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We analyze the chiral magnetic effect in a homogeneous neutral plasma from the point of view of energy conservation, and construct an effective potential for the growth of maximally helical perturbations of the electromagnetic field. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-19 David B. Kaplan , Sanjay Reddy , Srimoyee Sen

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to a predicted phenomena in quantum chromodynamics that manifests as a charge separation along an external magnetic field, driven by an imbalance of quark chirality. Searches for the CME has been…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-03-18 Wei Li , Qiye Shou , Fuqiang Wang

In this work we derive sum rules for orbital angular momentum(OAM) resolved electron magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD) which enable the evaluation of the strength of spin and orbital components of the atomic magnetic moments in a crystalline…

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 macroscopic transport effect resulting from the chiral anomaly. We review the recent progress in theoretical understanding the properties of chiral plasmas, in which the CME and other anomaly-induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuji Hirono

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a quantum relativistic effect that describes the appearance of an additional electric current along a magnetic field. It is caused by an asymmetry between the number densities of left- and right-handed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-12-16 Jennifer Schober , Axel Brandenburg , Igor Rogachevskii

Structural symmetry breaking in magnetic materials is responsible for a variety of outstanding physical phenomena. Examples range from the existence of multiferroics, to current induced spin orbit torques (SOT) and the formation of…

Dirac and Weyl semimetals form an ideal platform for testing ideas developed in high energy physics to describe massless relativistic particles. One such quintessentially field-theoretic idea of chiral anomaly already resulted in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 D. I. Pikulin , Anffany Chen , M. Franz

The chiral magnetic effect in a strong magnetic field can be described using the chiral anomaly in the $(1+1)$-dimensional massive Schwinger model with a time-dependent $\theta$-term. We perform a digital quantum simulation of the model at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Yuta Kikuchi

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

We study the chiral electric separation effect (CESE) in Weyl semimetals (WSM). Within the model based on the kinetic equation we show that there is a non-zero chirality current in external electric and magnetic fields. We distinguish…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Vladimir A. Zyuzin

The microscopic quantum nature of elementary particles, chirality, leads to macroscopic phenomena like the chiral anomaly, chiral magnetic effect, and chiral plasma instability. We review recent progress of the studies of these chiral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-22 Kohei Kamada , Naoki Yamamoto , Di-Lun Yang

We derive the generalized chiral kinetic equations which are applicable to the fermions with arbitrary mass. We show how the dynamical magnetic-moment distribution function could lead to spin polarization and electric charge separation. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-16 Shu-Xiang Ma , Jian-Hua Gao

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 propose a mechanism to generate dissipationless current in time reversal symmetry breaking Weyl semimetals through the anomalous chiral magnetic effect (ACME). The ACME current is induced by chiral imbalance and flows along the direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Long Liang

We simulate Lattice QED in a constant external magnetic field using the RHMC algorithm. We seek evidence for chiral symmetry breaking predicted by truncated Schwinger-Dyson methods. Since the predicted values of the dynamical electron mass…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-10-21 D. K. Sinclair , J. B. Kogut

For systems with charged chiral fermions, the imbalance of chirality in the presence of magnetic field generates an electric current - this is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). We study the dynamical real-time evolution of electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-29 Yuji Hirono , Dmitri Kharzeev , Yi Yin

Many-body systems with chiral fermions exhibit anomalous transport phenomena originated from quantum anomalies. Based on quantum field theory, we derive the kinetic theory for chiral fermions interacting with an external electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Yu-Chen Liu , Lan-Lan Gao , Kazuya Mameda , Xu-Guang Huang

We study the impact of a non-uniform magnetic background field on the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in equilibrium QCD using lattice simulations with 2+1 flavors of dynamical staggered quarks at the physical point. We show that in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-09-17 B. B. Brandt , G. Endrődi , E. Garnacho-Velasco , G. Markó , A. D. M. Valois

The chiral magnetic and vortical effects denote the generation of dissipationless currents due to magnetic fields or rotation. They can be studied in holographic models with Chern-Simons couplings dual to anomalies in field theory. We study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-20 Christian Copetti , Jorge Fernández-Pendás , Karl Landsteiner , Eugenio Megías