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Electrons in moir\'e flat band systems can spontaneously break time reversal symmetry, giving rise to a quantized anomalous Hall effect. Here we use a superconducting quantum interference device to image stray magnetic fields in one such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 C. L. Tschirhart , M. Serlin , H. Polshyn , A. Shragai , Z. Xia , J. Zhu , Y. Zhang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. E. Huber , A. F. Young

Chiral defect fermions in the background of an external, $2n$ dimensional gauge field are considered. Assuming first a finite extra dimension, we calculate the axial anomaly in a vector-like, gauge invariant model for arbitrary $n$, and the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Yigal Shamir

We study the (2+1)-dimensional Dirac oscillator in the presence of an external uniform magnetic field ($B$). We show how the change of the strength of $B$ leads to the existence of a quantum phase transition in the chirality of the system.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 C. Quimbay , P. Strange

Many recent experiments addressed manifestations of electronic crystals, particularly the charge density waves, in nano-junctions, under electric field effect, at high magnetic fields, together with real space visualizations by STM and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-23 Serguei Brazovskii , Natasha Kirova

The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Qiang Li , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Cheng Zhang , Yuan Huang , I. Pletikosic , A. V. Fedorov , R. D. Zhong , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

We outline a novel chiral kinetic theory framework for systematic computations of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The real part of the fermion determinant in the QCD effective action is expressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Niklas Mueller , Raju Venugopalan

We propose that chirally asymmetric plasma can be produced in the gap regions of the magnetospheres of pulsars and black holes. We show that, in the case of supermassive black holes situated in active galactic nuclei, the chiral charge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 E. V. Gorbar , I. A. Shovkovy

In a Hamiltonian formalism we study chiral symmetry for lattice Fermions formulated in terms of Shockley surface states bound to a wall in an extra spatial dimension. For hadronic physics this provides a natural scheme for taking quark…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Michael Creutz , Ivan Horvath

We consider a Dirac fermion in a metric-axial-tensor (MAT) background. By regulating it with Pauli-Villars fields we analyze and compute its full anomaly structure. Appropriate limits of the MAT background allows to recover the anomalies of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Fiorenzo Bastianelli , Matteo Broccoli

The rotating relativistic fermion system is considered. The consideration is based on the Dirac equation written in the laboratory (non - rotating) reference frame. Rotation in this approach gives rise to the effective magnetic and electric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-12 M. A. Zubkov

We show on the basis of an effective theory of QCD that a wide variety of observables in the hadron world is governed by the chiral symmetry together with an interplay between the axial anomaly and the explicit symmetry breaking due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Teiji Kunihiro

The chiral plasmon modes of relativistic matter in background magnetic and strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields are studied in detail using the consistent chiral kinetic theory. The results reveal a number of anomalous features of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We show that a version of the covariant gauge anomaly for a 3+1 dimensional chiral fermion interacting with a non-Abelian gauge field can be obtained from the classical Hamiltonian flow of its probability distribution in phase space. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Michael Stone , Vatsal Dwivedi

We uncover a remarkable quantum scattering phenomenon in two-dimensional Dirac material systems where the manifestations of both classically integrable and chaotic dynamics emerge simultaneously and are electrically controllable. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Hong-Ya Xu , Guang-Lei Wang , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

In the presence of boundaries, the quantum anomalies acquire additional boundary terms. In odd dimensions the integrated conformal anomaly, for which the bulk contribution is known to be absent, is non-trivial due to the boundary terms.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-21 Amin Faraji Astaneh , Sergey N. Solodukhin

Modification of the photon dispersion relation in chiral matter enables $1\to 2$ scattering. As a result, the single fermion and photon states are unstable to photon radiation and pair production respectively. In particular, a fast fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Kirill Tuchin

The CPT anomaly, which was first seen in perturbation theory for certain four-dimensional chiral gauge theories, is also present in the exact result for a class of two-dimensional chiral U(1) gauge theories on the torus. Specifically, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 F. R. Klinkhamer , J. Nishimura

Chiral anomaly implies the existence of non-dissipative transport phenomena, such as the chiral magnetic effect. At second order in the derivative expansion, novel quantum transport phenomena emerge. In this paper, we focus on the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-23 Matteo Buzzegoli , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Yu-Chen Liu , Shuzhe Shi , Sergei A. Voloshin , Ho-Ung Yee

We argue that a close analog of the axial-current anomaly of quantum field theories with fermions occurs in the classical Euler fluid. The conservation of the axial current (closely related to the helicity of inviscid barotropic flow) is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 A. G. Abanov , P. B. Wiegmann

We study relation between Chiral Separation Effect (CSE) and Chiral Anomaly, and argue that CSE does not inherit the immutability of Chiral Anomaly. For QED in the leading order in electric charge, with point-splitting regularization in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Z. V. Khaidukov , R. A. Abramchuk