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Holographic Chiral Magnetic Conductivity

arXiv:0908.4189 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/11/085

Abstract

We present holographic computations of the time-dependent chiral magnetic conductivity in the framework of gauge/gravity correspondence. Chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current parallel to an applied magnetic field is induced in the presence of a finite axial chemical potential. Motivated by a recent weak-coupling perturbative QCD calculation, our aim is to provide a couple of complementary computations for strongly coupled regime which might be relevant for strongly coupled RHIC plasma. We take two prototypical holographic set-ups for computing chiral magnetic conductivity; the first model is Einstein gravity with U(1)_L X U(1)_R Maxwell theory, and our second set-up is based on the Sakai-Sugimoto model in a deconfined and chiral symmetry restored phase. While the former takes into account full back-reaction while the latter not, the common feature is an important role played by the appropriate 5-dimensional Chern-Simons term corresponding to the 4-dimensional axial anomaly.

30 pages, 10 figs. v2: references and acknowledgment updated, v3: references added, v4: discussion on proper definition of currents added

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