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We review recent progress on the lattice simulations of the chiral magnetic effect. There are two different approaches to analyze the chiral magnetic effect on the lattice. In one approach, the charge density distribution or the current…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-05 Arata Yamamoto

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

The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description of plasmas with relativistic particles necessarily includes an additional new field, the chiral chemical potential associated with the axial charge (i.e., the number difference between right- and…

We describe a new type of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) that should occur in Weyl semimetals with an asymmetry in the dispersion relations of the left- and right-handed chiral Weyl fermions. In such materials, time-dependent pumping of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Dmitri Kharzeev , Yuta Kikuchi , Rene Meyer

We introduce a new mechanism for the chiral magnetic effect that does not require an initial chirality imbalance. The chiral magnetic current is generated by reconnections of magnetic flux that change the magnetic helicity of the system.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-24 Yuji Hirono , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Yi Yin

We theoretically investigate the Casimir effect originating from Dirac fields in finite-density matter under a magnetic field. In particular, we focus on quark fields in the magnetic dual chiral density wave (MDCDW) phase as a possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-01 Daisuke Fujii , Katsumasa Nakayama , Kei Suzuki

Topological charge changing transitions can induce chirality in the quark-gluon plasma by the axial anomaly. We study the equilibrium response of the quark-gluon plasma in such a situation to an external magnetic field. To mimic the effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenji Fukushima , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

The consistent chiral kinetic theory accurate to the second order in electromagnetic and pseudoelectromagnetic fields is derived for a relativistic matter with two Weyl fermions. By making use of such a framework, the properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-30 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

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

The hypothesis that the magnetic catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking is due to interactions of massless fermions in their lowest Landau level is examined in the context of chirally symmetric models with short ranged interactions. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 G. W. Semenoff , I. A. Shovkovy , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

We compute the damping rate of a fermion propagating in a chiral plasma when there is an imbalance between the densities of left- and right-handed fermions, after generalizing the hard thermal loop resummation techniques for these systems.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-13 Stefano Carignano , Cristina Manuel

Modulation of magnetization in magnetic Weyl semimetals leads to the shift of Weyl points in momentum space, which effectively serves as the chirality-dependent gauge field for the Weyl fermions. Here, we theoretically study such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 Akihiro Ozawa , Yasufumi Araki , Kentaro Nomura

Chiral functionalities exhibited by systems lacking any mirror symmetry encompass natural optical activity, magnetochiral effect, diagonal current-induced magnetization, chirality-selective spin-polarized current of charged electrons or…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-01 Sang-Wook Cheongand Fei-Ting Huang

We propose a novel mechanism of the Kondo effect driven by a chirality imbalance (or chiral chemical potential) of relativistic light fermions. This effect is realized by the mixing between a right- or left-handed fermion and a heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Daiki Suenaga , Kei Suzuki , Yasufumi Araki , Shigehiro Yasui

The chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect enables the detection of chirality as electrical charge signals. It is often studied using a two-terminal circuit geometry where a ferromagnet is connected to a chiral component, and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Xu Yang , Bart J. van Wees

We consider the energy dependence of the local ${\cal P}$ and ${\cal CP}$ violation in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions over a large energy range within a simple phenomenological model. It is expected that at LHC the chiral magnetic effect will…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 V. D. Toneev , V. Voronyuk

Chiral Magnetic Effect and Chiral Vortical Effect are parity odd transport phenomena originating from chiral anomaly, and have generalizations to all even dimensional space-time higher than four dimensions. We attempt to compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-24 Ho-Ung Yee

The chiral kinetic theory of Weyl fermions with collisions in the presence of weak electric and magnetic fields is derived from quantum field theories. It is found that the side-jump terms in the perturbative solution of Wigner functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-10 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang

By chiral effects one understands manifestations of chiral gauge anomaly and of gravitational chiral anomaly in hydrodynamics. In recent two-three years our understanding of the chiral effects has considerably changed. Here we present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-01 G. Yu. Prokhorov , O. V. Teryaev , V. I. Zakharov

Using direct numerical simulations (DNS), we study laminar and turbulent dynamos in chiral magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with an extended set of equations that accounts for an additional contribution to the electric current due to the chiral…