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We will consider the torsional completion of gravity for a background filled with Dirac matter fields, studying the weak-gravitational non-relativistic approximation, in view of an assessment about their effective phenomenology: we discuss…

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We investigate linear and nonlinear transverse planar transport phenomena (viz. linear and nonlinear Hall and Nernst coefficients) induced by chiral anomaly in three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled metallic systems. Unlike Weyl semimetals,…

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We construct a world-line representation for the fermionic one-loop effective action with axial and also vector, scalar, and pseudo-scalar couplings. We use this expression to compute a few selected scattering amplitudes. These allow us to…

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We demonstrate that, apart from the chiral anomaly, Dirac semimetals possess another quantum anomaly, which we call the mirror anomaly, and which manifests in a singular response of the Dirac semimetal to an applied magnetic field. Namely,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 A. A. Burkov

We demonstrate that introducing altermagnetism on the surface of a weak topological insulator (TI) results in the emergence of a single massless Dirac fermion, exhibiting a parity anomaly. To explore the transport properties induced by this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Yu-Hao Wan , Qing-Feng Sun

We present a real-time lattice approach to study the non-equilibrium dynamics of vector and axial charges in $SU(N) \times U(1)$ gauge theories. Based on a classical description of the non-Abelian and Abelian gauge fields, we include…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-03-03 Mark Mace , Niklas Mueller , Sören Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

We study the $2d$ chiral Gross-Neveu model at finite temperature $T$ and chemical potential $\mu$. The analysis is performed by relating the theory to a $SU(N)\times U(1)$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model with appropriate levels and global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-25 Riccardo Ciccone , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Marco Serone

A non-Abelian gauge field with a topological action is coupled to a spin 3/2 Majorana spinor. The symmetries of this model are analyzed using the Dirac constraint formalism. These symmetries include a Fermionic symmetry and the algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 D. G. C. McKeon

I present the recent developments in a specific sub-field of chiral gauge theories on the lattice. This sub-field pertains to the use of infinitely many fermi fields to describe a single chiral field. In this approach, both anomalous and…

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This is the second in a series of two contributions in which we set out to establish a novel momentum space framework to treat field theoretical infinities in perturbative calculations when parity-violating objects occur. Since no analytic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. P. Baeta Scarpelli , M. Sampaio , M. C. Nemes , B. Hiller

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…

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We show that noncommutative U(r) gauge theories with a chiral fermion in the adjoint representation can be constructed on the lattice with manifest star-gauge invariance in arbitrary even dimensions. Chiral fermions are implemented using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Nishimura , M. A. Vazquez-Mozo

We calculate the anomalous part of the polarization tensor of Dirac fermions in $2+1$ dimensions in the presence of impurities described by the scattering rate $\Gamma$ for arbitrary external frequency and momenta. We consider two different…

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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 consider the field theory of a quantum massless left handed fermion coupled to a background graviton field, $h_{\mu\nu}$, on four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By using the BPHZL renormalization scheme, we prove that, up to order four…

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We study the excitation of the electric current of chiral fermions along the external magnetic field, known as the chiral magnetic effect, in the presence of the background axial-vector field. The calculation of the current is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Maxim Dvornikov

We simulate SU(2) gauge theory with six massless fundamental Dirac fermions. By using the Schr\"odinger Functional method we measure the running of the coupling and the fermion mass over a wide range of length scales. We observe very slow…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Francis Bursa , Luigi Del Debbio , Liam Keegan , Claudio Pica , Thomas Pickup

Topological semimetals is a new class of condensed matter systems with nontrivial electronic structure topology. Their unusual observable properties may often be understood in terms of quantum anomalies. In particular, Weyl and Dirac…

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