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The chiral magnetic effect emerges from a miroscopic level, and its interesting consequences have been discussed in the dynamics of the early universe, neutron stars and quark-gluon plasma. An instability is caused by anomalous electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Yasufumi Kojima , Yuri Miura

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 show that the evolution of magnetic fields in a primordial plasma, filled with Standard Model particles, at temperatures T > 10 MeV is strongly affected by the quantum chiral anomaly -- an effect that has been neglected previously.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-19 Alexey Boyarsky , Juerg Froehlich , Oleg Ruchayskiy

Primordial magnetic fields may account for all or part of the fields observed in galaxies. We consider the evolution of the magnetic fields created by pseudoscalar effects in the early universe. Such processes can create force-free fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 George B. Field , Sean M. Carroll

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

In the standard model of particle physics, the chiral anomaly can occur in relativistic plasmas and plays a role in the early Universe, protoneutron stars, heavy-ion collisions, and quantum materials. It gives rise to a magnetic instability…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

Topological charge changing transitions can induce chirality in the quark-gluon plasma by the axial anomaly. We study the equilibrium response of the quark-gluon plasma in such a situation to an external magnetic field. To mimic the effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenji Fukushima , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

The chiral magnetic effect (CME), arising from the chiral anomaly and enabling a mutual conversion between magnetic topology and fermionic chirality, is a key mechanism in magnetar field evolution. Previous work by Dehman & Pons (2025)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Clara Dehman

We study the evolution of magnetic fields coupled with chiral fermion asymmetry in the framework of chiral magnetohydrodynamics with zero initial total chirality. The initial magnetic field has a turbulent spectrum peaking at a certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-02 Axel Brandenburg , Kohei Kamada , Kyohei Mukaida , Kai Schmitz , Jennifer Schober

The magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions are important ingredients for many interesting phenomena, such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect, Chiral Magnetic Wave, the directed flow $v_1$ of $D^0$ mesons and the splitting of the spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-10 Anping Huang , Duan She , Shuzhe Shi , Mei Huang , Jinfeng Liao

Chiral symmetries in field theory are typically affected by an anomaly in the quantum theory. This anomaly emerges when one introduces an interaction with a Yang-Mills or gravitational background. Physical applications of this quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Adrian del Rio

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

We study the contribution of temperature-dependent chiral vortical effect to the generation and evolution of the hypermagnetic fields and the matter-antimatter asymmetries, in the symmetric phase of the early Universe, in the temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 S. Abbaslu , S. Rostam Zadeh , M. Mehraeen , S. S. Gousheh

The chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current is generated along a magnetic field. Recently, in nonequilibrium systems, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance has been observed experimentally in Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yohei Ibe , Hiroaki Sumiyoshi

We first compare different approaches to estimates of the magnitude of the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy ion collisions and show that their main difference lies in the assumptions on the length of persistence of the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-07 Berndt Müller , Andreas Schäfer

(abridged) A detailed examination of the evolution of stochastic magnetic fields between high cosmic temperatures and the present epoch is presented. A simple analytical model matching the results of the 3D MHD simulations allows for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robi Banerjee , Karsten Jedamzik

Cosmological vector fields are central to many early-Universe phenomena, including inflationary dynamics, primordial magnetogenesis, and dark-matter scenarios. However, constructing models able to generate cosmological magnetic fields while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 H. V. Ragavendra , Gianmassimo Tasinato , L. Sriramkumar

We discuss how a cosmological magnetic field could affect the expansion of the universe, through its interaction with the spacetime geometry. The tension of the field lines means that the magneto-curvature coupling tends to accelerate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. R. Matravers , C. G. Tsagas

A power expansion scheme is set up to determine the Wigner function that satisfies the quantum kinetic equation for spin-1/2 charged fermions in a background electromagnetic field. Vector and axial-vector current induced by magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-27 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

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