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arxiv: 1010.0943 · v1 · pith:76YAKJECnew · submitted 2010-10-05 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Axial anomaly, Dirac sea, and the chiral magnetic effect

classification ✦ hep-ph nucl-th
keywords magneticanomalyaxialchiralcollectiveeffectmotionarbitrarily
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Gribov viewed the axial anomaly as a manifestation of the collective motion of charged fermions with arbitrarily high momenta in the vacuum. In the presence of an external magnetic field and a chirality imbalance, this collective motion becomes directly observable in the form of the electric current - this is the chiral magnetic effect (CME). I give an elementary introduction into the physics of CME, and discuss some recent developments.

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