Quantized Chiral Magnetic Current from Reconnections of Magnetic Flux.
We introduce a new mechanism for the chiral magnetic effect that does not require an initial chirality imbalance. The chiral magnetic current is generated by reconnections of magnetic flux that change the magnetic helicity of the system. The resulting current is entirely determined by the change of magnetic helicity, and it is quantized.
Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA.
Yuji
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Hirono
Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA.|Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA.|RIKEN-BNL Research Center, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA.
Dmitri E
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Kharzeev
Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA.
Yi
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Yin