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General thermodynamic equilibrium with axial chemical potential for the free Dirac field

Authors :
Buzzegoli, M.
Becattini, F.
Source :
JHEP 1812 (2018) 002
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

We calculate the constitutive equations of the stress-energy tensor and the currents of the free massless Dirac field at thermodynamic equilibrium with acceleration and rotation and a conserved axial charge by using the density operator approach. We carry out an expansion in thermal vorticity to the second order with finite axial chemical potential $\mu_A$. The obtained coefficients of the expansion are expressed as correlators of angular momenta and boost operators with the currents. We confirm previous observations that the axial chemical potential induces non-vanishing components of the stress-energy tensor at first order in thermal vorticity due to breaking of parity invariance of the density operator with $\mu_A \ne 0$. The appearance of these components might play an important role in chiral hydrodynamics.<br />Comment: 29 pages, final version published in JHEP, typos

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
JHEP 1812 (2018) 002
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1807.02071
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)002