Abstract Chiral symmetry and its anomalous and spontaneous breaking play an important role in particle physics, where it explains the origin of pion and hadron mass hierarchyamong other things. Despite its microscopic origin chirality may also lead to observable effects in macroscopic physical systems -- relativistic plasmas made of chiral (spin-$\frac{1}{2}$) particles. Such plasmas are called \textit{chiral}. The effects include non-dissipative currents in external fields that could be presenteven in quasi-equilibrium, such as the chiral magnetic (CME) and separation (CSE)effects, as well as a number of inherently chiral collective modes called the chiral magnetic (CMW) and vortical (CVW) waves.Applications of chiral plasmas ... (more) 2019 Rybalka, Denys (Author) / Shovkovy, Igor (Advisor) / Lunardini, Cecilia (Committee member) / Timmes, Francis (Committee member) / Vachaspati, Tanmay (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher) Theoretical physics / Plasma physics / Nuclear physics and radiation / Anomaly / Chiral / Collective modes / Hydrodynamics / Plasma / Vorticity Doctoral Dissertation 124 pages English Doctoral Dissertation Physics 2019 Graduate College / ASU Library MODS / OAI Dublin Core / RIS