The 8th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Quantum Matter

Anomalous Hall instability in chiral magnetohydrodynamics (online)

26 juil. 2024, 15:00

30m

Amphitheater A11 (West University of Timisoara)

On-line talk Hydrodynamics

Orateur

Shuai Wang

Description

The quark gluon plasma(QGP) is expected to exhibit a chiral imbalance known as the chiral anomaly which induces various anomalous currents, such as: the chiral magnetic effect(CME), the chiral vortical effect(CVE), the anomalous Hall effect(AHE) and so on. To describe these anomalous effects, one can use the chiral magnetohydrodynamics (CMHD).

We study the collective excitations and instabilities in a CMHD and focus on the anomalous Hall instability(AHI) which is due to the AHE in this talk.

Like the CME’s instability, the AHI is dependent on the value of k and appears in a limited scope which is decided by the AHE coefficient ${\xi }_H$. Notably, the AHE does not trigger an instability by itself in a pure electrodynamic context without fluid, but it does in the CMHD. For small |k| expansion, we show that the Alfven wave modified by the AHE leads to an unstable solution. In particular, one can introduce an axion
field $\theta (x)$ which interacts with the electromagnetic field in the form of $\theta E\cdot B$, to reproduce the AHE $\mathrm{\nabla }\theta \times E$, the chiral chemical potential ${\mu }_5(x)\equiv {\partial }_t\theta$, where $E,B$ are electric and magnetic fields, the AHE coefficient is ${\xi }_H\equiv \mathrm{\nabla }\theta$. Because the AHI happens in a small scope and the total helicity is conserved, these give rise to a novel type of inverse cascade: the fermionic helicity will be transferred to various helicities of the small |k| modes. Then the AHI ceases eventually by depleting the value of ${\mu }_5,{\xi }_H$.

Finally, we briefly discuss three different instabilities such as: the chiral plasma instability(CPI), the chiral magnetovortical instability(CMVI), the AHI and the possible relevance in QGP and other physical systems.

Documents de présentation

8th-chirality-AHI-Shuai Wang.pdf