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The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) -- the separation of positive and negative electric charges along the direction of the external magnetic field in quark-gluon plasma and other topologically non-trivial media -- is a consequence of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Kirill Tuchin

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 study the current of chiral charge density in a Dirac semimetal with two Dirac points in momentum space, subjected to an externally applied time dependent electric field and in the presence of a magnetic field. Based on the kinetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Alexander A. Zyuzin , M. Silaev , Vladimir A. Zyuzin

We give a numerical simulation of the generation of the magnetic field and the charge-separation signal due to the chiral magnetic effect (CME) --- the induction of an electric current by the magnetic field in a parity-odd matter --- in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Xu-Guang Huang , Wei-Tian Deng , Guo-Liang Ma , Gang Wang

Employing a two-band model of Weyl semimetal, the existence of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) is established within the linear-response theory. The crucial role played by the limiting procedure in deriving correct transport properties is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Ming-Che Chang , Min-Fong Yang

Negative magnetoresistance in Dirac semimetals is typically considered as a manifestation of chiral magnetic effect (CME). The relation between these two phenomena has the status of a hypothesis and is based on sequence of assumptions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 R. A. Abramchuk , M. A. Zubkov

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

Considering the magnetic field response of the QGP medium, we perform a systematical study of the chiral magnetic effect(CME), and make a comparison it with the experimental results for the background-subtracted correlator $H$ at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-10 Bang-Xiang Chen , Sheng-Qin Feng

We consider relativistic fermionic systems in lattice regularization out of equilibrium. The chiral magnetic conductivity $\sigma_{CME}$ is calculated in spatially infinite system for the case when the chiral chemical potential depends on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Chitradip Banerjee , Meir Lewkowicz , M. A. Zubkov

The 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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 Han-Sheng Li , Yu-Shan Chang , Yi Yang , Fuqiang Wang

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions originates from a chirality imbalance among quarks within metastable QCD vacuum domains and may be linked to $CP$ violation, which is believed to play a crucial role in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Jing Gu , Jinhui Chen , Jie Zhao

We report on the mean-field study of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) in static magnetic fields within a simple model of a parity-breaking Weyl semimetal given by the lattice Wilson-Dirac Hamiltonian with constant chiral chemical potential.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-07 P. V. Buividovich , M. Puhr , S. N. Valgushev

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field, due to topological charge fluctuations in QCD. Charge correlation ($\Delta\gamma$) signals consistent with CME have been first observed almost a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-06-05 Hanlin Li , Jie Zhao , Fuqiang Wang

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 study relation between Chiral Separation Effect (CSE) and Chiral Anomaly, and argue that CSE does not inherit the immutability of Chiral Anomaly. For QED in the leading order in electric charge, with point-splitting regularization in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Z. V. Khaidukov , R. A. Abramchuk

The chiral magnetic effect (CME), arising from the chiral anomaly and enabling a mutual conversion between magnetic topology and fermionic chirality, is a key mechanism in magnetar field evolution. Previous work by Dehman & Pons (2025)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Clara Dehman

Chiral anomaly is a very fundamental aspect of quantum theories with chiral fermion, from the Standard Model to supersymmetric field theories or even string theories. How such microscopic anomaly manifests itself in a macroscopic many-body…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-22 Jinfeng Liao

We study the influence of the chiral phase transition on the chiral magnetic effect. The chiral electric current density along the magnetic field, the electric charge difference between on each side of the reaction plane, and the azimuthal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Wei-jie Fu , Yu-xin Liu , Yue-liang Wu

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a highly discussed effect in heavy-ion collisions stating that, in the presence of a magnetic field B, an electric current is generated in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon fields. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-29 Ingo Kirsch , Tigran Kalaydzhyan

The field of topological materials science has recently been focussing on three-dimensional Dirac semimetals, which exhibit robust Dirac phases in the bulk. However, the absence of characteristic surface states in accidental Dirac…