The Chiral Heat Effect

2011/09/30 by Taro Kimura, Tatsuma Nishioka · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Anomaly (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Chiral anomaly #Condensed matter physics #Conformal anomaly #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #Spacetime #Theoretical physics #Thermal #Thermodynamics #Torsion (gastropod) #Transverse plane #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1143/ptp.127.1009

published as Prog. Theor. Phys. 127 (2012) 1009-1017 · 11 pages; font error corrected; published version

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Abstract

We consider the thermal response of a (3 + 1)-dimensional theory with a chiral anomaly on a curved space motivated by the chiral magnetic effect. We find a new phenomenon, called the chiral heat effect, such that the thermal current is induced transverse to a gradient of the temperature even on a flat space. We study a similar topological effect on the spacetime with a torsion.

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