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Chirality manifests in various forms in nature. However, there is no evidence of the chirality in one-dimensional charge density wave (CDW) systems. Here, we have explored the chirality among quasi-one-dimensional CDW ground states with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Sun-Woo Kim , Hyun-Jung Kim , Sangmo Cheon , Tae-Hwan Kim

We propose and investigate numerically a one-dimensional model which exhibits a non-Anderson disorder-driven transition. Such transitions have recently been attracting a great deal of attention in the context of Weyl semimetals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Björn Sbierski , Sergey Syzranov

The parity anomalous semimetal is a topological state of matter characterized by its semi-metallic nature and a quantum Hall conductance of one-half $e^{2}/h$ ($e$ is the elementary charge and $h$ is the Planck constant). Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Shi-Hao Bi , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Using a general Ginzburg-Landau effective Lagrangian, we study the topological structure and low-lying collective modes of dense QCD having both chiral and diquark condensates, for two and three massless flavors. As we found earlier, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Naoki Yamamoto , Motoi Tachibana , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Gordon Baym

We discuss the effect of chiral anomaly as a possible mechanism for triggering formation of domains of disoriented chiral condensate (DCC) in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The anomalous $\pi^0 \to 2 \gamma$ coupling and the strong,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Asakawa , H. Minakata , B. Muller

The chiral anomaly underlies a broad number of phenomena, from enhanced electronic transport in topological metals to anomalous currents in the quark-gluon plasma. The discovery of topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Sharareh Sayyad , Julia D. Hannukainen , Adolfo G. Grushin

We suggest that electromagnetic chirality, generally displayed by 3D or 2D complex chiral structures, can occur in 1D patterned composites whose components are achiral. This feature is highly unexpected in a 1D system which is geometrically…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-05 Carlo Rizza , Andrea Di Falco , Michael Scalora , Alessandro Ciattoni

Physics arising from two-dimensional~(2D) Dirac cones has been a topic of great theoretical and experimental interest to studies of gapless topological phases and to simulations of relativistic systems. Such $2$D Dirac cones are often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Wenlei Zhao , Longwen Zhou , Jiangbin Gong

Chiral anomaly, a non-conservation of chiral charge pumped by the topological nontrivial gauge fields, has been predicted to exist in Weyl semimetals. However, until now, the experimental signature of this effect exclusively relies on the…

Infra-red properties of the triangle anomaly and the ``anomaly pole'' are elaborated and applied to the study of high-energy scattering in QCD, when the gauge symmetry is partially broken to SU(2). It is shown that the chiral flavor anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Alan R. White

The chiral anomaly is one of the robust quantum effects in relativistic field theories with a chiral symmetry where charges in chiral sectors appear to be separately conserved. The chiral anomaly, which is often associated with a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Shuyang Wang , Jay D. Sau

The $(1+1)$-dimensional chiral anomaly is a paradigmatic exact result in quantum field theory, traditionally formulated for zero-temperature pure states where it arises from spectral flow induced by external gauge fields and captures…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Ze-Min Huang , Sebastian Diehl

We study disorder effects in the extended Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained on reduced correlation matrices (RCMs) of disorder-free systems to predict winding number phase diagrams in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-13 Zhekai Yin , C. K. Ong

The hallmark of two-dimensional chiral topological phases is the existence of anomalous gapless modes at the spatial boundary. Yet, the manifestation of this edge anomaly within the bulk ground-state wavefunction itself remains only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Yarden Sheffer , Ruihua Fan , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Shinsei Ryu

Topological semimetals is a new class of condensed matter systems with nontrivial electronic structure topology. Their unusual observable properties may often be understood in terms of quantum anomalies. In particular, Weyl and Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 A. A. Burkov

The chiral anomaly is a quantum mechanical effect for massless Dirac fermions in both particle physics and condensed matter physics. Here we present a set of effective models for single massless Dirac fermions in one- and three-dimensions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Huan-Wen Wang , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

We examine the transition from trivial to non-trivial phases in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model subjected to disorder in a quasi-periodic environment. We analytically determine the phase boundary, and characterize the localization of normal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Sayan Sircar

It is shown that the local axial anomaly in $2-$dimensions emerges naturally if one postulates an underlying noncommutative fuzzy structure of spacetime . In particular the Dirac-Ginsparg-Wilson relation on ${\bf S}^2_F$ is shown to contain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Badis Ydri

Topology and disorder have deep connections and a rich combined influence on quantum transport. In order to probe these connections, we synthesized one-dimensional chiral symmetric wires with controllable disorder via spectroscopic…

Graphene is a monolayer of carbon atoms packed into a hexagon lattice to host two pairs of massless two-dimensional Dirac fermions in the absence of or with negligible spin-orbit coupling. It is known that the existence of non-zero electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Shun-Qing Shen , Chang-An Li , Qian Niu