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We calculate the constitutive equations of the stress-energy tensor and the currents of the free massless Dirac field at thermodynamic equilibrium with acceleration and rotation and a conserved axial charge by using the density operator approach. We carry out an expansion in thermal vorticity to the second order with finite axial chemical potential μA. The obtained coefficients of the expansion are expressed as correlators of angular momenta and boost operators with the currents. We confirm previous observations that the axial chemical potential induces non-vanishing components of the stress-energy tensor at first order in thermal vorticity due to breaking of parity invariance of the density operator with μA ≠ 0. The appearance of these components might play an important role in chiral hydrodynamics.
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Buzzegoli, M., Becattini, F. General thermodynamic equilibrium with axial chemical potential for the free Dirac field. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 2 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2018)002
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