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We investigate the real-time dynamics of the chiral magnetic effect in quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We consider a field configuration of parallel (chromo)electric and (chromo)magnetic fields with a weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Harmen J. Warringa

Chiral magnetic effect is a quantum phenomenon that is breaking of chiral symmetry of relativistic Weyl fermions by quantum fluctuation under paralleled electric field E and magnetic field B. Intuitively, Weyl fermions with different…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-28 Yang-Yang Lv , Xiao Li , Bin Pang , Y. B. Chen , Shu-Hua Yao , Jian Zhou , Yan-Feng Chen

Weyl semimetals are predicted to realize the three-dimensional axial anomaly first discussed in particle physics. The anomaly leads to unusual transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic effect in which an applied magnetic field induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Edwin Barnes , J. J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

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

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

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon in which an electric current is induced parallel to an external magnetic field in the presence of chiral asymmetry in a fermionic system. In this paper, we show that the electric current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Kohei Kamada , Chang Sub Shin

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

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study N=4 supersymmetric SU(Nc) Yang-Mills theory, in the limits of large Nc and large 't Hooft coupling, coupled to a number Nf of massless hypermultiplet fields in the fundamental representation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-10 Andy O'Bannon

The D3/D7 holographic model aims at a better approximation to QCD by adding to N=4 SYM theory N_f of N=2 supersymmetric hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation of SU(N_c) -- the "flavor fields" representing the quarks. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

Dirac and Weyl materials possess chiral fermions, which are characterized by nontrivial topology and large Berry curvature. Chiral fermions have nontrivial interactions with magnetic fields and light. In this work, we propose three…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sahal Kaushik

We consider the quark-meson model with two quark flavors in a constant external magnetic field $B$ at finite temperature $T$ and finite baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$. We calculate the full renormalized effective potential to one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Jens O. Andersen , Rashid Khan

We describe consequences of the chiral anomaly in the theory of quantum wires, the (quantum) Hall effect, and of a four-dimensional cousin of the Hall effect. We explain which aspects of conductance quantization are related to the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Fröhlich , B. Pedrini

We consider the system of relativistic rotating fermions in the presence of rotation. The rotation is set up as an enhancement of the angular momentum. In this approach the angular velocity for the angular momentum plays the same role as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Ruslan Abramchuk , Z. V. Khaidukov , M. A. Zubkov

We use the conventional F and D octet and decimet generator matrices to reformulate chiral properties of local (non-derivative) and one-derivative non-local fields of baryons consisting of three quarks with flavor SU(3) symmetry that were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Hua-Xing Chen , V. Dmitrasinovic , Atsushi Hosaka

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

In this paper, we shall address some field theoretic issues regarding the chiral magnetic effect. The general structure of the magnetic current consistent with the electromagnetic gauge invariance is obtained and the impact of the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 Defu Hou , Hui Liu , Hai-cang Ren

We study a lattice field theory described by two flavors of massless staggered fermions interacting with U(1) gauge fields in the strong coupling limit. We show that the lattice model has a $SU(2)\times SU(2)\times U(1)$ chiral symmetry and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Shailesh Chandrasekharan , Abhijit C. Mehta

In the chiral magnetic effect an imbalance in the number of left- and right-handed quarks gives rise to an electromagnetic current parallel to the magnetic field produced in noncentral heavy-ion collisions. The chiral imbalance may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-22 Anton Rebhan , Andreas Schmitt , Stefan A. Stricker

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to perform a numerical study of a phase transition in strongly-coupled large-Nc N = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory on a 3-sphere coupled to a finite number Nf of massive N = 2 hypermultiplets in the fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Andreas Karch , Andy O'Bannon

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