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Chiral anomalies give rise to dissipationless transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic and vortical effects. In these notes I review the theory from a quantum field theoretic, hydrodynamic and holographic perspective. A physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-01 Karl Landsteiner

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

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

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a phenomenon in which an electric current is induced parallel to an external magnetic field in the presence of chiral asymmetry in a fermionic system. In this paper, we show that the electric current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Kohei Kamada , Chang Sub Shin

The energy dependence of observable two particle correlator in search for the local strong parity violation in Au+Au collisions is estimated within a simple phenomenological model. The model reproduces available RHIC data but at LHC…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-11-29 V. D. Toneev , V. Voronyuk

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 response of chiral fermions to time and space dependent axial imbalance & constant magnetic field is analyzed. The axialvector-vector-vector (AVV) three-point function is studied using a real-time approach at finite temperature in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-01 Miklos Horvath , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao , Hai-cang Ren

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a collective quantum phenomenon that arises from the interplay between gauge field topology and fermion chiral anomaly, encompassing a wide range of physical systems from semimetals to quark-gluon plasma.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Jinfeng Liao , Prithwish Tribedy

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 axial magnetic effect (AME) is one of the anomalous transport phenomena in which the energy current is induced by an axial magnetic field. Here, we numerically study the AME for the relativistic Wilson fermion in the axial magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Atsuo Shitade , Yasufumi Araki

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is an exact statement that connects via the axial anomaly the electric current in a system consisting of interacting fermions and gauge field with chirality imbalance that is put into a strong external…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-17 L. Ya. Glozman

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field of single-handed quarks, caused by interactions with topological gluon fields from QCD vacuum fluctuations. A major background of CME measurements in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-08 Jie Zhao

The (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamics with chiral anomaly is used to obtain a quantitative description of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions. We find that the charge-dependent hadron azimuthal correlations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-28 Yuji Hirono , Tetsufumi Hirano , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

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…

The article presents a study aimed at probing the dependence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) on the magnetic field strength using the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (AVFD) model in Pb--Pb at LHC energies. The results demonstrate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-13 Panos Christakoglou

Helical symmetry of massive Dirac fermions is broken explicitly in the presence of electric and magnetic fields. Here we present two equations for the divergence of helical and axial-vector currents following the Jackiw-Johnson approach to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Relativistic gravitational anomalies lead to anomalous transport coefficients that can be activated at finite temperature in condensed matter systems with gapless fermions. The chiral vortical effect (CVE) is an anomalous chiral current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-14 J. Nissinen , G. E. Volovik

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

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is a novel transport phenomenon, arising from the interplay between quantum anomalies and strong magnetic fields in chiral systems. In high-energy nuclear collisions, the CME may survive the expansion of the…

This is a second study of chiral anomaly induced transport within a holographic model consisting of anomalous $U(1)_V\times U(1)_A$ Maxwell theory in Schwarzschild-$AdS_5$ spacetime. In the first part, chiral magnetic/separation effects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Yanyan Bu , Michael Lublinsky , Amir Sharon