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The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a collective quantum phenomenon that arises from the interplay between gauge field topology and fermion chiral anomaly, encompassing a wide range of physical systems from semimetals to quark-gluon plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Prithwish Tribedy

In this paper, we shall address some field theoretic issues regarding the chiral magnetic effect. The general structure of the magnetic current consistent with the electromagnetic gauge invariance is obtained and the impact of the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 Defu Hou , Hui Liu , Hai-cang Ren

We give a numerical simulation of the generation of the magnetic field and the charge-separation signal due to the chiral magnetic effect (CME) --- the induction of an electric current by the magnetic field in a parity-odd matter --- in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Xu-Guang Huang , Wei-Tian Deng , Guo-Liang Ma , Gang Wang

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a remarkable phenomenon that stems from highly nontrivial interplay of QCD chiral symmetry, axial anomaly, and gluonic topology. It is of fundamental importance to search for the CME in experiments. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Jinfeng Liao

We study the influence of boundaries on chiral effects in hot dense relativistic spinor matter in a strong magnetic field which is orthogonal to the boundaries. The most general set of boundary conditions ensuring the confinement of matter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-30 Yu. A. Sitenko

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

We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions. We present updated experimental results for the chiral magnetic effect and related…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-05 Jian-Hua Gao , Guo-Liang Ma , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

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

Chirality is a ubiquitous concept in modern science, from particle physics to biology. In quantum physics, chirality of fermions is linked to topology of gauge fields by the chiral anomaly. While the chiral anomaly is usually associated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

We study the influence of the chiral phase transition on the chiral magnetic effect. The chiral electric current density along the magnetic field, the electric charge difference between on each side of the reaction plane, and the azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Wei-jie Fu , Yu-xin Liu , Yue-liang Wu

We argue that the presence of a very strong magnetic field in the chirally broken phase induces inhomogeneous expectation values, of a spiral nature along the magnetic field axis, for the currents of charge and chirality, when there is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

The chiral plasmon modes of relativistic matter in background magnetic and strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields are studied in detail using the consistent chiral kinetic theory. The results reveal a number of anomalous features of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

We present holographic computations of the time-dependent chiral magnetic conductivity in the framework of gauge/gravity correspondence. Chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current parallel to an applied magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Ho-Ung Yee

We show that a hot rotating fluid of relativistic chiral fermions possesses a new gapless collective mode associated with coherent propagation of energy density and chiral density waves along the axis of rotation. This mode, which we call…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 M. N. Chernodub

We demonstrate that in a chiral plasma subject to an external magnetic field, the chiral vortical effect can induce a new type of magnetohydrodynamic instability which we refer to as the {\it chiral magnetovortical instability}. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-07-14 Shuai Wang , Xu-Guang Huang

The (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly is used to obtain a quantitative description of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions. We find that the charge-dependent hadron azimuthal correlations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-28 Yuji Hirono , Tetsufumi Hirano , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

We give an elementary derivation of the chiral magnetic effect based on a strong magnetic field lowest-Landau-level projection in conjunction with the well-known axial anomalies in two- and four-dimensional space-time. The argument is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-26 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne

The experimental status is reviewed on the search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Emphasis is put on background contributions to the CME-sensitive charge correlation measurements and their effects…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-07-26 Fuqiang Wang

A number of recent progresses in the study of strong field effects in heavy ion collisions are discussed here: 1) the Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) and its experimental manifestation via splitting of positive/negative pions' elliptic flow; 2)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-24 Jinfeng Liao

The chiral magnetic effect is a novel quantum phenomenon proposed for high-energy nuclear collisions but which has yet to be observed. We quantify the axial charge relaxation time, due to sphalerons, which enters in simulations of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-08 Joseph I. Kapusta , Ermal Rrapaj , Serge Rudaz