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The chiral magnetic and vortical effects denote the generation of dissipationless currents due to magnetic fields or rotation. They can be studied in holographic models with Chern-Simons couplings dual to anomalies in field theory. We study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Christian Copetti , Jorge Fernández-Pendás , Karl Landsteiner , Eugenio Megías

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) generated in relativistic heavy-ion collisions could be locally parity-odd. In parity-odd QGP, the electric field may induce a chiral current which is called the chiral electric separation effect (CESE). We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-22 Guo-Liang Ma , Xu-Guang Huang

To address a question of whether the chiral magnetic current is a static polarization or a genuine flow of charged particles, we elucidate the numerical formulation to simulate the net production of right-handed particles and anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-15 Kenji Fukushima

Electron transmission through chiral molecules induced by circularly polarized light can be very different for mirror-image structures, a peculiar fact given that the electronic energy spectra of the systems are identical. We propose that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Spiros S. Skourtis , David N. Beratan , Ron Naaman , Abraham Nitzan , David H. Waldeck

Based on a holographic model incorporating both chiral anomaly and gravitational anomaly, we study the effect of magneto-vortical coupling on transport properties of a strongly coupled plasma. The focus of present work is on the generation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Yanyan Bu , Shu Lin

We study the current of chiral charge density in a Dirac semimetal with two Dirac points in momentum space, subjected to an externally applied time dependent electric field and in the presence of a magnetic field. Based on the kinetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Alexander A. Zyuzin , M. Silaev , Vladimir A. Zyuzin

Chiral magnetic effect exists in an electron-positron strongly magnetized gas in QED. It is induced by an electric field parallel to the external field $\textbf{B}$, like that produced by the pseudovector longitudinal mode propagating along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-29 J. L. Acosta Avalo , H. Perez Rojas

Understanding axial charge dynamics driven by changes in Chern-Simons number densities is a key aspect in understanding the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions. Most phenomenological simulations assume that a large amount…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Sebastian Grieninger , Sergio Morales-Tejera

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

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) -- the separation of positive and negative electric charges along the direction of the external magnetic field in quark-gluon plasma and other topologically non-trivial media -- is a consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Kirill Tuchin

We study the chiral electric separation effect (CESE) in Weyl semimetals (WSM). Within the model based on the kinetic equation we show that there is a non-zero chirality current in external electric and magnetic fields. We distinguish…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

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

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

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

In this paper we introduce and compute a new transport coefficient for the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at very high temperature. This new coefficient $\sigma_{\chi e}$, the CESE (Chiral Electric Separation Effect) conductivity, quantifies the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 Yin Jiang , Xu-Guang Huang , Jinfeng Liao

Vacuum properties of quantum chromodynamics in strong magnetic and finite electric fields are investigated. We show that when a uniform electric field is instantaneously applied in the parallel direction to a strong magnetic field, it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Arata Yamamoto

The non-central Cu + Au collisions can create strong out-of-plane magnetic fields and in-plane electric fields. By using the HIJING model, we study the general properties of the electromagnetic fields in Cu + Au collisions at 200 GeV and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Wei-Tian Deng , Xu-Guang Huang

Due to the Weyl anomaly, an axial vector field produces novel anomalous chiral currents in spacetime with boundaries. Remarkably, the chiral current is not invariant under the gauge transformation of axial vector fields. As a result, more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Rong-Xin Miao , Yu-Qian Zeng

Materials with charged chiral quasiparticles in external parallel electric and magnetic fields can support an electric current that grows linearly in time, corresponding to diverging DC conductivity. From experimental viewpoint, this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

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