Novel quantum phenomena induced by strong magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions

TL;DR

This paper reviews how strong magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions induce novel quantum phenomena affecting hadronic matter, heavy quark behavior, and chiral anomaly-related effects.

Contribution

It provides an overview of recent discoveries of magnetic field-induced quantum effects in quark-gluon and hadronic matter during heavy-ion collisions.

Findings

Magnetic fields influence heavy flavor meson properties

Heavy-quark transport is affected by magnetic fields

Chiral anomaly-related phenomena are observed in these conditions

Abstract

The relativistic heavy-ion collisions create both hot quark-gluon matter and strong magnetic fields, and provide an arena to study the interplay between quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics. In recent years, it has been shown that such an interplay can generate a number of interesting quantum phenomena in hadronic and quark-gluon matter. In this short review, we first discuss some properties of the magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions and then give an overview of the magnetic field-induced novel quantum effects. In particular, we focus on the magnetic effect on the heavy flavor mesons, the heavy-quark transports, and the phenomena closely related to chiral anomaly.