Helical Separation Effect and helical heat transport for Dirac fermions

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Autori principali: Ambruş, Victor E., Chernodub, Maxim N.
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author Ambruş, Victor E.
Chernodub, Maxim N.
author_facet Ambruş, Victor E.
Chernodub, Maxim N.
contents An ensemble of massless fermions can be characterized by its total helicity charge given by the sum of axial charges of particles minus the sum of axial charges of antiparticles. We show that charged massless fermions develop a dissipationless flow of helicity along the background magnetic field. We dub this transport phenomenon as the Helical Separation Effect (HSE). Contrary to its chiral cousin, the Chiral Separation Effect, the HSE produces the helical current in a neutral plasma in which all chemical potentials vanish. In addition, we uncover the Helical Magnetic Heat Effect which generates a heat flux of Dirac fermions along the magnetic field in the presence of non-vanishing helical charge density. We also discuss possible hydrodynamic modes associated with the HSE in neutral plasma.
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spellingShingle Helical Separation Effect and helical heat transport for Dirac fermions
Ambruş, Victor E.
Chernodub, Maxim N.
High Energy Physics - Theory
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Nuclear Theory
An ensemble of massless fermions can be characterized by its total helicity charge given by the sum of axial charges of particles minus the sum of axial charges of antiparticles. We show that charged massless fermions develop a dissipationless flow of helicity along the background magnetic field. We dub this transport phenomenon as the Helical Separation Effect (HSE). Contrary to its chiral cousin, the Chiral Separation Effect, the HSE produces the helical current in a neutral plasma in which all chemical potentials vanish. In addition, we uncover the Helical Magnetic Heat Effect which generates a heat flux of Dirac fermions along the magnetic field in the presence of non-vanishing helical charge density. We also discuss possible hydrodynamic modes associated with the HSE in neutral plasma.
title Helical Separation Effect and helical heat transport for Dirac fermions
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14987