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Chiral effects exhibit peculiar universality in idealized theoretical limits. However, they are known to be infrared sensitive and get modified in more realistic settings. In this work, we study how the corresponding conductivities vary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-29 A. Avdoshkin , A. V. Sadofyev , V. I. Zakharov

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

Chiral anomalous effects in relativistic plasmas are reviewed. The essence of chiral separation and chiral magnetic effects is explained in simple terms. Qualitative differences between the two phenomena, both of which are triggered by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

In this report, we briefly examine the current status of the study of the chiral magnetic effect including theory and experimental progress. We recommend future strategies for resolving uncertainties in interpretation including…

We review recent progress on the lattice simulations of the chiral magnetic effect. There are two different approaches to analyze the chiral magnetic effect on the lattice. In one approach, the charge density distribution or the current…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-05 Arata Yamamoto

Gluon field configurations with nonzero topological charge generate chirality, inducing P- and CP-odd effects. When a magnetic field is applied to a system with nonzero chirality, an electromagnetic current is generated along the direction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

We study relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with longitudinal boost invariance in the presence of chiral magnetic effects and finite electric conductivity. With initial magnetic fields parallel or anti-parallel to electric fields, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Irfan Siddique , Ren-jie Wang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

We study the current of chiral charge density in a Dirac semimetal with two Dirac points in momentum space, subjected to an externally applied time dependent electric field and in the presence of a magnetic field. Based on the kinetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Alexander A. Zyuzin , M. Silaev , Vladimir A. Zyuzin

We review briefly a few topics concerning physics of fluids whose constituents are massless fermions interacting in chiral invariant way. Macroscopic manifestations of the chral anomaly is one of central issues. Another topic is ultraviolet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-29 V. I. Zakharov , O. V. Teryaev

In the presence of cosmic chiral asymmetry, chiral-vorticity and chiral-magnetic effects can play an important role in the generation and evolution of magnetic fields in the early universe. We include these chiral effects in the magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Tanmay Vachaspati , Alexander Vilenkin

Gribov viewed the axial anomaly as a manifestation of the collective motion of charged fermions with arbitrarily high momenta in the vacuum. In the presence of an external magnetic field and a chirality imbalance, this collective motion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

A short review of recent advances in understanding the dynamics of relativistic matter in a magnetic field is presented. The emphasis is on the dynamics related to the generation of the chiral shift parameter in the normal ground state. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-21 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

We derive a nonlocal effective Lagrangian for the chiral magnetic effect. An electric field is generated by winding number fluctuations of the nonabelian gauge field in the presence of a strong magnetic field. We estimate the magnitude of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Berndt Müller , Andreas Schäfer

We study the influence of the chiral phase transition on the chiral magnetic effect. The chiral electric current density along the magnetic field, the electric charge difference between on each side of the reaction plane, and the azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Wei-jie Fu , Yu-xin Liu , Yue-liang Wu

The effects of an external field on the dynamics of chiral symmetry breaking are studied using quenched, ladder QED as our model gauge field theory. It is found that a uniform external magnetic field enables the chiral symmetry to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. N. Leung

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a collective quantum phenomenon that arises from the interplay between gauge field topology and fermion chiral anomaly, encompassing a wide range of physical systems from semimetals to quark-gluon plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Prithwish Tribedy

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

An overview of the field of Chiral Lagrangians is given. This includes Chiral Perturbation Theory and resummations to extend it to higher energies, applications to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, $\epsilon^\prime/\epsilon$ and others.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Johan Bijnens

We study some properties of the non-Abelian vacuum induced by strong external magnetic field. We perform calculations in the quenched SU(3) lattice gauge theory with tadpole-improved Luscher-Weisz action and chirally invariant lattice Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-20 V. V. Braguta , P. V. Buividovich , T. Kalaydzhyan , S. V. Kuznetsov , M. I. Polikarpov

We point out that there is a difference between the behavior of fermionic systems (and their holographic analogs) in a background axial vector field, on the one hand, and at finite chiral chemical potential, on the other. In the former…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-12 V. A. Rubakov