TY - JOUR
T1 - Chiral plasma instabilities
AU - Akamatsu, Yukinao
AU - Yamamoto, Naoki
PY - 2013/8/1
Y1 - 2013/8/1
N2 - We study the collective modes in relativistic electromagnetic or quark-gluon plasmas with an asymmetry between left- and right-handed chiral fermions, based on the recently formulated kinetic theory with Berry curvature corrections. We find that there exists an unstable mode, signaling the presence of a plasma instability. We argue the fate of this "chiral plasma instability" including the effect of collisions, and briefly discuss its relevance in heavy ion collisions and compact stars.
AB - We study the collective modes in relativistic electromagnetic or quark-gluon plasmas with an asymmetry between left- and right-handed chiral fermions, based on the recently formulated kinetic theory with Berry curvature corrections. We find that there exists an unstable mode, signaling the presence of a plasma instability. We argue the fate of this "chiral plasma instability" including the effect of collisions, and briefly discuss its relevance in heavy ion collisions and compact stars.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.052002
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.052002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84881499683
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 111
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 5
M1 - 052002
ER -