Mapping the phases of quantum chromodynamics with beam energy scan

A Bzdak, S Esumi, V Koch, J Liao, M Stephanov, N Xu - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the present status of the search for a phase transition and critical point as well as
anomalous transport phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), with an emphasis …

Chiral magnetic and vortical effects in high-energy nuclear collisions—A status report

DE Kharzeev, JF Liao, SA Voloshin, G Wang - Progress in Particle and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The interplay of quantum anomalies with magnetic field and vorticity results in a variety of
novel non-dissipative transport phenomena in systems with chiral fermions, including the …

Strong-field physics in QED and QCD: From fundamentals to applications

K Hattori, K Itakura, S Ozaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a pedagogical review article on fundamentals and applications of the quantum
dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields in QED and QCD. The fundamentals include the …

Notes on anomaly induced transport

K Landsteiner - arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.04413, 2016 - arxiv.org
Chiral anomalies give rise to dissipationless transport phenomena such as the chiral
magnetic and vortical effects. In these notes I review the theory from a quantum field …

Causal and stable first-order chiral hydrodynamics

N Abboud, E Speranza, J Noronha - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We derive the set of inequalities that is necessary and sufficient for nonlinear causality and
linear stability of first-order relativistic hydrodynamics with either a U (1) V conserved current …

Status of the chiral magnetic effect and collisions of isobars

V Koch, S Schlichting, V Skokov, P Sorensen… - Chinese …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we examine the current theoretical and experimental status of the chiral
magnetic effect. We discuss possible future strategies for resolving uncertainties in …

Quantifying the chiral magnetic effect from anomalous-viscous fluid dynamics

Y Jiang, S Shi, Y Yin, J Liao - Chinese Physics C, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) is a macroscopic manifestation of fundamental
chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as an anomalous …

Quantum kinetic theory of spin polarization of massive quarks in perturbative QCD: leading log

S Li, HU Yee - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We present the quantum kinetic equation for the spin polarization of massive quarks in
leading-log order of perturbative QCD, which describes time evolution of the spin density …

Worldline construction of a covariant chiral kinetic theory

N Mueller, R Venugopalan - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We discuss a novel worldline framework for computations of the chiral magnetic effect (CME)
in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Starting from the fermion determinant in the QCD …

Chiral anomaly, Berry phase, and chiral kinetic theory from worldlines in quantum field theory

N Mueller, R Venugopalan - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
In previous work, we outlined a worldline framework that can be used for systematic
computations of the chiral magnetic effect (CME) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions …