7–11 Aug 2017
Stony Brook University
US/Eastern timezone

Anatomy of Chiral Magnetic Effect In and Out of Equilibrium

9 Aug 2017, 14:30
30m
Theatre (Charles B. Wang Center)

Theatre

Charles B. Wang Center

Parallel Session Parallel Session Parallel 1

Speaker

Ho-Ung Yee (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Description

We identify a new contribution to the chiral magnetic conductivity at finite frequencies-the magnetization current. This allows us to quantitatively reproduce the known field-theoretic time-dependent (AC) chiral magnetic response in terms of kinetic theory. We evaluate the corresponding AC chiral magnetic conductivity in two-flavor QCD plasma at weak coupling. The magnetization current results from the spin response of chiral quasiparticles to magnetic field, and is thus proportional to the quasiparticle’s g-factor. In condensed matter systems, where the chiral quasiparticles are emergent and the g-factor can significantly differ from 2, this opens up the possibility of tuning the AC chiral magnetic response.

Authors

Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook University) Ho-Ung Yee (University of Illinois at Chicago) Prof. Mikhail Stephanov (UIC)

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