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We show that the scale (conformal) anomaly in field theories leads to new anomalous transport effects that emerge in an external electromagnetic field in an inhomogeneous gravitational background. In inflating geometry the QED scale anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-07 M. N. Chernodub

Within gauge/gravity duality, we study the class of four dimensional CFTs with chiral anomaly described by Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory in five dimensions. In particular we determine the phase diagram at finite temperature, chemical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-28 Martin Ammon , Julian Leiber , Rodrigo P. Macedo

We consider a holographic Einstein-Maxwell model in five dimensions with pure gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational Chern-Simons terms to study anomaly-induced transport in the presence of explicit symmetry breaking. We include the full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Ashis Tamang , Nishal Rai , Karl Landsteiner , Eugenio Megias

In this work, we explore macroscopic transport phenomena associated with a rotational system in the presence of an external orthogonal electromagnetic field. Simply based on the lowest Landau level approximation, we derive nontrivial…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Gaoqing Cao

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to the protection against Anderson localization, and at the same time to different types of transverse electromagnetic response -- the anomalous Hall, and chiral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

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

Chiral anomaly or Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in Weyl semimetals (WSMs) has a significant impact on the electron transport behaviors, leading to remarkable longitudinal or planar electrical and thermoelectric transport phenomena in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Chuanchang Zeng , Snehasish Nandy , Sumanta Tewari

We present a first attempt to derive the full (type-A and type-B) Weyl anomaly of four dimensional conformal higher spin (CHS) fields in a holographic way. We obtain the type-A and type-B Weyl anomaly coefficients for the whole family of 4D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 S. Acevedo , R. Aros , F. Bugini , D. E. Diaz

Chiral anomaly is a fundamental aspect of quantum theories with chiral fermions. How such microscopic anomaly manifests itself in a macroscopic many-body system with chiral fermions, is a highly nontrivial question that has recently…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Shuzhe Shi , Yin Jiang , Elias Lilleskov , Jinfeng Liao

We elaborate the quasiclassical approach to obtain the modified chiral magnetic effect in the case when massless charged fermions interact with electromagnetic fields and the background matter by the electroweak forces. The derivation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-16 Maxim Dvornikov , Victor B. Semikoz

The chiral magnetic and the chiral vortical effects are recently discovered phenomena arising from chiral gauge and gravitational anomalies that lead to generation of electric currents in presence of magnetic field or vorticity. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Umut Gursoy , Aron Jansen

The anomalous Hall, Nernst and thermal Hall coefficients of Fe$_{3-x}$GeTe$_2$ display several features upon cooling, like a reversal in the Nernst signal below $T = 50$ K pointing to a topological transition (TT) associated to the…

We study the collective excitations in a relativistic fluid with an anomalous $U(1)$ current. In $3+1$ dimensions at zero chemical potential, in addition to ordinary sound modes we find two propagating modes in presence of an external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-19 Navid Abbasi , Ali Davody , Kasra Hejazi , Zahra Rezaei

The effects of finite magnetization and electric polarization on dissipative and non-dissipative (anomalous) transport coefficients of a chiral fluid are studied. First, using the second law of thermodynamics as well as Onsager's time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-28 N. Sadooghi , S. M. A. Tabatabaee

We have considered the problem of the influence of inhomogeneity of gravitational field on transport effects predicted by the field theory describing massless Dirac fermions in the Maxwell and dark matter background. As a model of dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokinski

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

The chirality induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect is a fascinating phenomena correlating molecular structure with electron spin-polarisation in excited state measurements. Experimental procedures to quantify the spin-filtering magnitude…

We discuss the effect of strong electromagnetic fields on chiral orientation in the framework of the linear $\sigma$ model. Based on lessons we learn from computation of the effective potential at one loop, we argue that the chiral U(1)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Hisakazu Minakata , Berndt Muller

Finding signatures of dark matter in transport characteristics of solids would be an important step on the road to detect this illusive component of the mass of our Universe. This is especially important and timely as the experiments…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokinski

We study the holographic flow of anomalous conductivities induced by gauge and gravitational Chern-Simons terms. We find that the contribution from the gauge Chern-Simons term gives rise to a flow that can be interpreted in terms of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Karl Landsteiner , Luis Melgar