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We derive an electric current density $j_{em}$ in the presence of a magnetic field $B$ and a chiral chemical potential $\mu_5$. We show that $j_{em}$ has not only the anomaly-induced term $\propto \mu_5 B$ (i.e. Chiral Magnetic Effect) but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kenji Fukushima , Marco Ruggieri

The transport properties of massless fermions in $3+1$ spacetime dimension have been in the focus of recent theoretical and experimental research. New transport properties appear as consequences of chiral anomalies. The most prominent is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu

Matter with chiral fermions is microscopically described by theory with quantum anomaly and macroscopically described (at low energy) by anomalous hydrodynamics. For such systems in the presence of external magnetic field and chirality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-10 Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

We consider the recently discovered Dirac semimetals with two Dirac points $\pm{\bf K}$. In the presence of elastic deformations each fermion propagates in a curved space, whose metric is defined by the expansion of the effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 M. A. Zubkov

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

In quantum chromodynamics, a gauge field configuration with nonzero topological charge generates a difference between the number of left- and right-handed quarks. When a (electromagnetic) magnetic field is added to this configuration, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kenji Fukushima , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

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

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

The chiral magnetic effect is a one of the exotic bulk transport properties of the Weyl semimetals. Because of the Nielsen-Ninomiya "no-go theorem", the total chiral magnetic current is absent in the equilibrium state. One of the mechanisms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 Zaur Z. Alisultanov

Chiral anomalous effects in relativistic plasmas are reviewed. The essence of chiral separation and chiral magnetic effects is explained in simple terms. Qualitative differences between the two phenomena, both of which are triggered by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

The axial magnetic effect, i.e., the generation of an energy current parallel to an axial magnetic field coupling with opposite signs to left- and right-handed fermions is a non-dissipative transport phenomenon intimately related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-28 Maxim N. Chernodub , Alberto Cortijo , Adolfo G. Grushin , Karl Landsteiner , Maria A. H. Vozmediano

We compute the electric-current susceptibility \chi of hot quark-gluon matter in an external magnetic field B. The difference between the susceptibilities measured in the directions parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kenji Fukushima , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

We identify a new contribution to the chiral magnetic conductivity at finite frequencies -- the magnetization current. This allows to quantitatively reproduce the known field-theoretic time-dependent (AC) chiral magnetic response in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Mikhail A. Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a quantum relativistic effect that describes the appearance of an additional electric current along a magnetic field. It is caused by an asymmetry between the number densities of left- and right-handed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Jennifer Schober , Axel Brandenburg , Igor Rogachevskii

Recently it is found that Weyl anomaly leads to new anomalous currents in an external electromagnetic field in the curved spacetime. For simplicity, the initial works mainly focus on weak gravitational fields and the anomalous current is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-20 Jiang-Jin Zheng , Dongqi Li , Yu-Qian Zeng , Rong-Xin Miao

We concisely derive chiral magnetic effect through Wigner function approach for chiral fermion system. Then we derive chiral magnetic effect through solving the Landau levels of chiral fermions in detail. The procedures of second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Ren-Da Dong , Ren-Hong Fang , De-Fu Hou , Duan She

For systems with charged chiral fermions, the imbalance of chirality in the presence of magnetic field generates an electric current - this is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). We study the dynamical real-time evolution of electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-29 Yuji Hirono , Dmitri Kharzeev , Yi Yin

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

In the chiral magnetic effect, there is a competition between a strong magnetic field, which tends to project positively charged particles to have spin aligned along the magnetic field, and a chirality imbalance which may be produced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

We study the influence of the chiral phase transition on the chiral magnetic effect. The chiral electric current density along the magnetic field, the electric charge difference between on each side of the reaction plane, and the azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Wei-jie Fu , Yu-xin Liu , Yue-liang Wu