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A power expansion scheme is set up to determine the Wigner function that satisfies the quantum kinetic equation for spin-1/2 charged fermions in a background electromagnetic field. Vector and axial-vector current induced by magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-27 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We compute the finite temperature correction to the induced fermion number for fermions coupled to a static SU(2) chiral background, using the derivative expansion technique. At zero temperature the induced fermion number is topological,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerald V. Dunne , Kumar Rao

We discuss the chiral symmetry restoration at high temperature and chemical potential for a four-fermion interaction theory in arbitrary dimensions ($2\leq D<4$). To investigate the ground state of the theory we calculate the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomohiro Inagaki

We demonstrate how chiral oscillations of a massive Dirac field can be described within quantum field theory using a finite-time interaction picture approach, where the mass term in the Lagrangian is treated as a perturbative coupling…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Massimo Blasone , Francesco Giacosa , Luca Smaldone , Giorgio Torrieri

Here we analyze the finite temperature expectation values of the charge and current densities for a massive fermionic quantum field with nonzero chemical potential, $\mu$, induced by a magnetic flux running along the axis of an idealized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Eugênio R. Bezerra de Mello , Aram A. Saharian , Azadeh Mohammadi

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

The fermionic dispersion relation in the presence of a background magnetic field and a high temperature QED plasma is calculated exactly in the external field, using the Hard Thermal Loop effective action. As the field strength increases…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Per Elmfors

Dynamical fermion mass generation in external chromomagnetic fields is considered at non--zero temperature. The general features of dynamical chiral symmetry breaking ($D\chi SB$) are investigated for several field configurations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Ebert , V. Ch. Zhukovsky

We study the consistency of dynamical fermionic matter with the asymptotic safety scenario of quantum gravity using the functional renormalisation group. Since this scenario suggests strongly coupled quantum gravity in the UV, one expects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Jan Meibohm , Jan M. Pawlowski

The use of variational method in functional integral approach is discussed for fermion and boson systems with Coulomb interaction. The formal general expression of thermodynamic potential is obtained by Feynman path integral technique and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ilmars Madzhulis , Vilnis Frishfelds

I present the recent developments in a specific sub-field of chiral gauge theories on the lattice. This sub-field pertains to the use of infinitely many fermi fields to describe a single chiral field. In this approach, both anomalous and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 Rajamani Narayanan

Chirality transfer between fermions and gauge fields plays a crucial role for understanding the dynamics of anomalous transport phenomena such as the Chiral Magnetic Effect. In this proceeding we present a first principles study of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 M. Mace , N. Mueller , S. Schlichting , S. Sharma

We study the effects of finite chemical potential and impurity scattering on dynamical fermion mass generation in (2+1)-dimensional quantum electrodynamics. In any realistic systems, these effects usually can not be neglected. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-23 Wei Li , Guo-Zhu Liu

We study the excitation of the electric current of chiral fermions along the external magnetic field, known as the chiral magnetic effect, in the presence of the background axial-vector field. The calculation of the current is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-22 Maxim Dvornikov

We study again the phenomenon of charge fractionalization at finite temperature. Our calculations are done in a framework in which the connection between the induced fermion number and the chiral anomaly is manifest. We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-30 Yeong-Chuan Kao , Ming-Chiun Wu

Vacuum properties of quantum chromodynamics in strong magnetic and finite electric fields are investigated. We show that when a uniform electric field is instantaneously applied in the parallel direction to a strong magnetic field, it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Arata Yamamoto

The fermionic measure in the functional integral of a gauge theory suffers from an ambiguity in the form of a chiral phase. By fixing it, one is led once again to the conclusion that a chiral phase in the quark mass term of QCD has no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Mitra

The chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current is generated along a magnetic field. Recently, in nonequilibrium systems, negative longitudinal magnetoresistance has been observed experimentally in Dirac/Weyl…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-18 Yohei Ibe , Hiroaki Sumiyoshi

In quantum chromodynamics, a gauge field configuration with nonzero topological charge generates a difference between the number of left- and right-handed quarks. When a (electromagnetic) magnetic field is added to this configuration, an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kenji Fukushima , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Harmen J. Warringa

We derive the quantum kinetic theory for fermions with arbitrary mass in a background electromagnetic field from the Wigner-function approach. Since spin of massive fermions is a dynamical degree of freedom, the kinetic equations with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-27 Koichi Hattori , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Di-Lun Yang