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Physics-informed neural networks for angular-momentum conservation in computational relativistic spin hydrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-01-16 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Theoretical developments in relativistic spin hydrodynamics, which describes the macroscopic transport of spin angular momentum alongside other fundamental conserved quantities, have progressed rapidly since the experimental observation of the global spin polarization of Λ\Lambda hyperons in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. However, numerical simulations of relativistic spin hydrodynamics remain largely unaddressed due to computational challenges, particularly the accurate numerical conservation of total angular momentum. In this work, we propose the use of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for computational relativistic spin hydrodynamics. As a concrete application, we consider a rotating fluid confined within a cylindrical container. We show that angular-momentum conservation can be accurately achieved in the PINNs-based numerical framework. Furthermore, we investigate the spin-orbit conversion induced by the rotational viscous effect, which is the intrinsic dissipative process of relativistic spin hydrodynamics. Our analysis numerically identifies the mismatch between the transverse thermal vorticity and the spin potential as the driving mechanism of the spin-orbit conversion.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.10136,
  title  = {Physics-informed neural networks for angular-momentum conservation in computational relativistic spin hydrodynamics},
  author = {Hidefumi Matsuda and Koichi Hattori and Koichi Murase},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10136},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the 26th International Spin Physics Symposium (SPIN 2025), 21-26 September 2025, Qingdao, Shandong, China

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