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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) is a novel transport phenomenon, arising from the interplay between quantum anomalies and strong magnetic fields in chiral systems. In high-energy nuclear collisions, the CME may survive the expansion of the…

The experimental status is reviewed on the search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Emphasis is put on background contributions to the CME-sensitive charge correlation measurements and their effects…

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Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide an ideal environment to study the emergent phenomena in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is one of the most interesting, arising from the topological charge…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-11 Jie Zhao

The heavy ion collision provides a unique many-body environment where local domains of strongly interacting chiral medium may occur and in a sense allow environmental symmetry "violation" phenomena. For example certain anomalous transport…

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We report our recent progress on the search of Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) by developing new measurements as well as by hydrodynamic simulations of CME and background effects, with both approaches addressing the pressing issue of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Xu-Guang Huang , Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

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

Quantum anomaly is a fundamental feature of chiral fermions. In chiral materials the microscopic anomaly leads to nontrivial macroscopic transport processes such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), which has been in the spotlight lately…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-29 Shuzhe Shi , Hui Zhang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field of single-handed quarks, caused by interactions with topological gluon fields from QCD vacuum fluctuations. A major background of CME measurements in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-08 Jie Zhao

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

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

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) -- a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum chiral anomaly -- induces currents along magnetic field lines, facilitating mutual conversion between chiral asymmetry and magnetic helicity. Although the finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

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

When searching for anomalous chiral effects in heavy-ion collisions, one of the most crucial points is the relationship between the signal and the background. In this letter, we present a simulation in a modified blast wave model at LHC…

The emergence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the related anomalous current is investigated using the real time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. This method is widely used for describing strong field physics and QED vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Dániel Berényi , Péter Lévai

In this paper the emergence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the related anomalous current is investigated using the real time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. This method is widely used for describing strong field physics and QED…

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We propose a novel method to search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy ion collisions. We argue that the relative strength of the magnetic field (mainly from spectator protons and responsible for the CME) with respect to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Hao-jie Xu , Jie Zhao , Xiaobao Wang , Hanlin Li , Zi-Wei Lin , Caiwan Shen , Fuqiang Wang

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is an exact statement that connects via the axial anomaly the electric current in a system consisting of interacting fermions and gauge field with chirality imbalance that is put into a strong external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 L. Ya. Glozman

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon that arises from the QCD anomaly in the presence of an external magnetic field. The experimental search for its evidence has been one of the key goals of the physics program of the…

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At the earliest times after a heavy-ion collision, the magnetic field created by the spectator nucleons will generate an extremely strong, albeit rapidly decreasing in time, magnetic field. The impact of this magnetic field may have…

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