynamical fermions at finite temperature $T$, quark chemical potential $\mu$ and a weak external magnetic field $e B$. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-07 P. V. Buividovich , L. von Smekal , D. Smith