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Many-body systems with chiral fermions can exhibit novel transport phenomena that violate parity and time reversal symmetries, such as the chiral magnetic effect, the anomalous Hall effect, and the anomalous generation of charge. Based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Zebin Qiu , Gaoqing Cao , Xu-Guang Huang

We consider an approximation procedure to evaluate the finite-temperature one-loop fermionic density in the presence of a chiral background field which systematically incorporates effects from inhomogeneities in the chiral field through a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bruno G. Taketani , Eduardo S. Fraga

We analyze the Chiral Magnetic Effect for non-Hermitian fermionic systems using the biorthogonal formulation of quantum mechanics. In contrast to the Hermitian chiral counterparts, we show that the Chiral Magnetic Effect may take place in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Maxim N. Chernodub , Alberto Cortijo

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) -- a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum chiral anomaly -- induces currents along magnetic field lines, facilitating mutual conversion between chiral asymmetry and magnetic helicity. Although the finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

In disordered Weyl semimetals, mechanisms of topological origin lead to the protection against Anderson localization, and at the same time to different types of transverse electromagnetic response -- the anomalous Hall, and chiral magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Alexander Altland , Dmitry Bagrets

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 investigate the nonlinear response of the chiral magnetic current to an external magnetic field in a holographic setup. Using the D3/D7 brane system, where the chiral magnetic effect (CME) can be realized by considering rotating probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Masataka Matsumoto , Mirmani Mirjalali , Ali Vahedi

Spin accumulation induced by an electric field in chiral electron system is investigated based on a linear response theory. It is shown that the spin response function has a spatially uniform component due to the chiral angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Gen Tatara

A systematic study of chiral effects is presented using an Effective Field Theory framework. By integrating out a massive Dirac fermion at finite temperature in presence of vector and axial background fields, the currents and their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Rémy Larue , Amaury Marchon , Jérémie Quevillon , Diego Saviot

We demonstrate the non-renormalization of the Chiral Separation Effect (CSE) in quenched finite-density QCD in both confinement and deconfinement phases using a recently developed numerical method which allows, for the first time, to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-12 M. Puhr , P. V. Buividovich

Using derivative expansion applied to the Wigner transform of the two - point Green function we analyse the anomalous quantum Hall effect (AQHE), and the chiral magnetic effect (CME). The corresponding currents are proportional to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-23 M. A. Zubkov

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 consider dephasing by interactions in a one-dimensional chiral fermion system (e.g. a Quantum Hall edge state). For finite-range interactions, we calculate the spatial decay of the Green's function at fixed energy, which sets the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Clemens Neuenhahn , Florian Marquardt

Matter with chiral fermions is microscopically described by theory with quantum anomaly and macroscopically described (at low energy) by anomalous hydrodynamics. For such systems in the presence of external magnetic field and chirality…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-10 Yi Yin , Jinfeng Liao

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

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-20 Shuzhe Shi , Yin Jiang , Elias Lilleskov , Jinfeng Liao

Magnetic interactions have long served as the most robust and widely used approach for realizing nonreciprocity, with an externally applied magnetic field breaking time-reversal symmetry (TRS) and chiral photon-magnon interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Jiguang Yao , Ying Yang , Chenyang Lu , Lihua Zhong , Xiaolong Fan , Desheng Xue , C. -M. Hu

We study a heavy impurity moving longitudinal with the direction of an external magnetic field in an anomalous chiral medium. Such system would carry a non-dissipative current of chiral magnetic effect associated with the anomaly. We show,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Andrey V. Sadofyev , Yi Yin

Multi-Weyl semimetals are a kind of topological phase of matter with discrete Weyl nodes characterized by multiple monopole charges, in which the chiral anomaly, the anomalous nonconservation of an axial current, occurs in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Ze-Min Huang , Jianhui Zhou , Shun-Qing Shen

The magnetoelectric coupling of electrons in a three-dimensional solid can be effectively described by axion electrodynamics. Here we report the discovery of the fractional magnetoelectric effect in chiral anomalous semimetals of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Jin-Yu Zou , Zi-Ang Hu , Shun-Qing Shen

The massless fermions of a Weyl semimetal come in two species of opposite chirality, in two cones of the band structure. As a consequence, the current $j$ induced in one Weyl cone by a magnetic field $B$ (the chiral magnetic effect, CME) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 T. E. O'Brien , C. W. J. Beenakker , I. Adagideli