30 May 2016 to 4 June 2016
University of Wrocław
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Chiral magnetic effect and chiral kinetic theory

30 May 2016, 15:00
30m
Oratorium Marianum (University of Wrocław)

Oratorium Marianum

University of Wrocław

Main Building, plac Uniwersytecki 1

Speaker

Shi Pu (USTC, China)

Description

A power expansion scheme is set up to determine the Wigner function that satisfies the quantum kinetic equation for spin-1/2 charged fermions in a background electromagnetic field. Vector and axial-vector current induced by magnetic field and vorticity are obtained simultaneously from the Wigner function. The chiral magnetic and vortical effect and chiral anomaly are shown as natural consequences of the quantum kinetic equation. The axial-vector current induced by vorticity is argued to lead to a local polarization effect along the vorticity direction in heavy-ion collisions.

Author

Shi Pu (USTC, China)

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