Theory Seminars

Adler, Bell and Jackiw in a Metal

by Karl Landsteiner (IFT Madrid)

Europe/Madrid
IFAE Seminar room (IFAE)

IFAE Seminar room

IFAE

Description
Anomalies are one of the cornerstones of relativistic quantum field theory. They constrain possible fermion spectra of gauge theories and explain otherwise forbidden processes such as de decay of the neutral pion into two photons. In the recent years however anomalies play an ever bigger role in a totally different realm of physics: condensed matter. In particular anomalies induce exotic new transport phenomena such as the chiral magnetic and the chiral vortical effects. I will give a pedestrian review of chiral anomalies and anomaly induced transport phenoma and discuss some of its applications in a new exciting class of materials: the Weyl semimetals.
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