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The $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills matrix model admits self-dual and anti-self-dual instantons. When coupled to $N_f$ flavors of massless quarks, the Euclidean Dirac equation in an instanton background has $n_+$ positive and $n_-$ negative chirality…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Nirmalendu Acharyya , Mahul Pandey , Sachindeo Vaidya

For all the success of the Standard Model (SM), it is on the verge of being surpassed. In this regard we argue, by showing a minimal flavor-structured model based on the non-Abelian discrete $SL_2(F_3)$ symmetry, that $U(1)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Y. H. Ahn

We study the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in the hadronic phase. The CME current involves pseudoscalar mesons to modify its functional form. This conclusion is independent of microscopic details. The strength of the CME current in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Shota Imaki

The role of the contribution from the fermion mass term in the axial vector Ward identity in generating the U(1) axial anomaly, both local and global, is elucidated. Gauge invariance requires the fermion to decouple from the gauge field if…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Banerjee

We study the transition between spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and conformal behavior in the SU(3) theory with multiple fermion flavors. Instead of the traditional approach of changing the number of flavors, we keep the number of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-13 Rich Brower , Anna Hasenfratz , Claudio Rebbi , Evan Weinberg , Oliver Witzel

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

Chiral symmetry restoration at nonzero temperature and quark densities are investigated in the framework of a linear sigma model with N_f=3 light quark flavors. After the derivation of the grand potential in mean-field approximation, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 Bernd-Jochen Schaefer , Mathias Wagner

We investigate the vector and axial currents induced by external electromagnetic fields and chemical potentials in chiral systems at finite temperature. Similar to the normal Hall effect, we find that an axial Hall current is generated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Shi Pu , Shang-Yu Wu , Di-Lun Yang

We investigate the chiral electric separation effect, where an axial current is induced by an electric field in the presence of both vector and axial chemical potentials, in a strongly coupled plasma via the Sakai-Sugimoto model with an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Shi Pu , Shang-Yu Wu , Di-Lun Yang

The response of chiral fermions to time and space dependent axial imbalance & constant magnetic field is analyzed. The axialvector-vector-vector (AVV) three-point function is studied using a real-time approach at finite temperature in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-01 Miklos Horvath , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao , Hai-cang Ren

The chiral fermion model with local multifermion interactions proposed in Nucl. Phys. B486 (1997) 282 and Phys. Rev. D61 (2000) 054502 processes an exact SU_L(2) chiral gauge symmetry and SU_L(2) by U_R(1) chiral flavour symmetry on a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 She-Sheng Xue

We present a first-principle study of anomaly induced transport phenomena by performing real-time lattice simulations with dynamical fermions coupled simultaneously to non-Abelian $SU(N_c)$ and Abelian $U(1)$ gauge fields. Investigating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Niklas Mueller , Sören Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to compute a conductivity associated with massive N=2 supersymmetric hypermultiplet fields at finite baryon density, propagating through an N=4 supersymmetric SU(Nc) Yang-Mills plasma in the large Nc, large…

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

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

For relativistic Weyl fermions in 3+1 dimensions, an electric current proportional to the external magnetic field is predicted. This remarkable phenomenon is called Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). Here we show that actual transports in Weyl…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-03 Hiroyuki Fujita , Masaki Oshikawa

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

We study the chiral phase transition for vector-like SU(N) gauge theories as a function of the number of quark flavors N_f by making use of an anomaly-induced effective potential. We modify an effective potential of a previous work,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Sannino , J. Schechter

We study fermions derivatively coupled to axion-like or pseudoscalar fields, and show that the axial vector current of the fermions is not conserved in the limit where the fermion is massless. This apparent violation of the classical chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Peter Adshead , Kaloian D. Lozanov

We study the flavor dependence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) by analyzing two key charge-separation correlators used to characterize the charge separation effect: the conventional $\Delta\gamma$ and the recently proposed $R_{\psi_2}$.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-28 Somdeep Dey , Abhisek Saha , Soma Sanyal

We find that the inverse magnetic catalysis for $U(1)$ axial symmetry (AIMC: axial inverse magnetic catalysis) can emerge around the chiral crossover regime in the thermomagnetic QCD with 2 + 1 flavors at physical point. This phenomenon can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-22 Yuanyuan Wang , Shinya Matsuzaki