Quark interactions with topological gluon fields in quantum chromodynamics can yield local P and CP violations that could explain the matter–antimatter asymmetry in our universe. Effects of P and CP violations can le...Quark interactions with topological gluon fields in quantum chromodynamics can yield local P and CP violations that could explain the matter–antimatter asymmetry in our universe. Effects of P and CP violations can lead to charge separation under a strong magnetic field, a phenomenon called the chiral magnetic effect(CME).Early measurements of the CME-induced charge separation in heavy ion collisions are dominated by physics backgrounds. This report discusses the recent innovative efforts in eliminating those backgrounds, namely by eventshape engineering, invariant mass dependence, and reaction and participant plane comparison. The backgroundfree CME measurements using these novel methods are presented.展开更多
We investigate asymmetric spin wave scattering behaviors caused by vortex chirality in a cross-shaped ferromagnetic system by using the micromagnetic simulations.In the system,four scattering behaviors are found:(i)as...We investigate asymmetric spin wave scattering behaviors caused by vortex chirality in a cross-shaped ferromagnetic system by using the micromagnetic simulations.In the system,four scattering behaviors are found:(i)asymmetric skew scattering,depending on the polarity of vortex core,(ii)back scattering(reflection),depending on the vortex core stiffness,(iii)side deflection scattering,depending on structural symmetry of the vortex circulation,and(iv)geometrical scattering,depending on waveguide structure.The first and second scattering behaviors are attributed to nonlinear topological magnon spin Hall effect related to magnon spin-transfer torque effect,which has value for magnonic exploration and application.展开更多
The magnetic field plays a major role in searching for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. If the lifetime of the magnetic field is too short, as predicted by simulations of the field in v...The magnetic field plays a major role in searching for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. If the lifetime of the magnetic field is too short, as predicted by simulations of the field in vacuum, the chiral magnetic effect will be largely suppressed. However, the lifetime of the magnetic field will become longer when the QGP medium response is considered. We give an estimate of the effect, especially considering the magnetic field response of the QGP medium, and compare it with the experimental results for the background-subtracted correlator H at RHIC and LHC energies. The results show that our method explains the experimental results better at the top RHIC energy than at the LHC energy.展开更多
Considering the magnetic field response of the QGP medium,we perform a systematical study of the chiral magnetic effect(CME),and make a comparison with the experimental results for the background-subtracted correlator...Considering the magnetic field response of the QGP medium,we perform a systematical study of the chiral magnetic effect(CME),and make a comparison with the experimental results for the background-subtracted correlator H at the energies of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan(BES)and the LHC energy.The CME signals from our computations show a centrality trend and beam energy dependence that are qualitatively consistent with the experimental measurements of the charge dependent correlations.The time evolution of the chiral electromagnetic current at the RHIC and LHC energies is systematically studied.The dependence of the time-integrated current signal on the beam energy√s with different centralities is investigated.Our phenomenological analysis shows that the time-integrated electromagnetic current is maximal near the collision energy√s≈39 GeV.The qualitative trend of the induced electromagnetic current is in agreement with the CME experimental results at the RHIC and LHC energies.展开更多
Magnetic skyrmion tubes and bobbers are two types of different nanoscale spin configurations that can coexist in nanostructures of chiral magnets.They are then proposed to be utilized as binary bits to build racetrack...Magnetic skyrmion tubes and bobbers are two types of different nanoscale spin configurations that can coexist in nanostructures of chiral magnets.They are then proposed to be utilized as binary bits to build racetrack memory devices.The ability to manipulate the two magnetic objects controllably by current in nanostructures is the prerequisite to realize the device.Here,we demonstrate by numerical simulations that a magnetic bobber and a skyrmion tube can be transformed to each other using spinpolarized current in nanostripes with stepped shape.We also show such stepped nanostructures can be readily applied as the write head for the skyrmion-bobber-based racetrack memory.展开更多
We propose a novel method to search for the chiral magnetic effect(cme) in heavy ion collisions.We argue that the relative strength of the magnetic field(mainly from spectator protons and responsible for the cme)w...We propose a novel method to search for the chiral magnetic effect(cme) in heavy ion collisions.We argue that the relative strength of the magnetic field(mainly from spectator protons and responsible for the cme)with respect to the reaction plane and the participant plane is opposite to that of the elliptic flow background arising from the fluctuating participant geometry.This opposite behavior in a single collision system,hence with small systematic uncertainties,can be exploited to extract the possible cme signal from the flow background.The method is applied to existing data from rhic,and the outcome discussed.展开更多
