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We study second harmonic generation in centrosymmetric Weyl semimetal with broken time reversal symmetry. We calculate electric current density at the double frequency of the propagating electromagnetic field in the presence of applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 A. A. Zyuzin , A. Yu. Zyuzin

We study the time evolution of the chirality imbalance $n_5$ and the chiral magnetic effect (CME) under the external parallel electromagnetic fields without assuming the artificial chiral asymmetric source. We adopt the time-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-10 Hayato Aoi , Katsuhiko Suzuki

Chirality transfer between fermions and gauge fields plays a crucial role for understanding the dynamics of anomalous transport phenomena such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect. In this proceeding we present a first principles study of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 M. Mace , N. Mueller , S. Schlichting , S. Sharma

The time-evolution of the magnetic field in hot homogeneous nuclear matter has two qualitatively different stages separated by the sphaleron transition time $\tau_c$. At early times the axial chemical potential and the corresponding chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Kirill Tuchin

In thermal equilibrium the ground state of the plasma of Standard Model particles is determined by temperature and exactly conserved combinations of baryon and lepton numbers. We show that at non-zero values of the global charges a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-09 Alexey Boyarsky , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Mikhail Shaposhnikov

We discuss generation of magnetic field from cosmological perturbations. We consider the evolution of three component plasma (electron, proton and photon) evaluating the collision term between elecrons and photons up to the second order.…

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

It depends: While we find within holography that the lifetime of the magnetic field for collider energies like the ones achieved at RHIC is long enough to build up the chiral magnetic current, the lifetime of the magnetic field at LHC seems…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-06 Jewel K. Ghosh , Sebastian Grieninger , Karl Landsteiner , Sergio Morales-Tejera

We study the dynamical evolution of the so-called chiral magnetic effect in an electromagnetic conductor. To this end, we consider the coupled set of corresponding Maxwell and chiral anomaly equations, and we prove that these can be derived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Cristina Manuel , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We study the real time evolution of the chiral magnetic effect out-of-equilibrium in strongly coupled anomalous field theories. We match the parameters of our model to QCD parameters and draw lessons of possible relevance for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Sebastian Grieninger , Sergio Morales-Tejera

Violation of chiral symmetry together with change of mass sign allows a linear correction in inverse power of new physics scale to the anomalous magnetic moment of muon. In this light we analyse alternative models showing in particular that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Helder Chavez , Luis Masperi

We reexamine generation of the primordial magnetic fields, at temperature $T>80$TeV, by applying a consistent kinetic theory framework which is suitably modified to take the quantum anomaly into account. The modified kinetic equation can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-01 Arun Kumar Pandey , Jitesh R. Bhatt

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

In relativistic magnetized plasmas, asymmetry in the number densities of left- and right-handed fermions, i.e., a non-zero chiral chemical potential mu_5, leads to an electric current along the magnetic field. This causes a chiral dynamo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

The generation of a chiral shift parameter in the normal ground state of magnetized relativistic matter is discussed. The chiral shift contributes to the axial current density, but does not modify the conventional axial anomaly relation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Igor A. Shovkovy

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

Charged plasmas with chirality imbalance are unstable and tend to reduce the imbalance. This chiral plasma instability is, however, not captured in (anomalous) hydrodynamics for high-temperature non-Abelian plasmas. We derive a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-14 Yukinao Akamatsu , Naoki Yamamoto

A thermodynamic model for the generation of magnetic fields in the planets is proposed, considering crossed effects between gravitational and electric forces. The magnetic field of the Earth is estimated and found to be in agreement with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. X. Alvarez

Magnetic fields are present on all scales in the Universe. While we understand the processes which amplify the fields fairly well, we do not have a "natural" mechanism to generate the small initial seed fields. By using fully relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-18 Ellie Nalson , Adam J. Christopherson , Karim A. Malik

Quantum anomalies give rise to novel transport phenomena, including the generation of a current in a relativistic fluid due to the presence of magnetic field or vorticity. We present an exclusive and direct computation of the chiral anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Rémy Larue , Jérémie Quevillon , Diego Saviot