Chiral vortical effect for an arbitrary spin

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2019)084MaRDI QIDQ2421092zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Xu-Guang Huang, Andrey V. Sadofyev

Publication date 8 June 2019

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08779

zbMATH Keywords

anomalies in field and string theoriestopological states of matter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: The spin Hall effect of light attracted enormous attention in the literature due to the ongoing progress in developing of new optically active materials and metamaterials with non-trivial spin-orbit interaction. Recently, it was shown that rotating fermionic systems with relativistic massless spectrum may exhibit a 3d analogue of the spin Hall current -- the chiral vortical effect (CVE). Here we show that CVE is a general feature of massless particles with an arbitrary spin. We derive the semi-classical equations of motion in rotating frame from the first principles and show how by coordinate transformation in the phase space it can be brought to the intuitive form proposed in [1]. Our finding clarifies the superficial discrepancies in different formulations of the chiral kinetic theory for rotating systems. We then generalize the chiral kinetic theory, originally introduced for fermions, to an arbitrary spin and study chirality current in a general rotating chiral medium. We stress that the higher-spin realizations of CVE can be in principle observed in various setups including table-top experiments on quantum optics.

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