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We show in the Wilson model that the contribution of the regular mass term to the four-divergence of the axial vector current in weak coupling perturbation theory is not zero in the chiral limit and is precisely the axial anomaly. Explicit…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Banerjee , Asit K. De

We propose the new nondissipative transport effect - the appearance of axial current of thermal quasiparticles in the presence of background gravity with torsion. For the non-interacting model of massless Dirac fermions the response of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Z. V. Khaidukov , M. A. Zubkov

By using the exact solutions of the Weyl equation in a constant magnetic field, the equal-time Wigner function for magnetized chiral plasma is derived. It is found that the dependence of the Wigner function on the component of momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-11 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We study fermions derivatively coupled to axion-like or pseudoscalar fields, and show that the axial vector current of the fermions is not conserved in the limit where the fermion is massless. This apparent violation of the classical chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Peter Adshead , Kaloian D. Lozanov

We solve the Wigner equation for massless spin-1/2 charged fermions near global equilibrium. The Wigner function can be obtained order by order in the power expansion of the vorticity and electromagnetic field. The Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Shi-Zheng Yang , Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang

The anomalous (i.e. non-Gaussian) dynamics of particles subject to a deterministic acceleration and a series of 'random kicks' is studied. Based on an extension of the concept of continuous time random walks to position-velocity space, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Friedrich , F. Jenko , A. Baule , S. Eule

We characterize the high-temperature thermodynamics of rotating bosons and fermions in two- (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) isotropic harmonic trapping potentials. We begin by calculating analytically the conventional virial coefficients…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-12 C. E. Berger , K. J. Morrell , J. E. Drut

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 consider N Dirac fermions on a 4-dimensional Euclidean space with a quadratic interaction given by arbitrary external Clifford-valued fields. The divergence of the axial current satisfies on the classical level a relation that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-20 Jan Dereziński , Adam Latosiński

We determine the Wigner function of a rigidly rotating quantum electrodynamics (QED) plasma in the presence of a constant magnetic field by utilizing the Riemannian normal coordinate approximation, which has been previously proposed in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 M. Kiamari , N. Sadooghi

Recently it is found that, due to Weyl anomaly, an external magnetic field can induce anomalous currents near a boundary. In this note, we study anomalous currents for complex scalars and Dirac fields in general dimensions. We develop a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Peng-Ju Hu , Qi-Lin Hu , Rong-Xin Miao

The CPT odd contribution to the effective electromagnetic action deriving from the vacuum polarization tensor in a large class of fermionic systems exhibiting Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) is calculated using thermal field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 A. Gómez , A. Martín-Ruiz , L. F. Urrutia

Using the path integral formulation in Euclidean space, we extended the calculation of the abelian chiral anomalies in the case of Lorentz violating theories by considering a new fermionic correction term provided by the standard model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Andrés Gómez , Luis Urrutia

We construct the three point function involving an axial vector current and two energy-momentum tensors for four dimensional conformal field theories. Conformal symmetry determines the form of this three point function uniquely up to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Johanna Erdmenger

We investigate the general structure of the chiral anomaly $AVV/AAA$ and $(LLL, RRR)$ vertices, in the presence of chemical potentials in perturbation theory. The study finds application in anomalous transport, whenever chirally unbalanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-06 Claudio Corianò , Mario Cretì , Stefano Lionetti , Riccardo Tommasi

The coupling between the spin of a massive Dirac fermion and the angular momentum of the medium, i.e. the gravitomagnetic moment, is shown here to be renormalized by QED interactions at finite temperature. This means that the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 M. Buzzegoli , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

We investigate on the plane the axial anomaly for euclidean Dirac fermions in the presence of a background Aharonov--Bohm gauge potential. The non perturbative analysis depends on the self--adjoint extensions of the Dirac operator and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Giacconi , S. Ouvry , R. Soldati

We present an upgraded formula for Wigner function and spin polarization of fermions emitted by a relativistic fluid at local thermodynamic equilibrium at the decoupling which improves the one obtained in refs. [1, 2] and used in numerical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Xin-Li Sheng , Francesco Becattini , Daniele Roselli

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

In this paper we calculate the effective action for neutral particles with anomalous magnetic moment in an external magnetic and electric field. We show that we can take advantage from the Foldy Wouthuysen transformation for such systems,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Barducci , R. Giachetti