Electromagnetic fields and anomalous transports in heavy-ion collisions—A pedagogical review

XG Huang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The hot and dense matter generated in heavy-ion collisions may contain domains which are
not invariant under P and CP transformations. Moreover, heavy-ion collisions can generate …

[HTML][HTML] Chiral effects in astrophysics and cosmology

K Kamada, N Yamamoto, DL Yang - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
The microscopic quantum nature of elementary particles, chirality, leads to macroscopic
phenomena like the chiral anomaly, chiral magnetic effect, and chiral plasma instability. We …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal transport, geometry, and anomalies

MN Chernodub, Y Ferreiros, AG Grushin… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The relation between thermal transport and gravity was highlighted in the seminal work by
Luttinger in 1964, and has been extensively developed to understand thermal transport …

Axionic field theory of -dimensional Weyl semimetals

P Goswami, S Tewari - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2013 - APS
From a direct calculation of the anomalous Hall conductivity and an effective
electromagnetic action obtained via Fujikawa's chiral rotation technique, we conclude that …

Kinetic theory with Berry curvature from quantum field theories

DT Son, N Yamamoto - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
A kinetic theory can be modified to incorporate triangle anomalies and the chiral magnetic
effect by taking into account the Berry curvature flux through the Fermi surface. We show …

Thermoelectric properties of Weyl and Dirac semimetals

R Lundgren, P Laurell, GA Fiete - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We study the electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity and the thermopower of Weyl
and Dirac semimetals using a semiclassical Boltzmann approach. We investigate the effect …

Constraints on fluid dynamics from equilibrium partition functions

N Banerjee, J Bhattacharya, S Bhattacharyya… - Journal of High Energy …, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We study the thermal partition function of quantum field theories on arbitrary
stationary background spacetime, and with arbitrary stationary background gauge fields, in …

Non-perturbative terahertz high-harmonic generation in the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2

S Kovalev, RMA Dantas, S Germanskiy… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Harmonic generation is a general characteristic of driven nonlinear systems, and serves as
an efficient tool for investigating the fundamental principles that govern the ultrafast …

Chiral plasma instabilities

Y Akamatsu, N Yamamoto - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
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 …

Thermodynamics, gravitational anomalies and cones

K Jensen, R Loganayagam, A Yarom - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract By studying the Euclidean partition function on a cone, we argue that pure and
mixed gravitational anomalies generate a “Casimir momentum” which manifests itself as …