The chiral magnetic eect in stronglycoupled anisotropic plasma

Ilmar Gahramanov
DESY Hamburg, Germany

Talk is based on I.G., Tigran Kalaydzhyan, Ingo Kirsch arXiv:1203.4259

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF SUBNUCLEAR PHYSICS Erice, 25 June 2012

Motivation

The chiral magnetic eect represents remarkable implications of anomalies in QFT The chiral magnetic eect is a good candidate for the explanation of an experimentally observed charge asymmetry in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC Lattice QCD results suggest the existence of the eect

Chiral magnetic eect

The CME is a hypothetical phenomenon which states that, in the presence of a magnetic eld B , an electric current is generated along B in the background of topologically nontrivial gluon elds.

j = C5 B

[Kharzeev,Fukushima,Warringa,Mclerran]

Basics of relativistic hydrodynamics

Hydrodynamics states is completely determined by conservation laws associated with some global symmetries T = 0 j = 0 In equilibrium, for ideal hydrodynamics T = ( + P )u u P g j = u

p 0.12 0.10 0.08 0.06 0.04 0.02 0.00 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 fm

plasma phase

mixed phase

hadronic gas phase v

build up of elliptic flow PT PL

Why the anisotropic case interesting?

Experimental observation: The charge separation is proportional to the elliptic ow v2 .

Anisotropic uid
Stress-energy tensor T and U (1) currents j : T = ( + PT )u u + PT g (PT PL )v v + j = u + In the rest frame 0 = 0 0 0 PT 0 0 0 0 PT 0 0 0 0 PL

In presence of anomalies one need to modify the dissipative part of the current j j + + B B
[Erdmenger,Haack,Kaminski,Yarom '08] [Son & Surowka '09]

These transport coecients can be computed exactly.

In presence of external elds

Now the energy-momentum tensor and current are not conserved

a T = F a j

j a = C abc E b B c

2nd law of thermodynamics

Positivity of the entropy production completely xes new transport coecients 2 3 + O (T 2 ) 3 + PT 1 2 B = C + O (T 2 ) 2 + PT = C 2

Two charge case

Isotropic case

[Sadofyev,Isachenkov 10]

For an anisotropic case the conductivities

= 2C5 B = C5 + PT 1 + PT 1 2 + PT 2 + 2 5 3

5,B = C 1

1+

2 5 32

We expand the CME-coecient B to linear order in p p 1 16 +P

B C5 1

Holographic principle
Holographic principle
Any theory of quantum gravity in (d + 1) dimensions has a dual description in terms of a QFT without gravity in d dimensions In its most familiar example, the AdS/CF T correspondence, the quantum theory of gravity is string theory on asymptotically AdS space, and the theory on the boundary is a conformal eld theory.

Hydrodynamic approximation
Duality between the long wavelength asymptotically AdS planar black hole solution of the EinsteinMaxwell theory with negative cosmological constant and the equations of charged uid dynamics

Gravity computation

We start from a ve-dimensional U (1)n Einstein-Maxwell theory in an asymptotic AdS space

1 16G5 Sabc a aM N b c + P KLM N Aa d5 x g [R 2 FM NF P FKL FM N ] 6 g
information about triangle anomalies

S=

Solution of the equations of motion: AdS black hole with

U (1)V U (1)A

Gravity computation
An ansatz for an anisotropic AdS black hole solution ds2 = f (r)dt2 + 2drdt + r2 (wT (r)dx2 + wT (r)dy 2 + wL (r)dz 2 ) Aa = Aa 0 (r )dt An asymptotic solution (r ) Aa 0 (r ) a

a 3q = + + O (r 8 ) 2r2 m (q a )2 f (r)/r2 = 1 4 + + O (r 8 ) r r6 a

wT (r ) = 1 +

wT + O (r 8 ) r4 (4) w wL (r ) = 1 + L + O (r 8 ) r4

(4)

Transverse and longitudinal pressures PT = PL = m 4wT 4wL m(1 + ) = 16G5 16G5 m 8wT 16G5
(4) (4) (4)

m(1 2 ) 16G5

A roadmap of computation

Vary 4-velocity and background elds up to rst order Solve equations of motion and nd the rst-order corrections Read o U (1) currents from the near-boundary expansion of the rst-order corrected background

Comparing apples to oranges

20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 0 hydrodynamics holography, numerics

wL(r+)

6 8 anisotropy

10

12

Comparing j a = 1 a Qa (r+ ) + r+ A0 (r+ )C 16G5

with the general expansion a ab j a = u u + B u Ab

The transport coecients from gravity

2 a 4 S abc b c S bcd b c d 16G5 3 + PT 4 1 a S abc c S bcd c d 16G5 2 + PT

a =

ab B =

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