  Correlations related to local charge conservation provide insight into the
creation and evolution of up, down and strange charges in the quark-gluon
plasma. Here, the evolution of charge correlations is overlaid onto a
hydrodynamic calculation for the regions where temperature exceed 155 MeV, then
transferred and carried through a microscopic model of the hadronic stage.
Thus, for the first time, charge correlations are evolved consistently with a
full state-of-the-art description of a heavy-ion collision. The charge
correlations are projected onto charge balance functions, which characterize
such correlations in the final state, and are presented as a function of
relative rapidity and relative azimuthal angle for Au/Au collisions. The role
of the hadronic stage is investigated. Calculation of the contribution to
charge-separation observables related to the chiral magnetic effect are also
presented. Calculations are compared to data from the STAR Collaboration at
RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) data when possible.
