Chiral vortical transport under minimal-length deformations in rotating relativistic matter

Abstract

We study how a minimal length can affect the chiral vortical effect, in which rotation produces a current in matter made of chiral fermions. We focus on an isotropic modification of the momentum-space density of state (DoS) and determine the vortical conductivity from the static, long-wavelength correlation between the current and momentum density. The analysis is carried out first for a single right-handed Weyl fermion and is then extended to general massless chiral fermion systems with mutually commuting conserved charges. We find that, for a broad class of analytic isotropic DoS modifications, the familiar leading contributions from chemical potential and temperature remain unchanged at first order within the DoS sector. Minimal-length effects instead appear through higher-order thermal and chemical-potential contributions. Some of these corrections contain the same chiral charge combinations that appear in gauge and mixed gauge-gravitational anomalies, while another contains an independent higher-order charge combination. Their coefficients depend on the form of the DoS modification and are therefore not fixed by the usual four-dimensional anomaly structure. For the Kempf–Mangano–Mann deformation, the exact result shows that a positive minimal-length parameter always reduces the DoS contribution to the vortical conductivity. We also find that a Planck-suppressed correction is extremely small under standard heavy-ion chemical freeze-out conditions. These results show that isotropic minimal-length modifications can change higher-order contributions to chiral vortical transport while leaving the familiar leading anomaly-related response unchanged within the DoS sector considered here.