Overview
- Provides a first coherent and introductory account of this new topic
- Edited and Authored by leading researchers in the field
- Suitable as both self-study text and advanced course material for graduate courses, thematic schools and seminars
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 871)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
-Odd Fluctuations in Heavy Ion Collisions. Deformed QCD as a Toy ModelKeywords
About this book
The physics of strongly interacting matter in an external magnetic field is presently emerging as a topic of great cross-disciplinary interest for particle, nuclear, astro- and condensed matter physicists.
It is known that strong magnetic fields are created in heavy ion collisions, an insight that has made it possible to study a variety of surprising and intriguing phenomena that emerge from the interplay of quantum anomalies, the topology of non-Abelian gauge fields, and the magnetic field. In particular, the non-trivial topological configurations of the gluon field induce a non-dissipative electric current in the presence of a magnetic field. These phenomena have led to an extended formulation of relativistic hydrodynamics, called chiral magnetohydrodynamics.
Hitherto unexpected applications in condensed matter physics include graphene and topological insulators. Other fields of application include astrophysics, where strong magnetic fields exist in magnetars and pulsars.
Last but not least, an important new theoretical tool that will be revisited and which made much of the progress surveyed in this book possible is the holographic principle - the correspondence between quantum field theory and gravity in extra dimensions.
Edited and authored by the pioneers and leading experts in this newly emerging field, this book offers a valuable resource for a broad community of physicists and graduate students.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Strongly Interacting Matter in Magnetic Fields
Editors: Dmitri Kharzeev, Karl Landsteiner, Andreas Schmitt, Ho-Ung Yee
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37305-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-37304-6Published: 18 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-37305-3Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 624
Number of Illustrations: 117 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials