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| author | Xavier, Praveen D. Zubkov, M. A. |
| author_facet | Xavier, Praveen D. Zubkov, M. A. |
| contents | We consider the chiral anomaly for systems with a wide class of Hermitian Dirac operators ${Q}$ in 4D Euclidean spacetime. We suppose that $ Q$ is not necessarily linear in derivatives and also that it contains a coordinate inhomogeneity unrelated to that of the external gauge field. We use the covariant Wigner-Weyl calculus (in which the Wigner transformed two point Greens function belongs to the two-index tensor representation of the gauge group) and point splitting regularization to calculate the global expression for the anomaly. The Atiyah-Singer theorem can be applied to relate the anomaly to the topological index of $ Q$. We show that the topological index factorizes (under certain assumptions) into the topological invariant $\frac{1}{8π^2}\int \text{tr}(F\wedge F)$ (composed of the gauge field strength) multiplied by a topological invariant $N_3$ in phase space. The latter is responsible for the topological stability of Fermi points/Fermi surfaces and is related to the conductivity of the chiral separation effect. |
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| spellingShingle | Chiral anomaly in inhomogeneous systems with nontrivial momentum space topology Xavier, Praveen D. Zubkov, M. A. High Energy Physics - Theory We consider the chiral anomaly for systems with a wide class of Hermitian Dirac operators ${Q}$ in 4D Euclidean spacetime. We suppose that $ Q$ is not necessarily linear in derivatives and also that it contains a coordinate inhomogeneity unrelated to that of the external gauge field. We use the covariant Wigner-Weyl calculus (in which the Wigner transformed two point Greens function belongs to the two-index tensor representation of the gauge group) and point splitting regularization to calculate the global expression for the anomaly. The Atiyah-Singer theorem can be applied to relate the anomaly to the topological index of $ Q$. We show that the topological index factorizes (under certain assumptions) into the topological invariant $\frac{1}{8π^2}\int \text{tr}(F\wedge F)$ (composed of the gauge field strength) multiplied by a topological invariant $N_3$ in phase space. The latter is responsible for the topological stability of Fermi points/Fermi surfaces and is related to the conductivity of the chiral separation effect. |
| title | Chiral anomaly in inhomogeneous systems with nontrivial momentum space topology |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05066 |