Contribution for the JETP special issue in honor of V.A.Rubakov’s 60th birthday
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The Einstein-de Haas effect reveals a transfer of angular momentum from microscopic constituents (electrons) to a macroscopic body, but in the case of massless fermions, one could expect the transfer of the chirality of constituents to macroscopic helical motion. For such a picture to be consistent, the macroscopic helicity is to be conserved classically, to echo the conservation of the angular momentum of a rotating body. The helicity conservation would in turn impose constraints on hydrodynamics of chiral liquids (whose constituents are massless fermions). Essentially, the chiral liquids are dissipation-free, on the classical level. Reservations and alternatives to this scenario are discussed.
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Zakharov, V.I. On a chiral analog of the Einstein-de Haas effect. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 120, 428–435 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776115030127
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