A numerical study of non-perturbative corrections to the Chiral Separation Effect in quenched finite-density QCD

Abstract

We demonstrate the non-renormalization of the Chiral Separation Effect (CSE) in quenched finite-density QCD in both confinement and deconfinement phases using a recently developed numerical method which allows, for the first time, to address the transport properties of exactly chiral, dense lattice fermions. This finding suggests that CSE can be used to fix renormalization constants for axial current density. Explaining the suppression of the CSE which we observe for topologically nontrivial gauge field configurations on small lattices, we also argue that CSE vanishes for self-dual non-Abelian fields inside instanton cores.

Comments: 6 + 2 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, REVTeX style, conclusion changed due to results from simulations with larger lattices, accepted for publication in PRL