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Chiral imbalance induced by longitudinal photons in a charged magnetized QED plasma
Author(s) -
Acosta Avalo J. L.,
Pérez Rojas H.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.201512244
Subject(s) - physics , helicity , photon , quantum electrodynamics , magnetic field , plasma , quantum chromodynamics , fermion , longitudinal field , electron , debye , current (fluid) , condensed matter physics , particle physics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
We demonstrate the existence of a chiral magnetic effect in an electron‐positron magnetized gas in QED. A vector current is induced by the electric field related to the pseudo‐vector longitudinal Debye massive photon mode propagating along the external magnetic field B and separating opposite charges of the same helicity. A equation associated to the nonconservation of the axial current is obtained in a medium of massive and magnetized charged fermions. The effect is interesting in connection to the QCD chiral magnetic case reported in current literature. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)