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Chirality induced by rolling a two-dimensional material into a spiral geometry reshapes its electronic band structure. In this work, we theoretically investigate the topological properties of carbon nanoscrolls under an axial magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-03 Tzu-Ching Hsu , Jhih-Shih You , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu , Ion Cosma Fulga

Negative magnetoresistance in Dirac semimetals is conventionally considered as a manifestation of chiral magnetic effect (CME), by means of a postulated Chiral Kinetic equation. In this paper we study magnetoconductivity in large Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Ruslan A. Abramchuk

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 utilize the chiral kinetic theory in a relaxation-time approximation to investigate the nonlinear anomalous responses of chiral fluids with viscous effects. Unlike the cases in equilibrium, it is found that the chiral magnetic effect and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Di-Lun Yang

We investigate the real-time dynamics of the chiral magnetic effect in quantum electrodynamics (QED) and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We consider a field configuration of parallel (chromo)electric and (chromo)magnetic fields with a weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Harmen J. Warringa

In Weyl semimetals subjected to torsion, there are two different kinds of chirality: i) the (coordinate-space) shape of the twisted crystal is chiral, and ii) the momentum space contains chiral quasi-particles. Here we construct a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Lan-Lan Gao , Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

We proceed with the construction of normalizable Dirac wave packets for treating chiral oscillations in the presence of an external magnetic field. Both chirality and helicity quantum numbers correspond to variables of fundamental…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

The chiral anomaly is a purely quantum mechanical phenomenon that has a long history dating back to the late 1960s. Surprisingly, it has recently made a macroscopic appearance in condensed matter physics. A brief introduction to the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Gerald E. Marsh

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the phenomenon of electric charge separation along the external magnetic field that is induced by the chirality imbalance. The CME is a macroscopic quantum effect - it is a manifestation of the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-05 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

We analyze the chiral transport terms in relativistic superfluid hydrodynamics. In addition to the spontaneously broken symmetry current, we consider an arbitrary number of unbroken symmetries and extend the results of arXiv:1105.3733. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-12 Yasha Neiman , Yaron Oz

We investigate novel transport phenomena in a chiral fluid originated from an interplay between a vorticity and strong magnetic field, which induces a redistribution of vector charges in the system and an axial current along the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Koichi Hattori , Yi Yin

The nonlinear transport features of inhomogeneous chiral plasma in the presence of electromagnetic fields, in rotating coordinates are studied within the relaxation time approach. The chiral distribution functions up to second order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-30 Omer F. Dayi , Eda Kilincarslan

It is revealed that in dense relativistic matter in a magnetic field, there exists a contribution to the axial current associated with a relative shift of the longitudinal momenta in the dispersion relations of opposite chirality fermions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy

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

We present a theory of magnetotransport phenomena related to the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals. We show that conductivity, thermal conductivity, thermoelectric and the sound absorption coefficients exhibit strong and anisotropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 B. Z. Spivak , A. V. Andreev

Circularly polarized light (CPL) can induce an asymmetry between the number of left- and right-handed chiral quasiparticles in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. We show that if the photoresponse of the material is dominated by chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Sahal Kaushik , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Evan John Philip

The chiral anomaly is based on a non-conserved chiral charge and can happen in Dirac fermion systems under the influence of external electromagnetic fields. In this case, the spectral flow leads to a transfer of right- to left-moving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Christoph Fleckenstein , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Björn Trauzettel

We calculate the electron self-energy in a magnetized QED plasma to the leading perturbative order in the coupling constant and to the linear order in an external magnetic field. We find that the chiral asymmetry of the normal ground state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-31 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , Xinyang Wang

A systematic study of chiral effects is presented using an Effective Field Theory framework. By integrating out a massive Dirac fermion at finite temperature in presence of vector and axial background fields, the currents and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Rémy Larue , Amaury Marchon , Jérémie Quevillon , Diego Saviot

We report on a mean-field study of spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry for Dirac fermions with contact interactions in the presence of chiral imbalance, which is modelled by nonzero chiral chemical potential. We point out that chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-22 P. V. Buividovich