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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

Despite extensive research on chirality-driven spin selectivity, most studies have focused on static magnetic properties, while the influence of chirality on the dynamic magnetic response remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate how…

We calculate the electron self-energy in a magnetized QED plasma to the leading perturbative order in the coupling constant and to the linear order in an external magnetic field. We find that the chiral asymmetry of the normal ground state…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-31 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , Xinyang Wang

Chiral oscillation as well as spin flipping effects correspond to quantum phenomena of fundamental importance in the context of particle physics and, in particular, of neutrino physics. From the point of view of first quantized theories, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-07 Alex E. Bernardini

We study the excitation of the electric current of chiral fermions along the external magnetic field, known as the chiral magnetic effect, in the presence of the background axial-vector field. The calculation of the current is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Maxim Dvornikov

Chiral symmetries in field theory are typically affected by an anomaly in the quantum theory. This anomaly emerges when one introduces an interaction with a Yang-Mills or gravitational background. Physical applications of this quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Adrian del Rio

Chiral-Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) describes the emergence of spin-polarized electron transport in chiral systems without magnetic fields, a remarkable effect in light-element materials with weak intrinsic spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

The effects of an external field on the dynamics of chiral symmetry breaking are studied using quenched, ladder QED as our model gauge field theory. It is found that a uniform external magnetic field enables the chiral symmetry to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 C. N. Leung

We present a first-principle study of anomaly induced transport phenomena by performing real-time lattice simulations with dynamical fermions coupled simultaneously to non-Abelian $SU(N_c)$ and Abelian $U(1)$ gauge fields. Investigating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Niklas Mueller , Sören Schlichting , Sayantan Sharma

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 chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electric current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-21 Qiang Li , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Cheng Zhang , Yuan Huang , I. Pletikosic , A. V. Fedorov , R. D. Zhong , J. A. Schneeloch , G. D. Gu , T. Valla

In order to advance our understanding of the dynamic interactions between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and the magnetized solar wind, we investigate the impact of magnetic erosion on the well-known aerodynamic drag force acting on CMEs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-25 Sotiris Stamkos , Spiros Patsourakos , Angelos Vourlidas , Ioannis A. Daglis

We perform a first lattice QCD simulation including two-flavor dynamical fermion with a chiral chemical potential. Because the chiral chemical potential gives rise to no sign problem, we can exactly analyze a chirally imbalanced QCD matter…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-18 Arata Yamamoto

This is a PhD dissertation. Ignited by the chiral anomaly of recently discovered Weyl (semi-)metals, we study the chiral magnetic effect and the natural optical activity of noncentrosymmetric metals. Both phenomena are related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Jing Ma

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

In this paper the emergence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the related anomalous current is investigated using the real time Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. This method is widely used for describing strong field physics and QED…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-14 Dániel Berényi , Péter Lévai

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

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Yin Jiang , Shuzhe Shi , Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

Chirality-induced orbital-angular-momentum selectivity (CIOAMS) in electron transmission and scattering processes is investigated. Polarization of the OAM of an electron traversing chiral media is first studied via electronic wavepacket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yun Chen , Oded Hod , Joel Gersten , Abraham Nitzan

We study the electrodynamics of a chiral medium with electric and magnetic charges using the effective Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory extended to include the magnetic current. The exchange of helicity between the chiral medium and the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-12 Yang Li , Kirill Tuchin

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, a phenomenon where the chirality of molecules imparts significant spin selectivity to electron transfer processes, has garnered increasing interest among the chemistry, biology, and physics…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Tian-Yi Zhang , Yue Mao , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun