Magneto-vortical Effect in Strong Magnetic Field

TL;DR

This paper develops a covariant chiral kinetic theory in Landau levels to analyze magnetized plasmas with vorticity, revealing new contributions to vector and axial currents consistent with the chiral vortical effect.

Contribution

It introduces a covariant kinetic framework incorporating Landau levels to study magnetized plasmas with vorticity, including vacuum and medium effects.

Findings

Vacuum shifts and excitations match previous studies.

Medium excitations produce a new contribution to currents.

Results align with the standard chiral vortical effect.

Abstract

We develop covariant chiral kinetic theory with Landau level basis. We use it to investigate a magnetized plasma with a transverse electric field and a steady vorticity as perturbations. After taking into account vacuum shift in the latter case, we find the resulting current and stress tensor in both cases can be matched consistently with constitutive equations of magnetohydrodynamics. We find the solution in the vorticity case contains both shifts in temperature and chemical potential as well as excitations of the lowest Landau level states. The solution gives rise to an vector charge density and axial current density. The vacuum parts coming from both shifts and excitations agree with previous studies and the medium parts coming entirely from excitations leads to a new contribution to vector charge and axial current density consistent with standard chiral vortical effect.