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Chirality is a ubiquitous concept in modern science, from particle physics to biology. In quantum physics, chirality of fermions is linked to topology of gauge fields by the chiral anomaly. While the chiral anomaly is usually associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

High-energy Heavy-ion collisions can generate extremely hot quark-gluon matter and also extremely strong magnetic fields and fluid vorticity. Once coupled to chiral anomaly, the magnetic fields and fluid vorticity can induce a variety of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-02 Xu-Guang Huang

The effects of event-by-event fluctuations in the initial geometry of the colliding nuclei are important in the analysis of final flow observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We use hydrodynamic simulations to study the amplitude…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-14 Jing Qian , Ulrich Heinz

The detection of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions remains challenging due to substantial background contributions that obscure the expected signal. In this Letter, we present a novel machine learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Yuji Hirono , Kazuki Ikeda , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ziyi Liu , Shuzhe Shi

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to generation of the electric current along a magnetic field in a chirally imbalanced system of quarks. The latter is predicted by quantum chromodynamics to arise from quark interaction with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-22 Yicheng Feng , Sergei A. Voloshin , Fuqiang Wang

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) induces an electric charge separation in a chiral medium along the magnetic field that is mostly produced by spectator protons in heavy-ion collisions. The experimental searches for the CME, based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Subikash Choudhury , Gang Wang , Wanbing He , Yu Hu , Huan Zhong Huang

The energy dependence of observable two particle correlator in search for the local strong parity violation in Au+Au collisions is estimated within a simple phenomenological model. The model reproduces available RHIC data but at LHC…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-29 V. D. Toneev , V. Voronyuk

High-energy, heavy-ion collisions can create local domains of chirality-imbalanced quarks, reflecting the topological features of quantum chromodynamics. The chiral magnetic effect (CME) predicts an electric charge separation of quarks in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-16 The STAR Collaboration

Chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a macroscopic transport phenomenon induced by quantum anomaly in the presence of chiral imbalance and an external magnetic field. Relativistic heavy ion collisions provide the unique opportunity to look for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Shuzhe Shi

The charge asymmetry (Ach) dependence of anisotropic flow serves as an important tool to search for the chiral magnetic wave (CMW) in heavy-ion collisions. However, the background effect, such as the local charge conservation (LCC) entwined…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-30 Chun-Zheng Wang , Wen-Ya Wu , Qi-Ye Shou , Guo-Liang Ma , Yu-Gang Ma , Song Zhang

Systematic studies of charge-dependent two- and three-particle correlations in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{\it{s}_\mathrm{{NN}}} = $ 2.76 and 5.02 TeV used to probe the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) are presented. These measurements are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-07 ALICE Collaboration

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a collective quantum phenomenon that arises from the interplay between gauge field topology and fermion chiral anomaly, encompassing a wide range of physical systems from semimetals to quark-gluon plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Prithwish Tribedy

Gribov viewed the axial anomaly as a manifestation of the collective motion of charged fermions with arbitrarily high momenta in the vacuum. In the presence of an external magnetic field and a chirality imbalance, this collective motion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

Axial charge imbalance is an essential ingredient in novel effects associated with chiral anomaly such as chiral magnetic effects (CME). In a non-Abelian plasma with chiral fermions, local axial charge can be generated a) by topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-18 Ioannis Iatrakis , Shu Lin , Yi Yin

Recently there has been significant interest in the macroscopic manifestation of chiral anomaly in many-body systems of chiral fermions. A notable example is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). Enthusiastic efforts have been made to search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-06 Anping Huang , Yin Jiang , Shuzhe Shi , Jinfeng Liao , Pengfei Zhuang

Quark interactions with topological gluon fields in QCD can yield local $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{CP}$ violations which could explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry in our universe. Effects of $\mathcal{P}$ and $\mathcal{CP}$ violations…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-29 Jie Zhao , Zhoudunming Tu , Fuqiang Wang

We present a field theoretical model of anomalous transport in Weyl semi-metals. We calculate the Chiral Magnetic and Chiral Vortical Effect in the electric, axial (valley) and energy current. Our findings coincide with the results of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Karl Landsteiner

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 study the charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in relativistic heavy ion collisions, as motivated by the search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the investigation of related background contributions. In particular we aim to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-15 John Bloczynski , Xu-Guang Huang , Xilin Zhang , Jinfeng Liao

We study the anomalous induced current of a vortex in a relativistic fluid via the chiral vortical effect, which is analogous to the anomalous current induced by a magnetic field via the chiral magnetic effect. We perform this analysis at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Karl Landsteiner , Eugenio Megias , Luis Melgar , Francisco Pena-Benitez