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Title: Chiral magnetic effect in condensed matter systems

Journal Article · · Nuclear Physics. A
 [1];  [2]
  1. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States)

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.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1245403
Report Number(s):
BNL-112016-2016-JA; R&D Project: MA012MABA; KC0202050
Journal Information:
Nuclear Physics. A, Vol. 956, Issue C; ISSN 0375-9474
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 12 works
Citation information provided by
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Chiral anomaly in type-I Weyl semimetals: Comprehensive analysis within a semiclassical Fermi surface harmonics approach journal February 2019
Chiral Symmetry Restoration for Quark Matter with a Chiral Chemical Potential journal January 2017
Pseudo chiral anomaly in zigzag graphene ribbons journal October 2019

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