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dc.contributor.authorSen, Srimoyee
dc.contributor.authorYamamoto, Naoki
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-08T20:55:48Z
dc.date.available2017-06-08T20:55:48Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-03
dc.identifier.citationChiral Shock Waves 2017, 118 (18) Physical Review Lettersen
dc.identifier.issn0031-9007
dc.identifier.issn1079-7114
dc.identifier.pmid28524671
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.181601
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/624056
dc.description.abstractWe 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.sponsorshipJSPS 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.isoenen
dc.publisherAMER PHYSICAL SOCen
dc.relation.urlhttp://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.181601en
dc.rights© 2017 American Physical Society.en
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dc.titleChiral Shock Wavesen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.contributor.departmentUniv Arizona, Dept Physen
dc.identifier.journalPhysical Review Lettersen
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refterms.dateFOA2018-05-18T11:10:16Z
html.description.abstractWe 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.


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