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We introduce the concept of a photonic Dirac monopole, appropriate for photonic crystals, metamaterials and 2D materials, by utilizing the Dirac-Maxwell correspondence. We start by exploring vacuum where the reciprocal momentum space of…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-12 Todd Van Mechelen , Zubin Jacob

We study chiral symmetry breaking in QED when a uniform external magnetic field is present. We calculate higher order corrections to the dynamically generated fermion mass and find them to be small. In so doing we correct an error in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Jasinski , C. N. Leung

QCD monopoles are magnetically charged quasiparticles whose Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) at $T<T_c$ creates electric confinement and flux tubes. The "magnetic scenario" of QCD proposes that scattering on the non-condensed component of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Adith Ramamurti , Edward Shuryak

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

Dirac-like monopoles are studied in three-dimensional Abelian Maxwell and Maxwell-Chern-Simons models. Their scalar nature is highlighted and discussed through a dimensional reduction of four-dimensional electrodynamics with electric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 E. M. C. Abreu , J. A. Helayel-Neto , M. Hott , W. A. Moura-Melo

The infra-red properties of three-dimensional abelian lattice gauge theory are known to be governed by a neutral plasma of magnetic monopole excitations. We address the fate of these monopoles in the presence of light dynamical fermions,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Hands , John B. Kogut , Biagio Lucini

The violation of the Bell inequality for Dirac fermions is investigated in the cosmological de Sitter spacetime, in the presence of background electromagnetic fields of constant strengths. The orthonormal Dirac mode functions are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-16 Md Sabir Ali , Sourav Bhattacharya , Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Shagun Kaushal

We report on a mean-field study of spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry for Dirac fermions with contact interactions in the presence of chiral imbalance, which is modelled by nonzero chiral chemical potential. We point out that chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-22 P. V. Buividovich

We study the nature of the chiral transition for an effective theory with spontaneous breaking of symmetry, where charged bosons and fermions are subject to the effects of a constant external magnetic field. The problem is studied in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 Alejandro Ayala , Luis Alberto Hernandez , Ana Julia Mizher , Juan Cristobal Rojas , Cristian Villavicencio

The fermion self-energy is calculated for a cold QED plasma with chiral chemical potential in a magnetic field. It is found that a momentum shift parameter dynamically generated in such a plasma leads to a modification of the chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 D. O. Rybalka

We study the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent hot plasma of the early Universe accounting for the chiral magnetic effect. The magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is modeled by replacing the matter velocity in the advection term in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Maxim Dvornikov

The magnetic toroidal monopole, a time-reversal-odd scalar, has attracted attention through its characteristic responses, such as electric-field-induced nonreciprocal directional dichroism observed in Co$_2$SiO$_4$. However, its evaluation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-08 Taisei Yamanaka , Takumi Sato , Satoru Hayami

We elucidate the fate of classical symmetries which suffer from abelian Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomalies. Instead of being completely destroyed, these symmetries survive as non-invertible topological global symmetry defects with worldvolume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-04 Clay Cordova , Kantaro Ohmori

We study fermion mass correction to chiral kinetic equations in electromagnetic fields. Different from the chiral limit where fermion number density is the only independent distribution, the number and spin densities are coupled to each…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Ziyue Wang , Xingyu Guo , Shuzhe Shi , Pengfei Zhuang

We study fermion mass correction to chiral kinetic equations in electromagnetic fields. Different from the chiral limit where fermion number density is the only independent distribution, the number and spin densities are coupled to each…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Ziyue Wang , Xingyu Guo , Shuzhe Shi , Pengfei Zhuang

In this study, we show that, in the background of the primordial magnetic field, the chiral magnetic effect effect can significantly amplify the chiral chemical potential sourced by the CP violation near the bubble walls during the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-22 Hui Liu , Ligong Bian

We study a confined system of Dirac fermions in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic field. Splitting the system into different regions, we determine their corresponding energy spectrum solutions. We underline their physical properties by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ahmed Jellal , Abderrahim El Mouhafid

Dirac fermions coupled to gauge fields can exhibit the chiral anomaly even on a finite spatial lattice. A careful description of this phenomenon yields new insights into the nature of spin-charge relations and on-site symmetries (symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-16 Djordje Radicevic

Skyrmion lines in metallic chiral magnets carry an emergent magnetic field experienced by the conduction electrons. The inflow and outflow of this field across a closed surface is not necessarily equal, thus it allows for the existence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-11 Shi-Zeng Lin , Avadh Saxena

Magnetic monopoles, despite their ongoing experimental search as elementary particles, have inspired the discovery of analogous excitations in condensed matter systems. In chiral condensed matter systems, emergent monopoles are responsible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-11 Jung-Shen B. Tai , Andrew J. Hess , Jin-Sheng Wu , Ivan I. Smalyukh