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Ammon, Martin

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Chiral hydrodynamics in strong external magnetic fields

We construct the general hydrodynamic description of (3+1)-dimensional chiral charged (quantum) fluids subject to a strong external magnetic field with effective field theory methods. We determine the constitutive equations for the energy-momentum tensor and the axial charge current, in part from a generating functional. Furthermore, we derive the Kubo formulas which relate two-point functions of the energy-momentum tensor and charge current to 27 transport coefficients: 8 independent thermodynamic, 4 independent non-dissipative hydrodynamic, and 10 independent dissipative hydrodynamic transport coefficients. Five Onsager relations render 5 more transport coefficients dependent. We uncover four novel transport effects, which are encoded in what we call the shear-induced conductivity, the two expansion-induced longitudinal conductivities and the shear-induced Hall conductivity. Remarkably, the shear-induced Hall conductivity constitutes a novel non-dissipative transport effect. As a demonstration, we compute all transport coefficients explicitly in a strongly coupled quantum fluid via holography.

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSIC↗

Scalar fields in 3D asymptotically flat higher-spin gravity

Abstract In this work we construct a novel associative algebra and use it to define a theory of higher-spin gravity in (2 + 1)-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes. Our construction is based on a quotient of the universal enveloping algebra of i s l ( 2 , R ) with respect to the ideal generated by its Casimir elements, the mass squared M 2 and the three-dimensional analogue of the square of the Pauli–Lubanski vector S and propose to call the resulting associative algebra i h s ( M 2 , S ) . We provide a definition of its generators and even though we are not yet able to provide the complete set of multiplication rules of this algebra our analysis allows us to study many interesting and relevant sub-structures of i h s ( M 2 , S ) . We then show how to consistently couple a scalar field to an i h s ( M 2 , S ) higher-spin gauge theory.

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