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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 wave from the interplay between the chiral magnetic effect and the chiral separation effect is simulated in a box system with the periodic boundary condition based on the chiral kinetic equations of motion. Simulation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 Wen-Hao Zhou , Jun Xu

We study the generation and evolution of magnetic field in the presence of chiral imbalance and gravitational anomaly which gives an additional contribution to the vortical current. The contribution due to gravitational anomaly is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-21 Sampurn Anand , Jitesh R. Bhatt , Arun Kumar Pandey

We investigate the chiral properties of QCD in presence of a magnetic background field and in the low temperature regime, by lattice numerical simulations of N_f = 2 QCD. We adopt a standard staggered discretization, with a pion mass around…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-07-04 Massimo D'Elia , Francesco Negro

The exciting possibility of direct observation of QCD instantons in heavy-ion collisions has recently been proposed by Kharzeev. The underlying phenomenon, known as the chiral magnetic effect, may have been observed recently at RHIC, and a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-05 M. Abramczyk , T. Blum , G. Petropoulos , R. Zhou

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

Initial states of dense matter with nonzero electron chiral imbalance could potentially give rise to strong magnetic fields through chiral plasma instability. Previous work indicated that unless chiral chemical potential is as large as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-01 Srimoyee Sen , Varun Vaidya

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

The chiral magnetic effect with a fluctuating chiral imbalance is more realistic in the evolution of quark-gluon plasma, which reflects the random gluonic topological transition. Incorporating this dynamics, we calculate the chiral magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-27 Lei Yin , De-fu Hou , Hai-cang Ren

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

In this paper, we shall address some field theoretic issues regarding the chiral magnetic effect. The general structure of the magnetic current consistent with the electromagnetic gauge invariance is obtained and the impact of the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 Defu Hou , Hui Liu , Hai-cang Ren

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions provide an ideal environment to study the emergent phenomena in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The chiral magnetic effect (CME) is one of the most interesting, arising from the topological charge…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-05-11 Jie Zhao

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a remarkable phenomenon that stems from highly nontrivial interplay of QCD chiral symmetry, axial anomaly, and gluonic topology. It is of fundamental importance to search for the CME in experiments. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Jinfeng Liao

We provide a phenomenological analysis of present experimental searches for local parity violation manifested through the Chiral Magnetic Effect. We introduce and discuss the relevant correlation functions used for the measurements. Our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Adam Bzdak , Volker Koch , Jinfeng Liao

We investigate the chiral magnetic effect (CME) under a strong magnetic field B = B_0 x_3 at low temperature T < T^chi_c. For this purpose, we employ the instanton vacuum configuration with the finite instanton-number fluctuation Delta,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-07 Seung-il Nam

Magnetic field plays a crucial role in various novel phenomena in heavy-ion collisions. We solve the Maxwell equations numerically in a medium with time-dependent electric conductivity by using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-06 Hui Li , Xiao-Liang Xia , Xu-Guang Huang , Huan Zhong Huang

Understanding axial charge dynamics driven by changes in Chern-Simons number densities is a key aspect in understanding the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions. Most phenomenological simulations assume that a large amount…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Sebastian Grieninger , Sergio Morales-Tejera

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…

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to generation of the electric current along a magnetic field in a chirally imbalanced system of quarks. The latter is predicted by quantum chromodynamics to arise from quark interaction with…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-07-22 Yicheng Feng , Sergei A. Voloshin , Fuqiang Wang

About eight years ago it was predicted theoretically that a charged chiral plasma could support the propagation of the so-called chiral magnetic waves, which are driven by the anomalous chiral magnetic and chiral separation effects. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 I. A. Shovkovy , D. O. Rybalka , E. V. Gorbar