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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

Multi-Weyl semimetals are a kind of topological phase of matter with discrete Weyl nodes characterized by multiple monopole charges, in which the chiral anomaly, the anomalous nonconservation of an axial current, occurs in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ze-Min Huang , Jianhui Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

We study the transport properties of relativistic fluids induced by quantum anomalies in presence of explicit symmetry breaking. To this end we consider a holographic Einstein-Maxwell model in 5 dimensions with pure gauge and a mixed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Ashis Tamang , Nishal Rai , Karl Landsteiner , Eugenio Megias

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

In 3+1 dimensional spacetime, two vector gauge anomalies are known: The chiral anomaly and the mixed axial-gravitational anomaly. While the former is well documented and tied to the presence of a magnetic field, the latter instead requires…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Tobias Holder , Daniel Kaplan , Roni Ilan , Binghai Yan

The nonlinear Hall effect is an unconventional response, in which a voltage can be driven by two perpendicular currents in the Hall-bar measurement. Unprecedented in the family of the Hall effects, it can survive time-reversal symmetry but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Z. Z. Du , C. M. Wang , Hai-Peng Sun , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

Chiral fluids, for which the mobility tensor has antisymmetric, off-diagonal components, exhibit transport phenomena absent in conventional systems, including interaction-enhanced diffusion and negative mobility. While these effects have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-23 Filippo Faedi , Erik Kalz , Ralf Metzler , Abhinav Sharma

Nonlinear Hall effect arises in materials without inversion symmetry, and the intrinsic contribution is typically from Berry curvature dipole of non-universal Fermi pockets. Here we propose that nonlinear Hall effect can reach quantization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-12 Nikolai Peshcherenko , Claudia Felser , Yang Zhang

We compute, in the framework of the fluid/gravity correspondence, the transport coefficients of a relativistic fluid affected by chiral and gauge-gravitational anomalies, including external electromagnetic fields. The computation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Eugenio Megias , Francisco Pena-Benitez

The chiral magnetic effect is a one of the exotic bulk transport properties of the Weyl semimetals. Because of the Nielsen-Ninomiya "no-go theorem", the total chiral magnetic current is absent in the equilibrium state. One of the mechanisms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-01-08 Zaur Z. Alisultanov

The transport properties of massless fermions in $3+1$ spacetime dimension have been in the focus of recent theoretical and experimental research. New transport properties appear as consequences of chiral anomalies. The most prominent is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu

Chiral anomaly and the novel quantum phenomena it induces have been widely studied for Dirac and Weyl fermions. In most typical cases, the Lorentz covariance is assumed and thus the linear dispersion relations are maintained. However, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Lan-Lan Gao , Xu-Guang Huang

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 revisit the relation between black hole geometries and chiral transport. Integrating the anomaly equation in a black hole geometry allows to derive the chiral transport coefficients for the thermal gas far from the horizon. The key…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Karl Landsteiner , Sergio Morales-Tejera , Pablo Saura-Bastida

In a system of two-dimensional electrons, a combination of broken symmetry, interactions, and nontrivial topology can conspire to give rise to a nonlinear transport regime, where electric current density scales as the square of electric…

The condensed-matter version of the chiral anomaly describes how electrons are pumped from a Weyl node with negative chirality to a Weyl node with positive chirality using parallel electric and magnetic fields. Key experimental signatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Yongjian Wang , Alexander Wowchik , Thomas Boemerich , A. A. Taskin , Achim Rosch , Yoichi Ando

Nonlinear transport phenomena in condensed matter reflect the geometric nature, quantum coherence, and many-body correlation of electronic states. Electric currents in solids are classified into (i) Ohmic current, (ii) supercurrent, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

We study the transport properties of a relativistic fluid affected by chiral and gauge-gravitational anomalies. The computation is performed in the framework of the fluid/gravity correspondence for a 5 dim holographic model with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Eugenio Megias , Francisco Pena-Benitez

Recent studies have shown that chiral anomaly is not limited to Weyl semimetals (WSMs), but are also shown by a larger class of materials called spin orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals (SOC-NCMs),which has shed more insight into the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Gautham Varma K , Mohd. Hashim Raza , Azaz Ahmad

We propose a scheme to correctly incorporate the contribution of the chiral anomaly in the D3/D7 model to calculate chiral transport phenomena. To ensure the D7-brane wraps S^5 appropriately and the Wess-Zumino term is switched on, we allow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-26 Shin Nakamura , Kensei Tanaka