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Views of the Chiral Magnetic Effect

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Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 871))

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My personal views of the Chiral Magnetic Effect are presented, which starts with a story about how we came up with the electric-current formula and continues to unsettled subtleties in the formula. There are desirable features in the formula of the Chiral Magnetic Effect but some considerations would lead us to even more questions than elucidations. The interpretation of the produced current is indeed very non-trivial and it involves a lot of confusions that have not been resolved.

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Acknowledgements

The author would like to express his sincere thanks to his collaborators, Dima Kharzeev, Kazuya Mameda, and Harmen Warringa. The contents of this article are based on the fruitful collaboration with them. Especially, this article is dedicated to Harmen Warringa, who inspired me enough to initiate my working on the Chiral Magnetic Effect. Harmen’s contribution to physics of the Chiral Magnetic Effect should be memorable as long as the CME-related physics is of our interest. The author is also grateful to Tigran Kalaydzhyan, Dima Kharzeev, Toni Rebhan, Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Igor Shovkovy for useful comments on this article.

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    Kenji Fukushima

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Fukushima, K. (2013). Views of the Chiral Magnetic Effect. In: Kharzeev, D., Landsteiner, K., Schmitt, A., Yee, HU. (eds) Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 871. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37305-3_9

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