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We consider a relativistic plasma containing charged chiral fermions in an external magnetic field, e.g a chirally symmetric quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show that triangle anomalies imply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

Chirality is a fundamental asymmetry phenomenon, with chiral optical elements exhibiting asymmetric response in reflection or absorption of circularly polarized light. Recent realizations of such elements include nanoplasmonic systems with…

The response of chiral fermions to time and space dependent axial imbalance & constant magnetic field is analyzed. The axialvector-vector-vector (AVV) three-point function is studied using a real-time approach at finite temperature in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-01 Miklos Horvath , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao , Hai-cang Ren

High-amplitude, chaotic/turbulent electromagnetic fluctuations are ubiquitous in high-energy-density laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, where they can be excited by various kinetic-streaming and/or anisotropy-driven instabilities, such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Brett D. Keenan , Alexander L. Ford , Mikhail V. Medvedev

We analyze the Carroll-Field-Jackiw (CFJ) modification of electrodynamics reformulated as the ordinary Maxwell theory with an additional special axion field. In this form, the CFJ model appears as a special case of the pre-metric approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Yakov Itin

Strongly magnetizing a plasma adds a range of waves that do not exist in unmagnetized plasmas and enlarges the laser-plasma interaction (LPI) landscape. In this paper, we use particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to investigate strongly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Lili Manzo , Matthew R. Edwards , Yuan Shi

Intense radiation field can modify plasma properties, the corresponding refractive index, and lead to such nonlinear propagation effects as self-focusing. We estimate the corresponding effects in pair plasma, both in unmagnetized and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-29 Maxim Lyutikov

Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime candidate mechanisms that may energize the plasma emitting the strongly polarized X-ray emission from black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) in their hard states. The mechanism requires strong magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-16 Henric Krawczynski

We consider effects of spatial dispersion in noncentrosymmetric time-reversal invariant Weyl metals in the presence of a static magnetic field. In particular, we study currents that are linear in both the spatial derivatives of an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 S. Nandy , D. A. Pesin

In this work, an innovative scheme is proposed that exploits the response of magnetized plasmas to realize a refractive index exceeding unity for right circularly polarized (RCP) waves. Using two- and three-dimensional Particle-in-Cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Trishul Dhalia , Rohit Juneja , Amita Das

We suppose that the covariance of Lagrangians always taking place results in a distortion of any electric and magnetic field by a pseudoscalar field of dark matter axions and axion-like particles. As a result, electric and magnetic fields…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Alexander J. Silenko

We theoretically propose a method to enhance dramatically a magneto-chiral(MC) effect by using the photonic crystals composed of a multiferroic material. The MC effect, the directional birefringence even for unpolarized light, is so small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kei Sawada , Naoto Nagaosa

The electron dynamics and the mechanisms of power absorption in radio-frequency (RF) driven, magnetically enhanced capacitively coupled plasmas (MECCPs) at low pressure are investigated. The device in focus is a geometrically asymmetric…

This is a PhD dissertation. Ignited by the chiral anomaly of recently discovered Weyl (semi-)metals, we study the chiral magnetic effect and the natural optical activity of noncentrosymmetric metals. Both phenomena are related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Jing Ma

Ultrafast laser pulses provide unique tools to manipulate magnetization dynamics at femtosecond timescales, where the interaction of the electric field -- such as excitation of spin carriers to non-equilibrium states, generation of…

The chiral magnetic effect consists in the induction of the electric current along the direction of the magnetic field. The corresponding transport coefficient $b_0$, known as the chiral magnetic conductivity, is proportional to the chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Kirill Tuchin

The nature of dark matter is an unsolved cosmological problem and axions are one of the weakly interacting cold dark matter candidates. Axions or ALPs (Axion-like particles) are pseudo-scalar bosons predicted by beyond-standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Harsh Mehta , Suvodip Mukherjee

Chiroptical effects, characterized by different optical responses for left- (LCP) and right- handed circularly polarized light (RCP), are powerful and valuable tools in optics with wide applications in polarization resolved imaging and…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-02 Weimin Ye , Xiaodong Yuan , Chucai Guo , Jianfa Zhang , Biao Yang , Shuang Zhang

In this work we study the electromagnetic response induced by axions in a magnetized plasma, focusing specifically on characterizing energy transfer and energy losses from the ambient axion field in highly inhomogeneous and strongly varying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Fabrizio Corelli , Estanis Utrilla Ginés , Enrico Cannizzaro , Andrea Caputo , Samuel J. Witte

An anisotropic thermal plasma phase of a strongly coupled gauge theory can be holographically modelled by an anisotropic AdS black hole. The temperature and anisotropy parameter of the AdS black hole background of interest [1] is specified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-12 Mohammad Ali-Akbari , Seyed Farid Taghavi