Chiral Shock Waves
dc.contributor.author | Sen, Srimoyee | |
dc.contributor.author | Yamamoto, Naoki | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-08T20:55:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-08T20:55:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-05-03 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Chiral Shock Waves 2017, 118 (18) Physical Review Letters | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1079-7114 | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 28524671 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.181601 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624056 | |
dc.description.abstract | We study the shock waves in relativistic chiral matter. We argue that the conventional Rankine-Hugoinot relations are modified due to the presence of chiral transport phenomena. We show that the entropy discontinuity in a weak shock wave is quadratic in the pressure discontinuity when the effect of chiral transport becomes sufficiently large. We also show that rarefaction shock waves, which do not exist in usual nonchiral fluids, can appear in chiral matter. The direction of shock wave propagation is found to be completely determined by the direction of the vorticity and the chirality of fermions. These features are exemplified by shock propagation in dense neutrino matter in the hydrodynamic regime. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | JSPS KAKENHI [16K17703]; MEXT-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities, "Topological Science" [S1511006]; U.S. Department of Energy [DE-FG02-04ER41338] | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | en |
dc.relation.url | http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.181601 | en |
dc.rights | © 2017 American Physical Society. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.title | Chiral Shock Waves | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.contributor.department | Univ Arizona, Dept Phys | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Physical Review Letters | en |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-05-18T11:10:16Z | |
html.description.abstract | We study the shock waves in relativistic chiral matter. We argue that the conventional Rankine-Hugoinot relations are modified due to the presence of chiral transport phenomena. We show that the entropy discontinuity in a weak shock wave is quadratic in the pressure discontinuity when the effect of chiral transport becomes sufficiently large. We also show that rarefaction shock waves, which do not exist in usual nonchiral fluids, can appear in chiral matter. The direction of shock wave propagation is found to be completely determined by the direction of the vorticity and the chirality of fermions. These features are exemplified by shock propagation in dense neutrino matter in the hydrodynamic regime. |