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The search for the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions helps us understand the $\mathcal{CP}$ symmetry breaking in strong interactions and the topological nature of the QCD vacuum. Since the background and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-22 Bang-Xiang Chen , Xin-Li Zhao , Guo-Liang Ma

The chiral magnetic effect (CME) refers to charge separation along a strong magnetic field between left- and right-handed quarks, caused by interactions with topological gluon fields from QCD vacuum fluctuations. We present two approaches…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Jie Zhao

We consider the energy dependence of the local ${\cal P}$ and ${\cal CP}$ violation in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions over a large energy range within a simple phenomenological model. It is expected that at LHC the chiral magnetic effect will…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 V. D. Toneev , V. Voronyuk

We analyze the Chiral Magnetic Effect for non-Hermitian fermionic systems using the biorthogonal formulation of quantum mechanics. In contrast to the Hermitian chiral counterparts, we show that the Chiral Magnetic Effect may take place in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Maxim N. Chernodub , Alberto Cortijo

Vacuum of Quantum Chromodynamics in very strong (hadron-scale) magnetic fields exhibits many interesting nonperturbative effects. Some of these effects can be studied with the help of lattice simulations in quenched QCD. We review our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 P. V. Buividovich , M. N. Chernodub , E. V. Luschevskaya , M. I. Polikarpov

The correlations of electric currents in hot non-Abelian plasma are responsible for the experimental manifestations of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in heavy-ion collisions. We evaluate these correlations using holography, and show that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Sebastian Grieninger , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

The hot and dense medium produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions has been conjectured to be accompanied by an axial charge asymmetry that may lead to a separation of electric charges in the direction of the extremely strong magnetic…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-02-16 Yu Hu

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a fundamental prediction of QCD, and various observables have been proposed in heavy ion collisions to access this physics. Recently the CMS Collaboration \cite{Khachatryan:2016got} has reported results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 R. Belmont , J. L. Nagle

The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) has been investigated as a new transport phenomenon in condensed matter. Such an effect appears in systems with chiral fermions and involves an electric current generated by a magnetic field by means of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-06 Pedro D. S. Silva , Manoel M. Ferreira , Marco Schreck , Luis F. Urrutia

We demonstrate the non-renormalization of the Chiral Separation Effect (CSE) in quenched finite-density QCD in both confinement and deconfinement phases using a recently developed numerical method which allows, for the first time, to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-05-12 M. Puhr , P. V. Buividovich

The massless fermions of a Weyl semimetal come in two species of opposite chirality, in two cones of the band structure. As a consequence, the current $j$ induced in one Weyl cone by a magnetic field $B$ (the chiral magnetic effect, CME) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-23 T. E. O'Brien , C. W. J. Beenakker , I. Adagideli

The experimental results on heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC indicate that QCD plasma behaves as a nearly perfect fluid described by relativistic hydrodynamics. Hydrodynamics is an effective low-energy Theory Of Everything stating that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Dmitri E. Kharzeev

We simulate QED in a strong constant homogeneous external magnetic field on a euclidean space-time lattice using the Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo method, developed for simulating lattice QCD. Our primary goal is to measure the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-11-08 J. B. Kogut , D. K. Sinclair

We present a systematic study of the correlators used experimentally to probe the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) using the Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics (AVFD) model in Pb--Pb and Xe--Xe collisions at LHC energies. We find a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Panos Christakoglou , Shi Qiu , Joey Staa

We study the frequency dependence of all the chiral vortical and magnetic conductivities for a relativistic gas of free chiral fermions and for a strongly coupled conformal field theory with holographic dual in four dimensions. Both systems…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Karl Landsteiner , Eugenio Megias , Francisco Peña Benítez

In this paper we study the emergence of steady electric currents in QCD as a response to a non-uniform magnetic background using lattice simulations with 2 + 1 quark flavors at the physical point, as well as leading-order chiral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-07-08 B. B. Brandt , G. Endrődi , G. Markó , A. D. M. Valois

We study relation between Chiral Separation Effect (CSE) and Chiral Anomaly, and argue that CSE does not inherit the immutability of Chiral Anomaly. For QED in the leading order in electric charge, with point-splitting regularization in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Z. V. Khaidukov , R. A. Abramchuk

Graphene-like materials can be effectively described by Quantum Electrodynamics in (2+1)-dimensions. In a pristine state, these systems exhibit a symmetry between the nonequivalent Dirac points in the honeycomb lattice. Realistic samples…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-08 Ana Julia Mizher , Alfredo Raya , Cristian Villavicencio

In the chiral magnetic effect, there is a competition between a strong magnetic field, which tends to project positively charged particles to have spin aligned along the magnetic field, and a chirality imbalance which may be produced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Dmitri E. Kharzeev

The Maxwell equations imply that, under the background of non-zero $\boldsymbol{B}$, varying $\theta$ term produces $\boldsymbol{E} \cdot \boldsymbol{B}$. An interesting example is the Witten effect where a magnetic monopole becomes a dyon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Yu Hamada , Ryuichiro Kitano , Ryutaro Matsudo , Kyohei Mukaida