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We present a new way of deriving effective theories of dynamical electromagnetic fields in general media. It can be used to give a systematic formulation of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with strong magnetic fields, including systems with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Michael J. Landry , Hong Liu

The charge asymmetry ($A_{\rm ch}$) dependence of the $\pi^{-}$ and $\pi^{+}$ elliptic flow difference, $\Delta v_{2}(A_{\rm ch})$, has been regarded as a sensitive observable for the possible chiral magnetic wave (CMW) in relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Hao-jie Xu , Jie Zhao , Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

We study the dynamical evolution of the so-called chiral magnetic effect in an electromagnetic conductor. To this end, we consider the coupled set of corresponding Maxwell and chiral anomaly equations, and we prove that these can be derived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Cristina Manuel , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We propose a novel method to search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy ion collisions. We argue that the relative strength of the magnetic field (mainly from spectator protons and responsible for the CME) with respect to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Hao-jie Xu , Jie Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Hanlin Li , Zi-Wei Lin , Caiwan Shen , Fuqiang Wang

The physics of capacitively coupled plasma (CCP) discharges is investigated in a mildly magnetized regime, defined by $1 \le f_{ce}/f_{rf} < 2$, where $f_{ce}$ and $f_{rf}$ denote the electron cyclotron frequency and the applied…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Deepak Gautam , Sarveshwar Sharma , Igor Kaganovich , Bhooshan Paradkar

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) contains field configurations which can be characterized by a topological invariant, the winding number Q_w. Configurations with nonzero Q_w break the charge-parity CP symmetry of QCD. We consider a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Larry D. McLerran , Harmen J. Warringa

A density wave in quark matter is discussed at finite temperature, which occurs along with the chiral condensation, and is described by a dual standing wave in scalar and pseudo-scalar condensates on the chiral circle. The mechanism is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 E. Nakano , T. Tatsumi

The experimental results on heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC indicate that QCD plasma behaves as a nearly perfect fluid described by relativistic hydrodynamics. Hydrodynamics is an effective low-energy Theory Of Everything stating that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

The isobaric collision experiment at RHIC provides the unique opportunity to detect the possible signal of Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy ion collisions. The idea is to contrast the correlation observables of the two colliding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Shuzhe Shi , Hui Zhang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao

Nonlinear axisymmetric cylindrical plasma oscillations in magnetized collisionless plasmas are a model for the electron fluid collapse on the axis behind an ultrashort relativisically intense laser pulse exciting a plasma wake wave. We…

We consider the formation of chiral density waves in Quarkyonic matter, which is a phase where cold, dense quarks experience confining forces. We model confinement following Gribov and Zwanziger, taking the gluon propagator, in Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Toru Kojo , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Larry McLerran , Robert D. Pisarski

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 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

The relativistic heavy-ion collisions create both hot quark-gluon matter and strong magnetic fields, and provide an arena to study the interplay between quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics. In recent years, it has been shown…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-01-16 Koichi Hattori , Xu-Guang Huang

Chiral magnets possess topological line excitations where the magnetization within each cross section forms a skyrmion texture. We study analytically and numerically the low-energy, non-linear dynamics of such a skyrmion string in a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-04 Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Ulrich K. Rößler , Jeroen van den Brink , Markus Garst

Using a two-fluid approach, we consider the properties of relativistically nonlinear (arbitrary $a_0$), circularly polarized \EM\ waves propagating along magnetic field in electron-ion and pair plasmas. Dispersion relations depend on how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-15 Maxim Lyutikov

In materials with one-dimensional electronic bands, electron-electron interactions can produce intriguing quantum phenomena, including spin-charge separation and charge density waves (CDW). Most of these systems, however, are non-magnetic,…

In conventional general relativity without torsion, high-frequency gravitational waves couple to the chiral number density of spin one-half quanta: the polarization of the waves is rotated by $2\pi N_5 {\ell_{\rm Pl}^2}$, where $N_5$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-14 Adam D. Helfer

The search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) has been a subject of great interest in the field of high-energy heavy-ion collision physics, and various observables have been proposed to probe the CME. Experimental observables are often…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Ryan Milton , Gang Wang , Maria Sergeeva , Shuzhe Shi , Jinfeng Liao , Huan Zhong Huang

The extremely large electromagnetic fields generated in heavy-ion collisions provide access to novel observables that are expected to constrain various key transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma and could help solve one of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-08 Andrea Dubla , Umut Gürsoy , Raimond Snellings