Chiral magnetic effect in condensed matter systems
Abstract
The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electrical current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions. In the quark-gluon plasma, the axial anomaly induces topological charge changing transition that results in the generation of electrical current along the magnetic field. In condensed matter systems, the chiral magnetic effect was first predicted in the gapless semiconductors with tow energy bands having pointlike degeneracies. In addition, thirty years later after this prediction, the chiral magnetic effect was finally observed in the 3D Dirac/Weyl semimetals.
- Authors:
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- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1245403
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-112016-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 0375-9474; R&D Project: MA012MABA; KC0202050
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Physics. A
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 956; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0375-9474
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
Citation Formats
Li, Qiang, and Kharzeev, Dmitri E. Chiral magnetic effect in condensed matter systems. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.03.055.
Li, Qiang, & Kharzeev, Dmitri E. Chiral magnetic effect in condensed matter systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.03.055
Li, Qiang, and Kharzeev, Dmitri E. 2016.
"Chiral magnetic effect in condensed matter systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2016.03.055. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1245403.
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abstractNote = {The chiral magnetic effect is the generation of electrical current induced by chirality imbalance in the presence of magnetic field. It is a macroscopic manifestation of the quantum anomaly in relativistic field theory of chiral fermions. In the quark-gluon plasma, the axial anomaly induces topological charge changing transition that results in the generation of electrical current along the magnetic field. In condensed matter systems, the chiral magnetic effect was first predicted in the gapless semiconductors with tow energy bands having pointlike degeneracies. In addition, thirty years later after this prediction, the chiral magnetic effect was finally observed in the 3D Dirac/Weyl semimetals.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016}
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