Kinetic theory with Berry curvature from quantum field theories
Abstract
A kinetic theory can be modified to incorporate triangle anomalies and the chiral magnetic effect by taking into account the Berry curvature flux through the Fermi surface. We show how such a kinetic theory can be derived from underlying quantum field theories. Using the new kinetic theory, we also compute the parity-odd correlation function that is found to be identical to the result in the perturbation theory in the next-to-leading order hard dense loop approximation.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- April 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1210.8158
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvD..87h5016S
- Keywords:
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- 11.10.Wx;
- 03.65.Vf;
- 72.10.Bg;
- Finite-temperature field theory;
- Phases: geometric;
- dynamic or topological;
- General formulation of transport theory;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 21 pages