The chiral magnetic effect(CME)is a novel transport phenomenon,arising from the interplay between quantum anomalies and strong magnetic fields in chiral systems.In high-energy nuclear collisions,the CME may survive th...The chiral magnetic effect(CME)is a novel transport phenomenon,arising from the interplay between quantum anomalies and strong magnetic fields in chiral systems.In high-energy nuclear collisions,the CME may survive the expansion of the quark-gluon plasma fireball and be detected in experiments.Over the past two decades,experimental searches for the CME have attracted extensive interest at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(RHIC)and the Large Hadron Collider(LHC).The main goal of this study is to investigate three pertinent experimental approaches:the$\gamma$correlator,the R correlator,and the signed balance functions.We exploit simple Monte Carlo simulations and a realistic event generator(EBE-AVFD)to verify the equivalence of the core components among these methods and to ascertain their sensitivities to the CME signal and the background contributions for the isobar collisions at the RHIC.展开更多
We studied the chiral magnetic effect in AuAu,RuRu,and ZrZr collisions at sNN−√=200GeV.The axial charge evolution was modeled with stochastic hydrodynamics,and geometrical quantities were calculated with the Monte Ca...We studied the chiral magnetic effect in AuAu,RuRu,and ZrZr collisions at sNN−√=200GeV.The axial charge evolution was modeled with stochastic hydrodynamics,and geometrical quantities were calculated with the Monte Carlo Glauber model.By adjusting the relaxation time of the magnetic field,we found our results are in good agreement with background subtracted data for AuAu collisions at the same energy.We also made predictions for RuRu and ZrZr collisions.We found a weak centrality dependence on initial chiral imbalance,which implies that the centrality dependence of chiral magnetic effect signals results mainly from the effects of the magnetic field and volume factor.Furthermore,our results show an unexpected dependence on system size.While the AuAu system has larger chiral imbalance and magnetic field,it was observed to have a smaller signal for the chiral magnetic effect due to the larger volume suppression factor.展开更多
In this review, we examine the current theoretical and experimental status of the chiral magnetic effect.We discuss possible future strategies for resolving uncertainties in interpretation including recommendations fo...In this review, we examine the current theoretical and experimental status of the chiral magnetic effect.We discuss possible future strategies for resolving uncertainties in interpretation including recommendations for theoretical work, recommendations for measurements based on data collected in the past five years, and recommendations for beam use in the coming years of RHIC. We specifically investigate the case for colliding nuclear isobars(nuclei with the same mass but different charge) and find the case compelling. We recommend that a program of nuclear isobar collisions to isolate the chiral magnetic effect from background sources be placed as a high priority item in the strategy for completing the RHIC mission.展开更多
The Chiral Magnetic Effect(CME) is a macroscopic manifestation of fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as an anomalous transport current in the fluid dynamics framework. E...The Chiral Magnetic Effect(CME) is a macroscopic manifestation of fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as an anomalous transport current in the fluid dynamics framework. Experimental observation of the CME is of great interest and has been reported in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Significant efforts have also been made to look for the CME in heavy ion collisions. Critically needed for such a search is the theoretical prediction for the CME signal. In this paper we report a first quantitative modeling framework, Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics(AVFD), which computes the evolution of fermion currents on top of realistic bulk evolution in heavy ion collisions and simultaneously accounts for both anomalous and normal viscous transport effects. AVFD allows a quantitative understanding of the generation and evolution of CME-induced charge separation during the hydrodynamic stage, as well as its dependence on theoretical ingredients. With reasonable estimates of key parameters, the AVFD simulations provide the first phenomenologically successful explanation of the measured signal in 200 AGe V Au Au collisions.展开更多
The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of transition metal doped platinum clusters MPt6 (M=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) are systematically studied by using the relativistic all-electron de...The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of transition metal doped platinum clusters MPt6 (M=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) are systematically studied by using the relativistic all-electron density functional theory with the generalized gradient approximation. Most of the doped clusters show larger binding energies than the pure Pt7 cluster, which indicates that the doping of the transition metal atom can stabilize the pure platinum cluster. The results of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) gaps suggest that the doped clusters can have higher chemical activities than the pure Pt7 cluster. The magnetism calculations demonstrate that the variation range of the magnetic moments of the MPt6 clusters is from 0 μB to 7 μB, revealing that the MPt6 clusters have potential utility in designing new spintronic nanomaterials with tunable magnetic properties.展开更多
