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Anomaly/transport in an Ideal Weyl gas

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 4, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2012)097

Keywords

Holography and quark-gluon plasmas; Holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)

Funding

  1. Harvard Society of Fellows
  2. Belgian Federal Science Policy Office through the Interuniversity Attraction Pole IAP [VI/11]
  3. FWO-Vlaanderen [G011410N]

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We study some of the transport processes which are specific to an ideal gas of relativistic Weyl fermions and relate the corresponding transport coefficients to various anomaly coefficients of the system. We propose that these transport processes can be thought of as arising from the continuous injection of chiral states and their subsequent adiabatic flow driven by vorticity. This in turn leads to an elegant expression relating the anomaly induced transport coefficients to the anomaly polynomial of the Ideal Weyl gas.

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