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Electrical Conductivity of Quark-Gluon Plasma in Strong Magnetic Fields

arXiv:1610.06818 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.114032

Abstract

We compute the electrical conductivity of quark-gluon plasma in a strong magnetic field with quantum field theory at finite temperature using the lowest Landau level approximation. We provide the one-loop result arising from 1-to-2 scattering processes whose kinematics are satisfied by the (1+1) dimensional fermion dispersion relation. Due to the chirality conservation, the conductivity diverges in the massless limit, and is sensitive to the value of the current quark mass. As a result, we find that the conductivity along the direction of the magnetic field is quite large compared with the value at , mainly because of the small value of the current quark mass. We show that the resummation of the ladder diagrams for the current-current correlator gives rise to only sub-leading contributions beyond the leading-log order, and thus verify our one-loop result at the leading-log accuracy. We also discuss possible implications for the relativistic heavy-ion collisions.

17 pages, 8 figures; v2: Ref. [33] updated; v3: Sec. VI-A largely changed, Fig. 8 added, a part mentioning Dirac semimetal in Sec. VII modified, Ref. [46] added

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