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We review some experimental consequences of the presence of superstrong magnetic fields of order of the nuclear scale in noncentral heavy-ion collisions. We present lattice estimates for the strength of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 P. V. Buividovich , M. I. Polikarpov , O. V. Teryaev

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 devise a test of the Chiral Magnetic and Chiral Vortical effects (CME and CVE) in relativistic heavy ion collisions that relies only on the general properties of triangle anomalies. We show that the ratio $R_{EB}=J_E/J_B$ of charge $J_E$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-23 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Dam T. Son

We study the signatures of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in $SU(2)$ gauge theory with $N_f = 2$ flavours of dynamical fermions at finite temperature $T$, quark chemical potential $\mu$ and a weak external magnetic field $e B$. We…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2026-05-07 P. V. Buividovich , L. von Smekal , D. Smith

We consider a relativistic plasma containing charged chiral fermions in an external magnetic field, e.g a chirally symmetric quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show that triangle anomalies imply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

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

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

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

We study the impact of a non-uniform magnetic background field on the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in equilibrium QCD using lattice simulations with 2+1 flavors of dynamical staggered quarks at the physical point. We show that in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-17 B. B. Brandt , G. Endrődi , E. Garnacho-Velasco , G. Markó , A. D. M. Valois

Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) is a gapless collective excitation of quark-gluon plasma in the presence of external magnetic field that stems from the interplay of Chiral Magnetic (CME) and Chiral Separation Effects (CSE); it is composed by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-17 Yannis Burnier , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Ho-Ung Yee

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

In this paper, we propose a new experiment method to check contribution of chiral magnetic effect (CME). With experimental data of DIS involving transversely polarized proton, we have calculated the 3-D charge density inside the polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Gui-Zhen Wu , Zong-Wei Zhang , Chen Gao , Yi Xu , Wei-Tian Deng

Nonlinear transport phenomena induced by chiral anomaly are explored within a 4D field theory defined holographically as $U(1)_V\times U(1)_A$ Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory in Schwarzschild-$AdS_5$. In presence of weak constant background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-20 Yanyan Bu , Tuna Demircik , Michael Lublinsky

We analyze the combined effects of hydrodynamic fluctuations and chiral magnetic effect (CME) for a chiral medium in the presence of a background magnetic field. Based on the recently developed non-equilibrium effective field theory, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-24 Noriyuki Sogabe , Naoki Yamamoto , Yi Yin

Under the approximate chiral symmetry restoration, quark interactions with topological gluon fields in quantum chromodynamics can induce chirality imbalance and parity violation in local domains. An electric charge separation ({\sc cs})…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-08 Hao-jie Xu , Xiaobao Wang , Hanlin Li , Jie Zhao , Zi-Wei Lin , Caiwan Shen , Fuqiang Wang

Background: The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is extensively studied in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. An azimuthal correlator called $R_{\Psi_{m}}$ was proposed to measure the CME. By observing the same $R_{\Psi_{2}}$ and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Yicheng Feng , Jie Zhao , Hao-jie Xu , Fuqiang Wang

We study the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in tilted multi-Weyl Semimetals (WSM) employing a two-band lattice model. We focus on the type-II phase of mWSMs, introduced by incorporating a Lorentz symmetry violating tilt term. We add to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Anirudha Menon , Souvik Chattopadhay , Banasri Basu

We present a first principles approach to study the Chiral Magnetic Effect during the pre-equilibrium stage of a heavy-ion collision. We discuss the dynamics of the Chiral Magnetic Effect and Chiral Magnetic Wave based on real-time lattice…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-03-14 Mark Mace , Niklas Mueller , Soeren Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

Built upon the state-of-the-art model a multiphase transport (AMPT), we develop a new module of chiral anomaly transport (CAT), which can trace the evolution of the initial topological charge of gauge field created through sphaleron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-01 Zilin Yuan , Anping Huang , Wen-Hao Zhou , Guo-Liang Ma , Mei Huang

We discuss three possible ways to address quantum physics behind chiral magnetic effect and electric charge fluctuation patterns in heavy ion collisions. The first one makes use of P-parity violation probed by local order parameters, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 V. Orlovsky , V. Shevchenko