Strongly interacting matter in extreme magnetic fields
Abstract
Magnetic fields are ubiquitous across different physical systems of current interest; from the early Universe, compact astrophysical objects and heavy-ion collisions to condensed matter systems. A proper treatment of the effects produced by magnetic fields during the dynamical evolution of these systems, can help to understand observables that otherwise show a puzzling behavior. Furthermore, when these fields are comparable to or stronger than \Lambda_QCD, they serve as excellent probes to help elucidate the physics of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of temperature and density. In this work we provide a comprehensive review of recent developments on the description of QED and QCD systems where magnetic field driven effects are important. These include the modification of meson static properties such as masses and form factors, the chiral magnetic effect, the description of anomalous transport coefficients, superconductivity in extreme magnetic fields, the properties of neutron stars, the evolution of heavy-ion collisions, as well as effects on the QCD phase diagram. We describe recent theory and phenomenological developments using effective models as well as LQCD methods. The work represents a state-of-the-art review of the field, motivated by presentations and discussions during the "Workshop on Strongly Interacting Matter in Strong Electromagnetic Fields" that took place in the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in the city of Trento, Italy, September 25-29, 2023.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.18632,
title = {Strongly interacting matter in extreme magnetic fields},
author = {Prabal Adhikari and Martin Ammon and Sidney S. Avancini and Alejandro Ayala and Aritra Bandyopadhyay and David Blaschke and Fabio L. Braghin and Pavel Buividovich and Rafael P. Cardoso and Casey Cartwright and Jorge David Castaño-Yepes and Maxim Chernodub and M. Coppola and Mayusree Das and Mariana Dutra and Gergely Endrődi and Jianjun Fang and Ricardo L. S. Farias and Eduardo S. Fraga and Arthur Frazon and Kenji Fukushima and Juan D. García-Muñoz and Eduardo Garnacho-Velasco and D. Gomez Dumm and Sebastian Grieninger and Francesca Gulminelli and Juan Hernandez and Chowdhury Aminul Islam and Matthias Kaminski and Andrey Kotov and Gastão Krein and Jing Li and Pok Man Lo and Marcelo Loewe and Odilon Lourenço and Gergely Markó and Kau D. Marquez and Ana Mizher and Banibrata Mukhopadhyay and Enrique Muñoz and S. Noguera and Rodrigo M. Nunes and Helena Pais and Letícia F. Palhares and Constança Providência and Alfredo Raya and Tulio Restrepo and Juan Cristóbal Rojas and N. N. Scoccola and Luigi Scurto and Armen Sedrakian and Dominik Smith and William Rafael Tavares and Maria E. Tejeda-Yeomans and Varese S. Timóteo and Laura Tolos and Cristian Villavicencio and Fridolin Weber and Shigehiro Yasui and Renato Zamora and Zenia Zuraiq},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18632},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
325 pages-long review of recent topics of interest in the field of magnetic field effects on QED and QCD matter. To be susbmitted to PNPP