Holographic Anomalous Conductivities and the Chiral Magnetic Effect
May, 2010
18 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 02 (2011) 110
e-Print:
- 1005.2587 [hep-th]
Report number:
- IFT-UAM-CSIC-10-35
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We calculate anomaly induced conductivities from a holographic gauge theory model using Kubo formulas, making a clear conceptual distinction between thermodynamic state variables such as chemical potentials and external background fields. This allows us to pinpoint ambiguities in previous holographic calculations of the chiral magnetic conductivity. We also calculate the corresponding anomalous current three-point functions in special kinematic regimes. We compare the holographic results to weak coupling calculations using both dimensional regularization and cutoff regularization. In order to reproduce the weak coupling results it is necessary to allow for singular holographic gauge field configurations when a chiral chemical potential is introduced for a chiral charge defined through a gauge invariant but non-conserved chiral density. We argue that this is appropriate for actually addressing charge separation due to the chiral magnetic effect.Note:
- 17 pages, 1 figure. v2: 18 pages, 1 figure, discussion clarified throughout the text, references added, version accepted for publication in JHEP
- Gauge-gravity correspondence
- Chiral Lagrangians
- QCD
- magnetic field: chiral
- potential: chemical
- effect: magnetic
- charge: chiral
- regularization
- gauge field theory
- n-point function: 3
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