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Anomalous transport at weak coupling

Chowdhury, Subham Dutta and David, Justin R (2015) Anomalous transport at weak coupling. In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (11).

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2015)048

Abstract

We evaluate the contribution of chiral fermions in d = 2, 4, 6, chiral bosons, a chiral gravitino like theory in d = 2 and chiral gravitinos in d = 6 to all the leading parity odd transport coefficients at one loop. This is done by using finite temperature field theory to evaluate the relevant Kubo formulae. For chiral fermions and chiral bosons the relation between the parity odd transport coefficient and the microscopic anomalies including gravitational anomalies agree with that found by using the general methods of hydrodynamics and the argument involving the consistency of the Euclidean vacuum. For the gravitino like theory in d = 2 and chiral gravitinos in d = 6, we show that relation between the pure gravitational anomaly and parity odd transport breaks down. From the perturbative calculation we clearly identify the terms that contribute to the anomaly polynomial, but not to the transport coefficient for gravitinos. We also develop a simple method for evaluating the angular integrals in the one loop diagrams involved in the Kubo formulae. Finally we show that charge diffusion mode of an ideal 2 dimensional Weyl gas in the presence of a finite chemical potential acquires a speed, which is equal to half the speed of light.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Publisher: SPRINGER
Additional Information: Copy right for this article belongs to the SPRINGER, 233 SPRING ST, NEW YORK, NY 10013 USA
Keywords: Anomalies in Field and String Theories; Field Theories in Lower Dimensions; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
Department/Centre: Division of Physical & Mathematical Sciences > Centre for High Energy Physics
Date Deposited: 06 Jan 2016 06:16
Last Modified: 06 Jan 2016 06:16
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/53049

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