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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 98, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.036019
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资金
- Major State Basic Research Development Program (973 program) in China [2014CB845400]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11475104]
- Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province [JQ201601]
- Qilu Youth Scholar Project Funding of Shandong University
- NSFC [11675092, 11535012, 11521064]
- 973 program [2015CB856902]
- U.S. DOE [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
We develop a general formalism for the quantum kinetics of chiral fermions in a background electromagnetic field based on a semiclassical expansion of covariant Wigner functions in the Planck constant (h) over bar. We demonstrate to any order of (h) over bar that only the time-component of the Wigner function is independent while other components are explicit derivative. We further demonstrate to any order of (h) over bar that a system of quantum kinetic equations for multiple-components of Wigner functions can be reduced to one chiral kinetic equation involving only the single-component distribution function. These are remarkable properties of the quantum kinetics of chiral fermions and will significantly simplify the description and simulation of chiral effects in heavy ion collisions and Dirac/Weyl semimetals. We present the unintegrated chiral kinetic equations in four-momenta up to O((h) over bar (2)) and the integrated ones in three-momenta up to O((h) over bar). We find that some singular terms emerge in the integration over the time component of the four-momentum, which result in a new source term contributing to the chiral anomaly, in contrast to the well-known scenario of the Berry phase term. Finally we rewrite our results in any Lorentz frame with a reference four-velocity and show how the non-trivial transformation of the distribution function in different frames emerges in a natural way.
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