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SUMMARY:Anomalies and transport: from the quark gluon plasma to Weyl semi-
 metals on a superstring - Karl Landsteiner (Madrid)
DTSTART:20140514T131500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Joan Camps
DESCRIPTION:Chiral anomalies belong to the most emblematic predictions of 
 quantum field theory. Whereas in the particle physics context the anomaly 
 explains the decay of the neutral pion\, in the condensed matter context a
 nomalies are at the heart of a variety of non-dissipative transport phenom
 ena. Two examples that have recently attracted much interest are the the "
 chiral magnetic effect" and the "chiral vortical effect". I will discuss t
 he theory of anomalous transport using field and string theory methods and
  will comment on possible applications to the physics of the quark gluon p
 lasma and new so far hypothetical materials\, the Weyl-semimetals.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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