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The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to generation of the electric current along a magnetic field in a chirally imbalanced system of quarks. The latter is predicted by quantum chromodynamics to arise from quark interaction with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-22 Yicheng Feng , Sergei A. Voloshin , Fuqiang Wang

The field of topological materials science has recently been focussing on three-dimensional Dirac semimetals, which exhibit robust Dirac phases in the bulk. However, the absence of characteristic surface states in accidental Dirac…

We outline a novel chiral kinetic theory framework for systematic computations of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The real part of the fermion determinant in the QCD effective action is expressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Niklas Mueller , Raju Venugopalan

Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is the macroscopic manifestation of the fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as anomalous transport current in hydrodynamic framework. Experimental observation of CME…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-20 Shuzhe Shi , Yin Jiang , Elias Lilleskov , Jinfeng Liao

We study the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in tilted multi-Weyl Semimetals (WSM) employing a two-band lattice model. We focus on the type-II phase of mWSMs, introduced by incorporating a Lorentz symmetry violating tilt term. We add to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Anirudha Menon , Souvik Chattopadhay , Banasri Basu

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) refers to a charge separation (an electric current) of chirality imbalanced quarks generated along an external strong magnetic field. The chirality imbalance results from…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-06-28 Jie Zhao , Fuqiang Wang

The interplay between the chiral anomaly and the strong magnetic or vortical fields created in noncentral heavy-ion collisions can lead to various anomalous chiral effects in the quark--gluon plasma, including the chiral magnetic effect…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-12-13 Chun-Zheng Wang

Gribov viewed the axial anomaly as a manifestation of the collective motion of charged fermions with arbitrarily high momenta in the vacuum. In the presence of an external magnetic field and a chirality imbalance, this collective motion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

In this paper we investigate the chiral magnetic effect (CME): the generation of an electric current due to a homogeneous background magnetic field and a homogeneous chiral imbalance in QCD. We demonstrate that the leading coefficient…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-10-17 Bastian B. Brandt , Gergely Endrődi , Eduardo Garnacho-Velasco , Gergely Markó

Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are topological quantum states wherein the electronic bands linearly disperse around pairs of nodes, the Weyl points, of fixed (left or right) chirality. The recent discovery of WSM materials triggered an experimental…

We realized highly tunable Weyl semimetal-bands and subsequently emulated the topological chiral magnetic effects in superconducting quantum circuits. Driving the superconducting quantum circuits with elaborately designed microwave fields,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Xinsheng Tan , Yuxin Zhao , Qiang Liu , Guangming Xue , Haifeng Yu , Zidan Wang , Yang Yu

Propagating chiral magnetic waves (CMW) are expected to exist in chiral plasmas due to the interplay between the chiral magnetic and chiral separation effects induced by the presence of a chiral anomaly. Unfortunately, it was pointed out…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-02 Yongjun Ahn , Matteo Baggioli , Yan Liu , Xin-Meng Wu

The Dirac and Weyl semimetals are unusual materials in which the nodes of the bulk states are protected against gap formation by crystalline symmetry. The chiral anomaly~\cite{Adler,Bell}, predicted to occur in both systems, was recently…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-19 Max Hirschberger , Satya Kushwaha , Zhijun Wang , Quinn Gibson , Carina A. Belvin , B. A. Bernevig , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

The chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current is generated along a magnetic field. Recently, in nonequilibrium systems, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance has been observed experimentally in Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yohei Ibe , Hiroaki Sumiyoshi

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) -- a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum chiral anomaly -- induces currents along magnetic field lines, facilitating mutual conversion between chiral asymmetry and magnetic helicity. Although the finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

We study electric field and temperature gradient driven magnetoconductivity of a Weyl semimetal system. To analyze the responses, we utilize the kinetic equation with semiclassical equations of motion modified by the Berry curvature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

Weyl semimetals are predicted to realize the three-dimensional axial anomaly first discussed in particle physics. The anomaly leads to unusual transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic effect in which an applied magnetic field induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Edwin Barnes , J. J. Heremans , Djordje Minic

Weyl semimetal may be thought of as a gapless topological phase protected by the chiral anomaly, where the symmetries involved in the anomaly are the $U(1)$ charge conservation and the crystal translational symmetry. The absence of a band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-09 Chong Wang , L. Gioia , A. A. Burkov

Quantum anomaly is a fundamental feature of chiral fermions. In chiral materials the microscopic anomaly leads to nontrivial macroscopic transport processes such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), which has been in the spotlight lately…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-29 Shuzhe Shi , Hui Zhang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao

The low-energy quasiparticles of Weyl semimetals are a condensed-matter realization of the Weyl fermions introduced in relativistic field theory. Chiral anomaly, the nonconservation of the chiral charge under parallel electric and magnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-29 Pilkwang Kim , Ji Hoon Ryoo , Cheol-Hwan Park