Quantized Chiral Magnetic Current from Reconnections of Magnetic Flux

Yuji Hirono; Dmitri E. Kharzeev; Yi Yin

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.172301

Quantized Chiral Magnetic Current from Reconnections of Magnetic Flux

Yuji Hirono
, Dmitri E. Kharzeev
, Yi Yin

Physics and Astronomy

Brookhaven National Laboratory

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Abstract

We introduce a new mechanism for the chiral magnetic effect that does not require an initial chirality imbalance. The chiral magnetic current is generated by reconnections of magnetic flux that change the magnetic helicity of the system. The resulting current is entirely determined by the change of magnetic helicity, and it is quantized.

Original language	English
Article number	172301
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	117
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.172301
State	Published - Oct 20 2016

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