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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

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description of plasmas with relativistic particles necessarily includes an additional new field, the chiral chemical potential associated with the axial charge (i.e., the number difference between right- and…

We study the magnetohydrodynamics of relativistic plasmas accounting for the chiral magnetic effect (CME). To take into account the evolution of the plasma velocity, obeying the Navier-Stokes equation, we approximate it by the Lorentz force…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

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

We study the relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly and dynamical electromagnetic fields, namely Chiral MagnetoHydroDynamics (CMHD). We formulate CMHD as a low-energy effective theory based on a generalized derivative expansion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-20 Koichi Hattori , Yuji Hirono , Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

At high energies, the dynamics of a plasma with charged fermions can be described in terms of chiral magnetohydrodynamics. Using direct numerical simulations, we demonstrate that chiral magnetic waves (CMWs) can produce a chiral asymmetry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Axel Brandenburg

The exponential amplification of initial seed magnetic fields in relativistic plasmas is a very important topic in astrophysics, from the conditions in the early Universe to the interior of neutron stars. While dynamo action in a turbulent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciatini

It is well known that helical magnetic fields undergo a so-called inverse cascade by which their correlation length grows due to the conservation of magnetic helicity in classical ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). At high energies above…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Jennifer Schober , Tomohiro Fujita , Ruth Durrer

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

We study the dynamics of magnetic fields in chiral magnetohydrodynamics, which takes into account the effects of an additional electric current related to the chiral magnetic effect in high energy plasmas. We perform direct numerical…

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

We present a first principles study of chiral plasma instabilities and the onset of chiral turbulence in QED plasmas far from equilibrium. By performing classical-statistical lattice simulations of the microscopic theory, we show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-06 Mark Mace , Niklas Mueller , Sören Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

We study the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence taking into account the chiral anomaly effect. This chiral magnetohydrodynamic description of the plasma is expected to be relevant for temperatures comparable to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Petar Pavlović , Günter Sigl

Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the macroscopic manifestation of the fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as anomalous transport current in hydrodynamic framework. Experimental observation of CME…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-20 Shuzhe Shi , Yin Jiang , Elias Lilleskov , Jinfeng Liao

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

The presence of asymmetry between fermions of opposite handedness in plasmas of relativistic particles can lead to exponential growth of a helical magnetic field via a small-scale chiral dynamo instability known as the chiral magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Axel Brandenburg , Jennifer Schober , Igor Rogachevskii , Tina Kahniashvili , Alexey Boyarsky , Jurg Frohlich , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Nathan Kleeorin

We study the evolution of magnetic fields coupled with chiral fermion asymmetry in the framework of chiral magnetohydrodynamics with zero initial total chirality. The initial magnetic field has a turbulent spectrum peaking at a certain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-02 Axel Brandenburg , Kohei Kamada , Kyohei Mukaida , Kai Schmitz , Jennifer Schober

In this work the influence of the chiral anomaly effect on the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence was studied. We argue that in the early universe, before the electroweak symmetry breaking, and for temperatures high enough such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-12 Petar Pavlović , Natacha Leite , Günter Sigl

Macroscopic evolution of relativistic charged matter with chirality imbalance is described by the chiral magnetohydrodynamics (chiral MHD). One such astrophysical system is high-density lepton matter in core-collapse supernovae where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Youhei Masada , Kei Kotake , Tomoya Takiwaki , Naoki Yamamoto

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 study the dynamics of a plasma of charged relativistic fermions at very high temperature $T\gg m$, where $m$ is the fermion mass, coupled to the electromagnetic field. In particular, we derive a magneto-hydrodynamical description of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 Alexey Boyarsky , Jurg Frohlich , Oleg Ruchayskiy
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