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Initial states of dense matter with nonzero electron chiral imbalance could potentially give rise to strong magnetic fields through chiral plasma instability. Previous work indicated that unless chiral chemical potential is as large as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Srimoyee Sen , Varun Vaidya

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

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

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

In this paper a pair of observables are proposed as alternative ways, by examining the fluctuation of net momentum-ordering of charged pairs, to study the charge separation induced by the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in relativistic heavy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-06-24 A. H. Tang

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 investigate the vector-current correlation Pi_{mu nu} (VCC) in the presence of a strong external magnetic field (B_0 in the z direction) at low temperature (T<T^chi_c) with C- and CP-violations, indicated by the nonzero chiral-chemical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Seung-il Nam

We present a scenario in heavy-ion collisions where different modes of collective motions are noninterdependent, driven by factorized actions in the created nuclear medium. Such physics mechanisms could each dominate at a distinct evolution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-29 Zhiwan Xu , Gang Wang , Aihong Tang , Huan Zhong Huang

Theoretical calculations have shown the possibility of P-violating bubbles in the QCD vacuum, which in combination with the strong magnetic field created in off-central heavy-ion collisions lead to novel effects such as the Chiral Magnetic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Ron Belmont

This study explores the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The CME, observed as back-to-back charge separation along the magnetic field axis, is investigated using the newly developed Sliding Dumbbell…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Madan M. Aggarwal , Anjali Attri , Sonia Parmar , Anjali Sharma , Jagbir Singh

Negative magnetoresistance in Dirac semimetals is typically considered as a manifestation of chiral magnetic effect (CME). The relation between these two phenomena has the status of a hypothesis and is based on sequence of assumptions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 R. A. Abramchuk , M. A. Zubkov

We consider the energy dependence of the local ${\cal P}$ and ${\cal CP}$ violation in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions over a large energy range within a simple phenomenological model. It is expected that at LHC the chiral magnetic effect will…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 V. D. Toneev , V. Voronyuk

We employ a 3+1D anomalous hydrodynamics with initial condition generated by HIJING to simulate the chiral vortical effect and the chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions. This allows us to calculate the charge-dependent two-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Xingyu Guo , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Xu-Guang Huang , Wei-Tian Deng , Yuji Hirono

The observation of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions remains challenging because of large flow-induced backgrounds and experimental constraints. We demonstrate that the forward-backward multiplicity asymmetry (FBMA)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-07 Kaiser Shafi , Sandeep Chatterjee

We analyze the chiral separation effect (CSE) in QCD by using the gauge/gravity duality. In QCD, this effect arises from a combination of chiral anomalies and the axial $U(1)$ anomaly. Due to the axial gluon anomaly, the value of the CSE…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Domingo Gallegos , Matti Järvinen , Eamonn Weitz

We study a relativistic plasma containing charged chiral fermions in an external electric field. We show that with the presence of both vector and axial charge densities, the electric field can induce an axial current along its direction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Xu-Guang Huang , Jinfeng Liao

In non-central heavy-ion collisions unprecedented strong magnetic fields, of the order of 10$^{18}$ Gauss, are expected to be produced. The interplay of such fields with QCD anomalies in the Quark--Gluon Plasma (QGP) has been predicted to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-09-19 Jacopo Margutti

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using quarks and antiquarks from a multiphase transport model as initial conditions, we study the chiral magnetic effect, i.e., the magnetic field induced separation of charged particles in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is predicted for mid-peripheral Au-Au collisions $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=200 GeV at RHIC. However many backgrounds can give signals that make the measurement hard to interpret. The STAR experiment has made a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-12 Ron Longacre

The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current of quarks along external magnetic field in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon fields. There is a recent evidence that this effect is observed by the STAR…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-04-30 P. V. Buividovich , M. N. Chernodub , E. V. Luschevskaya , M. I. Polikarpov