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Chiral anomalous effects in relativistic plasmas are reviewed. The essence of chiral separation and chiral magnetic effects is explained in simple terms. Qualitative differences between the two phenomena, both of which are triggered by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

Given the intrinsic nonequilibrium nature of high-energy collisions the investigation of the dynamical properties of transport phenomena is important. The study of the real-time behavior of various conductivities and susceptibilities help…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Miklos Horvath , Defu Hou , Hai-cang Ren

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, whereby chiral molecules preferentially transmit electrons of one spin orientation, remains one of the most intriguing and debated phenomena at the interface of spintronics, molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Subhajit Sarkar , Amos Sharoni , Oliver L. A. Monti , Yonatan Dubi

We study the dynamics of skyrmions in a metallic chiral magnet. First we show that skyrmions can be created dynamically by destabilizing the ferromagnetic background state through a spin polarized current. We then treat skyrmions as rigid…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-14 Shi-Zeng Lin , Charles Reichhardt , Cristian D. Batista , Avadh Saxena

The exponential amplification of initial seed magnetic fields in relativistic plasmas is a very important topic in astrophysics, from the conditions in the early Universe to the interior of neutron stars. While dynamo action in a turbulent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-04 Luca Del Zanna , Niccolò Bucciatini

The interplay of quantum anomalies with magnetic field and vorticity results in a variety of novel non-dissipative transport phenomena in systems with chiral fermions, including the quark-gluon plasma. Among them is the Chiral Magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 D. E. Kharzeev , J. Liao , S. A. Voloshin , G. Wang

In the presence of cosmic chiral asymmetry, chiral-vorticity and chiral-magnetic effects can play an important role in the generation and evolution of magnetic fields in the early universe. We include these chiral effects in the magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hiroyuki Tashiro , Tanmay Vachaspati , Alexander Vilenkin

The quantum chiral anomaly enables a nearly dissipationless current in the presence of chirality imbalance and magnetic field -- this is the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME), observed recently in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Here we propose to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Qiang Li

We discuss scalar mesons properties on the light of chiral dynamics. Considering them as the chiral partners of pseudo-scalar mesons we propose an explanation to their unusual properties based on non-trivial vacuum effects coming from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Mauro Napsuciale

Recently, chiral anomaly (CA) has been proposed to occur in spin-orbit coupled noncentrosymmetric metals (SOC-NCMs), motivating CA to be a Fermi surface property rather than a Weyl node property. Although the nature of the anomaly is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Gautham Varma K , Azaz Ahmad , Sumanta Tewari , G. Sharma

Chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a macroscopic transport phenomenon induced by quantum anomaly in the presence of chiral imbalance and an external magnetic field. Relativistic heavy ion collisions provide the unique opportunity to look for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Shuzhe Shi

Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a phenomenon in which electric charge is separated by a strong magnetic field from local domains of chirality imbalance in quantum chromodynamics. The CME-sensitive, azimuthal correlator difference…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-05 Han-Sheng Li , Yicheng Feng , Fuqiang Wang

We present a derivation of the orbital and spin sum rules for magnetic circular dichroic spectra measured by electron energy loss spectroscopy in a transmission electron microscope. These sum rules are obtained from the differential cross…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Calmels , F. Houdellier , B. Warot-Fonrose , C. Gatel , M. J. Hÿtch , V. Serin , E. Snoeck , P. Schattschneider

Weyl semimetals realize massless relativistic fermions with two Weyl nodes separated in energy and momentum space, whose low-energy physics is described by Dirac fermions with an axial gauge constant. Here, we study their electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Tatsuya Amitani , Yusuke Nishida

Recently it was demonstrated (Schattschneider et al., Nature 441 (2006), 486), that an analogue of the X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) experiment can be performed with the transmission electron microscope (TEM). The new phenomenon…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Jan Rusz , Stefano Rubino , Peter Schattschneider

We review derivations of the chiral magnetic effect (ChME) in hydrodynamic approximation. The reader is assumed to be familiar with the basics of the effect. The main challenge now is to account for the strong interactions between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Valentin I. Zakharov

The essence of the chiral magnetic effect is generation of an electric current along an external magnetic field. Recently it has been studied by Rebhan et al. within the Sakai--Sugimoto model, where it was shown to be zero. As an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-15 A. Gorsky , P. N. Kopnin , A. V. Zayakin

Quantum anomalies are one of the subtlest properties of relativistic field theories. They give rise to non-dissipative transport coefficients in the hydrodynamic expansion. In particular a magnetic field can induce an anomalous current via…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Eugenio Megias

We use the non-perturbative gauge field approach to study the effects of spin orbit coupling on the dynamic of magnetic moment. We present a general equation of motion (EOM) which unifies i) the spin orbit coupling effect derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-25 S. G. Tan , M. B. A. Jalil , Xiong-Jun Liu

By making use of the chiral kinetic theory in the relaxation-time approximation, we derive an Israel-Stewart type formulation of the hydrodynamic equations for a chiral relativistic plasma made of neutral particles (e.g., neutrinos). The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 E. V. Gorbar , D. O. Rybalka , I. A. Shovkovy