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We study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

We derive relativistic hydrodynamic equations with a dynamical spin degree of freedom on the basis of an entropy-current analysis. The first and second laws of local thermodynamics constrain possible structures of the constitutive relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang , Mamoru Matsuo , Hidetoshi Taya

Two formulations of relativistic hydrodynamics of particles with spin 1/2 are compared. The first approach, dubbed the canonical one, uses expressions for the energy-momentum and spin tensors that have properties that follow a direct…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-16 Asaad Daher , Arpan Das , Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski

Particle spin polarization is known to be linked both to rotation (angular momentum) and magnetization of a many particle system. However, in the most common formulation of relativistic kinetic theory, the spin degrees of freedom appear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Leonardo Tinti , Wojciech Florkowski

After briefly touching on relativistic hydrodynamics, we provide a detailed description of recent developments in spin hydrodynamics. We discuss the theory of perfect spin hydrodynamics within two different approaches, which lead to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 Samapan Bhadury , Zbigniew Drogosz , Wojciech Florkowski , Valeriya Mykhaylova

We revisit the canonical formulation of spin hydrodynamics for Dirac fermions with a general thermal vorticity. The orders of the general thermal vorticity and the corresponding spin variables are considered independently from those of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-11 Lixin Yang , Li Yan

We outline the hybrid framework of spin hydrodynamics, combining classical kinetic theory with the Israel-Stewart method of introducing dissipation. We obtain the local equilibrium expressions for the baryon current, the energy-momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-18 Zbigniew Drogosz

In this work, we start with chiral kinetic theory and construct the spin hydrodynamic framework for a chiral spinor system. Using the 14-moment expansion formalism, we obtain the equations of motion of second-order dissipative relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-26 Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

The energy-momentum and spin tensors for a given theory can be replaced by alternative expressions that obey the same conservation laws for the energy, linear momentum, as well as angular momentum but, however, differ by the local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Sourav Dey , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The total angular momentum is conserved in the evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collision, and consists of two sectors: the orbital angular momentum (OAM) caused by kinetic motion, and the spin, an intrinsic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

We derive relativistic second-order dissipative fluid-dynamical equations of motion for massive spin-1/2 particles from kinetic theory using the method of moments. Besides the usual conservation laws for charge, energy, and momentum, such a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Nora Weickgenannt , David Wagner , Enrico Speranza , Dirk Rischke

Hydrodynamics is a general theoretical framework for describing the long-time large-distance behaviors of various macroscopic physical systems, with its equations based on conservation laws such as energy-momentum conservation and charge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Duan She , Anping Huang , Defu Hou , Jinfeng Liao

With the help of a semi-classical kinetic theory, a new collision kernel is proposed, which simultaneously conserves the energy-momentum tensor and the spin tensor of a relativistic fluid of spin-1/2 particles irrespective of the frame and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-12 Samapan Bhadury

We derive relativistic dissipative spin hydrodynamics from kinetic theory featuring a nonlocal collision term using the method of moments. In this framework, the components of the spin tensor are dynamical variables which obey…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Nora Weickgenannt , David Wagner , Enrico Speranza , Dirk H. Rischke

Fluid dynamic approach is a workhorse for modelling collective dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The approach has been successful in describing various features of the momentum distributions of hadrons produced in the heavy-ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Iurii Karpenko

We present an upgraded formula for Wigner function and spin polarization of fermions emitted by a relativistic fluid at local thermodynamic equilibrium at the decoupling which improves the one obtained in refs. [1, 2] and used in numerical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Xin-Li Sheng , Francesco Becattini , Daniele Roselli

We build upon the recently formulated guiding-center kinetic theory for guiding-center plasma by incorporating spin degrees of freedom in the presence of electromagnetic fields. This approach yields a streamlined set of equations for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-21 Rajeev Singh

Space-time evolution of spin polarization within the framework of hydrodynamics with spin based on de Groot - van Leeuwen - van Weert forms of energy-momentum and spin tensors is studied. Due to the non-boost invariant flow in the system…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-10 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh , Gabriel Sophys

Using the second law of local thermodynamics and the first-order Palatini formalism, we formulate relativistic spin hydrodynamics for quantum field theories with Dirac fermions, such as QED and QCD, in a torsionful curved background. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang , Matthias Kaminski , Mikhail Stephanov , Ho-Ung Yee

We develop a relativistic (quasi-)hydrodynamic framework, dubbed the gyrohydrodynamics, to describe fluid dynamics of many-body systems with spin under strong vorticity based on entropy-current analysis. This framework generalizes the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-04 Zheng Cao , Koichi Hattori , Masaru Hongo , Xu-Guang Huang , Hidetoshi Taya