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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.
A geometric figure has chirality, or handedness, if its mirror
image cannot be brought to coincide with itself. The concept of
chirality was instrumental in establishing the tetrahedral valences
of the carbon atom, and has continued to play a key role in
chemistry and molecular biology ever since.The fact that living
organisms use only one of two mirror isomers of such molecules as
amino acids and sugars, that is, the question of the origin of
homochirality of the molecular basis of life, remains an unsolved
problem of the same dignity as the origin of dark matter and dark
energy.The increasing importance of chirality and topology in
condensed matter physics and chemistry, and the production of new
states of matter in heavy-ion collisions, have brought the concept
of chirality into physics and cosmology in a tangible way while at
the same time expanded the physics/chemistry interface. The book is
the first to address all aspects of chirality in a single volume.
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