Eur. Phys. J. C (2017) 77: 194
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4762-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Anomalous transport from holography: part II

¹ Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, 84105, Israel
² Physics Department, University of Connecticut, 2152 Hillside Road, Storrs, CT, 06269-3046, USA

^* e-mail: yybu@post.bgu.ac.il

Received: 24 February 2017
Accepted: 15 March 2017
Published online: 27 March 2017

Abstract

This is a second study of chiral anomaly-induced transport within a holographic model consisting of anomalous Maxwell theory in Schwarzschild–AdS spacetime. In the first part, chiral magnetic/separation effects (CME/CSE) are considered in the presence of a static spatially inhomogeneous external magnetic field. Gradient corrections to CME/CSE are analytically evaluated up to third order in the derivative expansion. Some of the third order gradient corrections lead to an anomaly-induced negative -correction to the diffusion constant. We also find modifications to the chiral magnetic wave nonlinear in B. In the second part, we focus on the experimentally interesting case of the axial chemical potential being induced dynamically by a constant magnetic and time-dependent electric fields. Constitutive relations for the vector/axial currents are computed employing two different approximations: (a) derivative expansion (up to third order) but fully nonlinear in the external fields, and (b) weak electric field limit but resuming all orders in the derivative expansion. A non-vanishing nonlinear axial current (CSE) is found in the first case. The dependence on magnetic field and frequency of linear transport coefficient functions is explored in the second.