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Quasiparticle dynamics in relativistic plasmas associated with hot, weakly-coupled gauge theories (such as QCD at asymptotically high temperature $T$) can be described by an effective kinetic theory, valid on sufficiently large time and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-16 Peter Arnold , Guy D. Moore , Laurence G. Yaffe

By making use of the chiral kinetic theory in the relaxation-time approximation, we derive an Israel-Stewart type formulation of the hydrodynamic equations for a chiral relativistic plasma made of neutral particles (e.g., neutrinos). The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-06 E. V. Gorbar , D. O. Rybalka , I. A. Shovkovy

Effects of collisions on conservation laws for toroidal plasmas are investigated based on the gyrokinetic field theory. Associating the collisional system with a corresponding collisionless system at a given time such that the two systems…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 H. Sugama , T. -H. Watanabe , M. Nunami

Parity-odd transport is a central signature of chiral fluids, yet analytical predictions are sparse. Here, we introduce a minimal two-dimensional hard-disk gas in which chirality arises solely from a collision-induced transverse impulse.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-05 Raphael Maire , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Lorenzo Caprini

We investigate the kinetics of phase transitions for chiral symmetry breaking in heavy-ion collisions. We use a Langevin description for order-parameter kinetics in the chiral transition. The Langevin equation of motion includes {\it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Awaneesh Singh , Sanjay Puri , Hiranmaya Mishra

Starting from the Liouville equation, and using a BBGKY-like hierarchy, we derive a kinetic equation for the point vortex gas in two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamics, taking two-body correlations and collective effects into account. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

This article reviews the concept of Lorentz invariant relative velocity that is often misunderstood or unknown in high energy physics literature. The properties of the relative velocity allow to formulate the invariant flux and cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-08 Mirco Cannoni

The role of dynamical chiral condensate in spin polarization is investigated in a kinetic theory framework. Transport equations for quark matter are derived in the mean-field approximation for the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Ziyue Wang , Pengfei Zhuang

Starting from the Keldysh theory, for a general low energy $N$-band Hamiltonian in the clean limit, we perform a manifestly $\smash{U(1) \times SU(N)}$ gauge invariant semiclassical expansion. A generalized Berry curvature tensor is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Thierry Valet , Roberto Raimondi

We study the nonlinear responses of relativistic chiral matter to the external fields, such as the electric field ${\bf E}$, gradients of temperature and chemical potential, ${\bf \nabla} T$ and ${\bf \nabla} \mu$. Using the kinetic theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-29 Jiunn-Wei Chen , Takeaki Ishii , Shi Pu , Naoki Yamamoto

Many features of granular media can be modelled as a fluid of hard spheres with {\em inelastic} collisions. Under rapid flow conditions, the macroscopic behavior of grains can be described through hydrodynamic equations. At low-density, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vicente Garzo

We derive quantum kinetic equations for scalar fields undergoing coherent evolution either in time (coherent particle production) or in space (quantum reflection). Our central finding is that in systems with certain space-time symmetries,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry Matti Rahkila

The covariant chiral kinetic equation (CCKE) is derived from the 4-dimensional Wigner function by an improved perturbative method under the static equilibrium conditions. The chiral kinetic equation in 3-dimensions can be obtained by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-07-19 Jian-hua Gao , Shi Pu , Qun Wang

Semiclassical spin-coherent kinetic equations can be derived from quantum theory with many different approaches (Liouville equation based approaches, nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques, etc.). The collision integrals turn out to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Janik Kailasvuori , Matthias C. Lüffe

Based on the chiral kinetic approach using quarks and antiquarks from a multiphase transport model as initial conditions, we study the chiral magnetic effect, i.e., the magnetic field induced separation of charged particles in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

A covariant formula for conserved currents of energy, momentum and angular-momentum is derived from a general form of Noethers theorem applied directly to the Einstein-Hilbert action of classical general relativity. Energy conservation in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Philip E. Gibbs

A covariant algorithm for deriving the conserved quantities for natural Hamiltonian systems is combined with the non-relativistic framework of Eisenhart, and of Duval, in which the classical trajectories arise as geodesics in a higher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Cariglia , G. W. Gibbons , J. -W. van Holten , P. A. Horvathy , P. -M. Zhang

In the present contribution, we derive from kinetic theory a unified fluid model for multicomponent plasmas by accounting for the electromagnetic field influence. We deal with a possible thermal nonequilibrium of the translational energy of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Benjamin Graille , Thierry E. Magin , Marc Massot

Dynamical symmetries of the collisionless Boltzmann transport equation, or Vlasov equation, but under the influence of an external driving force, are derived from non-standard representations of the $2D$ conformal algebra. In the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Stoimen Stoimenov , Malte Henkel

We develop a general formalism for the quantum kinetics of chiral fermions in a background electromagnetic field based on a semiclassical expansion of covariant Wigner functions in the Planck constant $\hbar$. We demonstrate to any order of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang