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The microscopic quantum nature of elementary particles, chirality, leads to macroscopic phenomena like the chiral anomaly, chiral magnetic effect, and chiral plasma instability. We review recent progress of the studies of these chiral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-22 Kohei Kamada , Naoki Yamamoto , Di-Lun Yang

We utilize the chiral kinetic theory in a relaxation-time approximation to investigate the nonlinear anomalous responses of chiral fluids with viscous effects. Unlike the cases in equilibrium, it is found that the chiral magnetic effect and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yoshimasa Hidaka , Di-Lun Yang

We study the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence taking into account the chiral anomaly effect. This chiral magnetohydrodynamic description of the plasma is expected to be relevant for temperatures comparable to the electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-23 Petar Pavlović , Günter Sigl

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

The Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in an ionized plasma is considered with a focus on the generation of magnetic field via the Biermann battery mechanisms. The problem is studied through direct numerical simulations of two counter-directed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-08-11 Mikhail Modestov , Vitaly Bychkov , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund , Axel Brandenburg

We consider infrared dependences of chiral effects, like chiral magnetic effect, in chiral media. The main observation is that there exist competing infrared-sensitive parameters, sometimes not apparent. The value of the chiral effects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 V. P. Kirilin , A. V. Sadofyev , V. I. Zakharov

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) -- a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum chiral anomaly -- induces currents along magnetic field lines, facilitating mutual conversion between chiral asymmetry and magnetic helicity. Although the finite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

We study magnetothermal instability in the ionized plasmas including the effects of Ohmic, ambipolar and Hall diffusion. Magnetic field in the single fluid approximation does not allow transverse thermal condensations, however, non-ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Mohsen Shadmehri , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar , Alireza Khesali

In a system of charged chiral fermions driven out of equilibrium, an electric current parallel to the magnetic field can generate a dynamic instability by which electromagnetic waves become amplified. Whether a similar instability can occur…

We analyze the magnetic field evolution in dense quark matter with unbroken chiral symmetry, which can be found inside quark and hybrid stars. The magnetic field evolves owing to the chiral magnetic effect in the presence of the electroweak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Maxim Dvornikov

We consider magnetostatics of chiral media with a non-vanishing chiral chemical potential $\mu_5\neq 0$. The chiral anomaly is known to have macroscopic manifestations which go beyond the standard classical electrodynamics and we introduce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-02 Z. V. Khaidukov , V. P. Kirilin , A. V. Sadofyev , V. I. Zakharov

Magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) turbulence is ubiquitous in magnetized astrophysical plasmas, and it radically changes a great variety of astrophysical processes. In this review, we give the concept of MHD turbulence and explain the origin of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-24 Elena Popova , Alexandre Lazarian

In an electron-positron plasma, an imbalance in the number of right- and left-chiral particles can lead to the growth of a helical magnetic field through a phenomenon called the chiral plasma instability (CPI). In the early universe,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Murman Gurgenidze , Andrew J. Long , Alberto Roper Pol , Axel Brandenburg , Tina Kahniashvili

We employ a 3+1D anomalous hydrodynamics with initial condition generated by HIJING to simulate the chiral vortical effect and the chiral magnetic effect in heavy-ion collisions. This allows us to calculate the charge-dependent two-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-09-28 Xingyu Guo , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Xu-Guang Huang , Wei-Tian Deng , Yuji Hirono

A simple mechanism of controllable switching of magnetic vortex chirality is proposed. We consider curvilinear magnetic nanoshells of spherical geometry whose ground state is a vortex magnetization distribution. Chirality of this magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-25 Kostiantyn V. Yershov , Volodymyr P. Kravchuk , Denis D. Sheka , Yuri Gaididei

Weak-interaction-mediated chiral imbalance generation in idealized massless electrons during core-collapse supernovae was once proposed to be the source of strong magnetic fields found in neutron stars. The effect goes by the name of chiral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-06 Steven P. Harris , Srimoyee Sen

We study relativistic magnetohydrodynamics with longitudinal boost invariance in the presence of chiral magnetic effects and finite electric conductivity. With initial magnetic fields parallel or anti-parallel to electric fields, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-03 Irfan Siddique , Ren-jie Wang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

We study chiral fermions electroweakly interacting with a background matter having the nonuniform density and the velocity arbitrarily depending on coordinates. The dynamics of this system is described approximately by finding the Berry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-25 Maxim Dvornikov

Very strong magnetic fields can arise in non-central heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies, which may not decay quickly in a conducting plasma. We carry out relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) simulations to study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-11 Arpan Das , Shreyansh S. Dave , P. S. Saumia , Ajit M. Srivastava

We study the collective modes in relativistic electromagnetic or quark-gluon plasmas with an asymmetry between left- and right-handed chiral fermions, based on the recently formulated kinetic theory with Berry curvature corrections. We find…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-08-05 Yukinao Akamatsu , Naoki Yamamoto