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Chiral conductivities and effective field theory

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We construct the three-dimensional effective field theory which reproduces low-momentum static correlation functions in four-dimensional quantum field theories with U(1) axial anomalies and a dynamical vector gauge field, in thermal equilibrium. We compute radiative corrections to parity-violating chiral conductivities, to leading order in the effective theory. All of the anomaly-induced transport is susceptible to radiative corrections, except for certain two-point functions which are required by symmetry to vanish.

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Jensen, K., Kovtun, P. & Ritz, A. Chiral conductivities and effective field theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 186 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2013)186

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