We report on our results about spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking for quark matter in the background of static and homogeneous parallel electric field,E,and magnetic field,B.A Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model is used to c...We report on our results about spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking for quark matter in the background of static and homogeneous parallel electric field,E,and magnetic field,B.A Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model is used to compute the dependence of the chiral condensate at finite temperature,E and B.We study the effect of this background on inverse catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking for E and B of the same order of magnitude.We also consider the effect of equilibration of chiral density,n_5,produced by axial anomaly on the critical temperature.The equilibration of n_5 allows for the introduction of the chiral chemical potential,u_5,which is computed selfconsistently as a function of temperature and field strength.We find that even if the chiral medium is produced by the fields the thermodynamics,with particular reference to the inverse catalysis induced by the external fields,it is not very affected by n_5 at least if the average u_5,at equilibrium is not too large.展开更多
The attempt to study magnetism in (n,m) chiral space of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with embedded metal cluster is presented. Co13 metallic cluster inside zigzag and chiral single-walled nanotubes was inves...The attempt to study magnetism in (n,m) chiral space of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with embedded metal cluster is presented. Co13 metallic cluster inside zigzag and chiral single-walled nanotubes was investigated using density functional theory (DFT). Magnetic properties of the endohedral nanotubes with the various chiral index (n,m) were characterized by calculation of the total spin magnetic moment (S). The dependence of S on the chiral symmetry of nanotubes, as well as the orientation of Co13 cluster within nanotubes was found. Longitudinal orientation of icosahedral Co13 cluster was preferable for magnetization in general. However, it was shown that the magnetic landscape M = f(n,m) of endohedral nanotubes is very complex and sharp.展开更多
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark–gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic(EM)and fluid vortical fields.The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomen...Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark–gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic(EM)and fluid vortical fields.The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as chiral magnetic,chiral separation,chiral electric separation,and chiral vortical effects as well as the spin polarization of hadrons.These phenomena provide us with experimentally feasible means to study the nontrivial topological sector of quantum chromodynamics,the possible parity violation of strong interaction at high temperature,and the subatomic spintronics of quark–gluon plasma.These studies,both in theory and in experiments,are strongly connected with other subfields of physics such as condensed matter physics,astrophysics,and cold atomic physics,and thus form an emerging interdisciplinary research area.We give an introduction to the aforementioned phenomena induced by the EM field and vorticity and an overview of the current status of experimental research in heavy-ion collisions.We also briefly discuss spin hydrodynamics as well as chiral and spin kinetic theories.展开更多
We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions.We present updated experimental results for the chiral magneti...We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions.We present updated experimental results for the chiral magnetic effect and related phenomena.The time evolution of the magnetic fields in different models is discussed.The newly developed quantum kinetic theory for massive fermions is reviewed.We present theoretical and experimental results for the polarization of K hyperons and the q00 value of vector mesons.展开更多
We review the recent progress on the magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnetic materials. The magnetic skyrmion is a topological spin configuration with localized spatial extent, which could be thought of as an emergent r...We review the recent progress on the magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnetic materials. The magnetic skyrmion is a topological spin configuration with localized spatial extent, which could be thought of as an emergent rigid particle, owing to its particular topological and chiral properties. Static skyrmionic configurations have been found in various materials with different transport and thermodynamic properties. The magnetic skyrmions respond to externally applied fields in a very unique way, and their coupling to other quasiparticles in solid-state systems gives rise to the emergent electrodynamics.Being not only theoretically important, the magnetic skyrmion is also very promising to be the information carrier in next generation spintronic devices.展开更多
The ratio between the anomalous magnetic moments of proton and neutron has recently been suggested to be connected to the ratio of proton momentum fractions carried by the valence quarks inside it. This moment fractio...The ratio between the anomalous magnetic moments of proton and neutron has recently been suggested to be connected to the ratio of proton momentum fractions carried by the valence quarks inside it. This moment fraction ratio is respectively evaluated by using constituent quark model and chiral quark model in order to check meson cloud effect. Our results show that the meson cloud effect is remarkable to the ratio of the proton momentum fractions, and therefore, this ratiois a sensitive test for the meson cloud effect as well as for the SU(6) symmetry breaking effect.展开更多
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11747312)the U.S.Department of Energy(No.de-sc0012910)
文摘Quark interactions with topological gluon fields in quantum chromodynamics can yield local P and CP violations that could explain the matter–antimatter asymmetry in our universe. Effects of P and CP violations can lead to charge separation under a strong magnetic field, a phenomenon called the chiral magnetic effect(CME).Early measurements of the CME-induced charge separation in heavy ion collisions are dominated by physics backgrounds. This report discusses the recent innovative efforts in eliminating those backgrounds, namely by eventshape engineering, invariant mass dependence, and reaction and participant plane comparison. The backgroundfree CME measurements using these novel methods are presented.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.10425521,10675007,10935001the Major State Basic Research Development Program under Grant No.G2007CB815000the Financial Support from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation No.20090460534
基金Project supported by the Basic Science Research Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea(Grant No.2021R1F1A1050539)the Yanbian University Research Project(Grant No.482022104)the Yichang Natural Science Research Project(Grant No.A22-3-010)。
文摘We investigate asymmetric spin wave scattering behaviors caused by vortex chirality in a cross-shaped ferromagnetic system by using the micromagnetic simulations.In the system,four scattering behaviors are found:(i)asymmetric skew scattering,depending on the polarity of vortex core,(ii)back scattering(reflection),depending on the vortex core stiffness,(iii)side deflection scattering,depending on structural symmetry of the vortex circulation,and(iv)geometrical scattering,depending on waveguide structure.The first and second scattering behaviors are attributed to nonlinear topological magnon spin Hall effect related to magnon spin-transfer torque effect,which has value for magnonic exploration and application.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(11747115,11475068)the CCNU-QLPL Innovation Fund(QLPL2016P01)the Excellent Youth Foundation of Hubei Scientific Committee(2006ABB036)
文摘The magnetic field plays a major role in searching for the chiral magnetic effect in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. If the lifetime of the magnetic field is too short, as predicted by simulations of the field in vacuum, the chiral magnetic effect will be largely suppressed. However, the lifetime of the magnetic field will become longer when the QGP medium response is considered. We give an estimate of the effect, especially considering the magnetic field response of the QGP medium, and compare it with the experimental results for the background-subtracted correlator H at RHIC and LHC energies. The results show that our method explains the experimental results better at the top RHIC energy than at the LHC energy.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(11875178,11475068,11747115)the CCNU-QLPL Innovation Fund(QLPL2016P01) the Excellent Youth Foundation of Hubei Scientific Committee(2006ABB036)
文摘Considering the magnetic field response of the QGP medium,we perform a systematical study of the chiral magnetic effect(CME),and make a comparison with the experimental results for the background-subtracted correlator H at the energies of the RHIC Beam Energy Scan(BES)and the LHC energy.The CME signals from our computations show a centrality trend and beam energy dependence that are qualitatively consistent with the experimental measurements of the charge dependent correlations.The time evolution of the chiral electromagnetic current at the RHIC and LHC energies is systematically studied.The dependence of the time-integrated current signal on the beam energy√s with different centralities is investigated.Our phenomenological analysis shows that the time-integrated electromagnetic current is maximal near the collision energy√s≈39 GeV.The qualitative trend of the induced electromagnetic current is in agreement with the CME experimental results at the RHIC and LHC energies.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11804343,and 11974021)the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KJZD-SW-M01)。
文摘Magnetic skyrmion tubes and bobbers are two types of different nanoscale spin configurations that can coexist in nanostructures of chiral magnets.They are then proposed to be utilized as binary bits to build racetrack memory devices.The ability to manipulate the two magnetic objects controllably by current in nanostructures is the prerequisite to realize the device.Here,we demonstrate by numerical simulations that a magnetic bobber and a skyrmion tube can be transformed to each other using spinpolarized current in nanostripes with stepped shape.We also show such stepped nanostructures can be readily applied as the write head for the skyrmion-bobber-based racetrack memory.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(11647306,11747312,U1732138,11505056,11605054,11628508)US Department of Energy(DE-SC0012910)
文摘We propose a novel method to search for the chiral magnetic effect(cme) in heavy ion collisions.We argue that the relative strength of the magnetic field(mainly from spectator protons and responsible for the cme)with respect to the reaction plane and the participant plane is opposite to that of the elliptic flow background arising from the fluctuating participant geometry.This opposite behavior in a single collision system,hence with small systematic uncertainties,can be exploited to extract the possible cme signal from the flow background.The method is applied to existing data from rhic,and the outcome discussed.
