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The transport of slightly deformable chiral objects in a uniform shear flow is investigated. Depending on the equilibrium configuration one finds up to four different asymptotic states that can be distinguished by a lateral drift velocity…

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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,…

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For a spin-1/2 particle moving in a background magnetic field in noncommutative phase space, Dirac equation is solved when the particle is allowed to move off the plane that the magnetic field is perpendicular to. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Mai-Lin Liang , Ya-Bin Zhang , Rui-Lin Yang , Fu-Lin Zhang

The paper analyzes time propagation of Dirac observables - using Heisenberg representation - in the light of various pseudodifferential operator algebras (cf. [Co3], [Co15], [Co16]). Our theory gives (i) a mechanical angular momentum (the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-04 H. O. Cordes

Charge and spin dynamics is addressed in chiral molecules immediately after the instantaneous coupling to an external metallic reservoir. It is shown how a spin-polarization is induced in the chiral structure as a response to the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-08 J. Fransson

We consider quantum rings realized in materials where the dynamics of charge carriers mimics that of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electrons. A general theoretical description of the ring-subband structure is developed that applies to a range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 L. Gioia , U. Zülicke , M. Governale , R. Winkler

Electron transmission through chiral molecules induced by circularly polarized light can be very different for mirror-image structures, a peculiar fact given that the electronic energy spectra of the systems are identical. We propose that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Spiros S. Skourtis , David N. Beratan , Ron Naaman , Abraham Nitzan , David H. Waldeck

Many-body systems with chiral fermions can exhibit novel transport phenomena that violate parity and time reversal symmetries, such as the chiral magnetic effect, the anomalous Hall effect, and the anomalous generation of charge. Based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Zebin Qiu , Gaoqing Cao , Xu-Guang Huang

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-22 Gabriele Inghirami , Mark Mace , Yuji Hirono , Luca Del Zanna , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Marcus Bleicher

We present a unified derivation of the dynamical correlation functions including density-density, density-current and current-current, of three-dimensional Weyl/Dirac semimetals by use of the Passarino-Veltman reduction scheme at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Jianhui Zhou , Hao-Ran Chang

It has recently been realized that the first-order moment of the Berry curvature, namely the Berry curvature dipole (BCD) can give rise to non-linear current in a wide variety of time-reversal invariant and non-centrosymmetric materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-31 Sai Satyam Samal , S. Nandy , Kush Saha

It has recently been found that Dirac and Weyl metals are characterized by an unusual weak-field longitudinal magnetoresistance: large, negative, and quadratic in the magnetic field. This has been shown to arise from chiral anomaly, i.e.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 A. A. Burkov

Recently, a class of Dirac semimetals, such as \textrm{Na}$_{\mathrm{3}}% $\textrm{Bi} and \textrm{Cd}$_{\mathrm{2}}$\textrm{As}$_{\mathrm{3}}$, are discovered to carry $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$ monopole charges. We present an experimental mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Ming-Xun Deng , Yan-Yan Yang , Wei Luo , R. Ma , Rui-Qiang Wang , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Close to the Fermi energy, nodal loop semimetals have a torus-shaped, strongly anisotropic Fermi surface which affects their transport properties. Here we investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of nodal loop semimetals by going beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Zoltán Okvátovity , László Oroszlány , Balázs Dóra

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using quarks and antiquarks from a multiphase transport model as initial conditions, we study the chiral magnetic effect, i.e., the magnetic field induced separation of charged particles in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

We consider the system of relativistic rotating fermions in the presence of rotation. The rotation is set up as an enhancement of the angular momentum. In this approach the angular velocity for the angular momentum plays the same role as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Ruslan Abramchuk , Z. V. Khaidukov , M. A. Zubkov

Chirality transfer between fermions and gauge fields plays a crucial role for understanding the dynamics of anomalous transport phenomena such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect. In this proceeding we present a first principles study of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 M. Mace , N. Mueller , S. Schlichting , S. Sharma

Reporting about the formalism with the Dirac equation we describe the dynamics of chiral oscillations for a fermionic particle non-minimally coupling with an external magnetic field. For massive particles, the chirality and helicity quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini , Marcelo M. Guzzo

Changes in the magnetic moment of an electron near a dielectric or conducting surface due to boundary-dependent radiative corrections are investigated. The electromagnetic field is quantized by normal mode expansion for a non-dispersive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Robert Bennett , Claudia Eberlein

We study the dynamics of the chiral phase transition in a linear quark-meson $\sigma$ model using a novel approach based on semiclassical wave-particle duality. The quarks are treated as test particles in a Monte-Carlo simulation of elastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-20 C. Wesp , H. van Hees , A. Meistrenko , C. Greiner