Speaker
            
    Gokce Basar
        
            (Stony Brook University)
        
    Description
I study the properties of the Euclidean Dirac equation for a light fermion in the presence of both a constant abelian magnetic field and an SU(2) instanton. In particular, I analyze the zero modes analytically in various limits, both on R^4 and on the four-torus, in order to compare with recent lattice QCD results, and study the implications for the electric dipole moment of the instanton induced by the magnetic field. I also present a holographic computation of the sphaleron rate of a strongly coupled plasma in a the presence of a constant magnetic flux and discuss its various physical implications.
            Author
        
            
                
                
                    
                        Gokce Basar
                    
                
                
                        (Stony Brook University)
                    
            
        
    
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                        Prof.
                    
                
                    
                        Dmitri Kharzeev
                    
                
                
                        (Stony Brook University)
                    
            
        
            
                
                        Prof.
                    
                
                    
                        Gerald Dunne
                    
                
                
                        (University of Connecticut)
                    
            
        
    
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