Anomalous transport and holographic momentum relaxation

Understand

The chiral magnetic and vortical effects denote the generation of dissipationless currents due to magnetic fields or rotation.

• They can be studied in holographic models with Chern-Simons couplings dual to anomalies in field theory.
• We study a holographic model with translation symmetry breaking based on linear massless scalar field backgrounds.
• We compute the electric DC conductivity and find that it can vanish for certain values of the translation symmetry breaking couplings.