基金Supported by the US Department of Energy(DE-AC02-98CH10886,DE-FG02-89ER40531,DE-FG02-92ER40713,DE-FG02-88ER40424,DE-SC0012910,DE-SC0013391,DE-SC0020651)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12025501,11905059,12075085)+6 种基金the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Science with(XDB34030200)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(CCNU19ZN019)the Ministry of Science and Technology(MoST)(2016YFE0104800)the China Scholarship Council(CSC),Join Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of NSFC and CAS(U2032110)the U.S.Department of Energy,Office of Science,Office of Nuclear Physics,within the framework of the Beam Energy Scan Theory(BEST)Topical Collaborationthe U.S.National Science Foundation(PHY-1913729)the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada,the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Nature et technologies(FRQNT)through the Programmede Bourses d'ExcellencepourÉtudiantsÉtrangers(PBEEE)。
文摘The chiral magnetic effect(CME)is a novel transport phenomenon,arising from the interplay between quantum anomalies and strong magnetic fields in chiral systems.In high-energy nuclear collisions,the CME may survive the expansion of the quark-gluon plasma fireball and be detected in experiments.Over the past two decades,experimental searches for the CME have attracted extensive interest at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider(RHIC)and the Large Hadron Collider(LHC).The main goal of this study is to investigate three pertinent experimental approaches:the$\gamma$correlator,the R correlator,and the signed balance functions.We exploit simple Monte Carlo simulations and a realistic event generator(EBE-AVFD)to verify the equivalence of the core components among these methods and to ascertain their sensitivities to the CME signal and the background contributions for the isobar collisions at the RHIC.
基金Supported by International Program for Ph.D Candidates,Sun Yat-Sen University,the National Science Foundation(PHY-1913729)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11675274,11735007)the Shang-hai Pujiang Program(19PJ1401400)。
文摘We studied the chiral magnetic effect in AuAu,RuRu,and ZrZr collisions at sNN−√=200GeV.The axial charge evolution was modeled with stochastic hydrodynamics,and geometrical quantities were calculated with the Monte Carlo Glauber model.By adjusting the relaxation time of the magnetic field,we found our results are in good agreement with background subtracted data for AuAu collisions at the same energy.We also made predictions for RuRu and ZrZr collisions.We found a weak centrality dependence on initial chiral imbalance,which implies that the centrality dependence of chiral magnetic effect signals results mainly from the effects of the magnetic field and volume factor.Furthermore,our results show an unexpected dependence on system size.While the AuAu system has larger chiral imbalance and magnetic field,it was observed to have a smaller signal for the chiral magnetic effect due to the larger volume suppression factor.
文摘In this review, we examine the current theoretical and experimental status of the chiral magnetic effect.We discuss possible future strategies for resolving uncertainties in interpretation including recommendations for theoretical work, recommendations for measurements based on data collected in the past five years, and recommendations for beam use in the coming years of RHIC. We specifically investigate the case for colliding nuclear isobars(nuclei with the same mass but different charge) and find the case compelling. We recommend that a program of nuclear isobar collisions to isolate the chiral magnetic effect from background sources be placed as a high priority item in the strategy for completing the RHIC mission.
基金supported by the U.S.Department of Energy,Office of Science,Office of Nuclear Physics,within the framework of the Beam Energy Scan Theory(BEST)Topical Collaborationsupported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.PHY-1352368(SS and JL)+4 种基金by the National Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11735007(JL)by the U.S.Department of Energy under grant Contract Number No.DE-SC0012704(BNL)/DE-SC0011090(MIT)(YY)the Institute for Nuclear Theory for hospitality during the INT-16-3 Programperformed on IU’s Big Red Ⅱ cluster,supported in part by Lilly Endowment,Inc.(through its support for the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute)in part by the Indiana METACyt Initiative
文摘The Chiral Magnetic Effect(CME) is a macroscopic manifestation of fundamental chiral anomaly in a many-body system of chiral fermions, and emerges as an anomalous transport current in the fluid dynamics framework. Experimental observation of the CME is of great interest and has been reported in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. Significant efforts have also been made to look for the CME in heavy ion collisions. Critically needed for such a search is the theoretical prediction for the CME signal. In this paper we report a first quantitative modeling framework, Anomalous Viscous Fluid Dynamics(AVFD), which computes the evolution of fermion currents on top of realistic bulk evolution in heavy ion collisions and simultaneously accounts for both anomalous and normal viscous transport effects. AVFD allows a quantitative understanding of the generation and evolution of CME-induced charge separation during the hydrodynamic stage, as well as its dependence on theoretical ingredients. With reasonable estimates of key parameters, the AVFD simulations provide the first phenomenologically successful explanation of the measured signal in 200 AGe V Au Au collisions.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51072072)the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China (Grant No. BK2010343)
文摘The structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of transition metal doped platinum clusters MPt6 (M=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, and Zn) are systematically studied by using the relativistic all-electron density functional theory with the generalized gradient approximation. Most of the doped clusters show larger binding energies than the pure Pt7 cluster, which indicates that the doping of the transition metal atom can stabilize the pure platinum cluster. The results of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) gaps suggest that the doped clusters can have higher chemical activities than the pure Pt7 cluster. The magnetism calculations demonstrate that the variation range of the magnetic moments of the MPt6 clusters is from 0 μB to 7 μB, revealing that the MPt6 clusters have potential utility in designing new spintronic nanomaterials with tunable magnetic properties.
基金supported by the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative(No.2015PM008)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11135011 and 11575190)
文摘We report on our results about spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking for quark matter in the background of static and homogeneous parallel electric field,E,and magnetic field,B.A Nambu–Jona–Lasinio model is used to compute the dependence of the chiral condensate at finite temperature,E and B.We study the effect of this background on inverse catalysis of chiral symmetry breaking for E and B of the same order of magnitude.We also consider the effect of equilibration of chiral density,n_5,produced by axial anomaly on the critical temperature.The equilibration of n_5 allows for the introduction of the chiral chemical potential,u_5,which is computed selfconsistently as a function of temperature and field strength.We find that even if the chiral medium is produced by the fields the thermodynamics,with particular reference to the inverse catalysis induced by the external fields,it is not very affected by n_5 at least if the average u_5,at equilibrium is not too large.
文摘The attempt to study magnetism in (n,m) chiral space of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with embedded metal cluster is presented. Co13 metallic cluster inside zigzag and chiral single-walled nanotubes was investigated using density functional theory (DFT). Magnetic properties of the endohedral nanotubes with the various chiral index (n,m) were characterized by calculation of the total spin magnetic moment (S). The dependence of S on the chiral symmetry of nanotubes, as well as the orientation of Co13 cluster within nanotubes was found. Longitudinal orientation of icosahedral Co13 cluster was preferable for magnetization in general. However, it was shown that the magnetic landscape M = f(n,m) of endohedral nanotubes is very complex and sharp.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11535012 and 11675041)。
文摘Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark–gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic(EM)and fluid vortical fields.The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as chiral magnetic,chiral separation,chiral electric separation,and chiral vortical effects as well as the spin polarization of hadrons.These phenomena provide us with experimentally feasible means to study the nontrivial topological sector of quantum chromodynamics,the possible parity violation of strong interaction at high temperature,and the subatomic spintronics of quark–gluon plasma.These studies,both in theory and in experiments,are strongly connected with other subfields of physics such as condensed matter physics,astrophysics,and cold atomic physics,and thus form an emerging interdisciplinary research area.We give an introduction to the aforementioned phenomena induced by the EM field and vorticity and an overview of the current status of experimental research in heavy-ion collisions.We also briefly discuss spin hydrodynamics as well as chiral and spin kinetic theories.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11890713,11890714,11835002,11961131011,11421505,11535012 and 11890713)the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Nos.XDB34030202 and XDB34030102)。
文摘We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions.We present updated experimental results for the chiral magnetic effect and related phenomena.The time evolution of the magnetic fields in different models is discussed.The newly developed quantum kinetic theory for massive fermions is reviewed.We present theoretical and experimental results for the polarization of K hyperons and the q00 value of vector mesons.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11074216 and 11274272)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China
文摘We review the recent progress on the magnetic skyrmions in chiral magnetic materials. The magnetic skyrmion is a topological spin configuration with localized spatial extent, which could be thought of as an emergent rigid particle, owing to its particular topological and chiral properties. Static skyrmionic configurations have been found in various materials with different transport and thermodynamic properties. The magnetic skyrmions respond to externally applied fields in a very unique way, and their coupling to other quasiparticles in solid-state systems gives rise to the emergent electrodynamics.Being not only theoretically important, the magnetic skyrmion is also very promising to be the information carrier in next generation spintronic devices.
文摘The ratio between the anomalous magnetic moments of proton and neutron has recently been suggested to be connected to the ratio of proton momentum fractions carried by the valence quarks inside it. This moment fraction ratio is respectively evaluated by using constituent quark model and chiral quark model in order to check meson cloud effect. Our results show that the meson cloud effect is remarkable to the ratio of the proton momentum fractions, and therefore, this ratiois a sensitive test for the meson cloud effect as well as for the SU(6) symmetry breaking effect.