1210.8158 (Dam Thanh Son et al.)

Kinetic theory with Berry curvature from quantum field theories    [PDF]

Dam Thanh Son, Naoki Yamamoto

It has been recently shown that a kinetic theory can be modified to incorporate triangle anomalies and the chiral magnetic effect by taking into account the Berry curvature flux through the Fermi surface. We show how such a kinetic theory can be derived from underlying quantum field theories. Using the new kinetic theory, we also compute the parity-odd correlation function that is found to be identical to the result in the perturbation theory in the next-to-leading-order hard dense loop approximation.

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