Chiral magnetic effect generates quantum current Separating left- and right-handed particles in a semi-metallic material produces anomalously high conductivity Date: February 8, 2016 ...

This "chiral magnetic effect" had long been predicted theoretically, but never observed definitively in a materials science laboratory at the time this work was done.

Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with matter, giving rise to new, ...

Experimental measurements of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME). An illustration of the hadron angular correlation pattern in the (x-y) plane transverse to the beam axis z in a heavy-ion collision.

"Moreover, the effect is vectorial," explained Wittmann. "If the helix structure of a chiral molecule is directed upwards, ...

More information: Jiaming Luo et al, Large effective magnetic fields from chiral phonons in rare-earth halides, Science (2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.adi9601 Journal information: Science ...

The chiral magnetic effect is also related to another intriguing observation at RHIC of more-localized charge separation within the quark-gluon plasma.

Princeton physicist Zahid Hasan led an international team of physicists who have discovered a form of chiral crystals — crystals with an asymmetry like biological “handedness” — that host slow ...

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Posted: Feb 08, 2016: Chiral magnetic effect generates quantum current (Nanowerk News) Scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have ...