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We have derived the Wigner equations at global equilibrium with constant vorticity but space-time dependent electromagnetic fields up to second order in semiclassical expansion. We obtain the new second-order contributions to the charge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-24 Shi-Zheng Yang , Jian-Hua Gao , Shi Pu

We analyze algebraic structure of a relativistic semi-classical Wigner function of particles with spin 1/2 and show that it consistently includes information about the spin density matrix both in two-dimensional spin and four-dimensional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We review basic ingredients of the recently introduced perfect-fluid hydrodynamic equations for particles with spin one-half. For a quasi-realistic setup, first numerical solutions for various hydrodynamic variables including the spin…

A newly proposed framework of perfect-fluid relativistic hydrodynamics for particles with spin 1/2 is briefly reviewed. The hydrodynamic equations follow entirely from the conservation laws for energy, momentum, and angular momentum. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 W. Florkowski , B. Friman , A. Jaiswal , R. Ryblewski , E. Speranza

Using the conservation laws for charge, energy, momentum, and angular momentum, we derive hydrodynamic equations for the charge density, local temperature, and fluid velocity, as well as for the spin tensor, starting from local equilibrium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Wojciech Florkowski , Bengt Friman , Amaresh Jaiswal , Enrico Speranza

Semiclassical expansion of the Wigner function for spin-1/2 fermions having an effective spacetime-dependent mass is used to analyze spin-polarization effects. The existing framework is reformulated to obtain a differential equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-24 Samapan Bhadury , Arpan Das , Wojciech Florkowski , Gowthama K. K. , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The relativistic Wigner function for spin 1/2 particles is the subject of active research due to diverse applications. However, further progress is hindered by the fabulous complexity of the integro-differential equations of motion. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-23 Renan Cabrera , Denys I. Bondar , Herschel A. Rabitz

We derive expressions for the vector and tensor components of the spin polarization of massive vector bosons at local thermodynamic equilibrium up to second order in the space-time gradients of the thermodynamic fields pertaining to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-24 Zhong-Hua Zhang , Xu-Guang Huang , Francesco Becattini , Xin-Li Sheng

We derive an expression for the tensor polarization of a system of massive spin-1 particles in a hydrodynamic framework. Starting from quantum kinetic theory based on the Wigner-function formalism, we employ a modified method of moments…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-09 David Wagner , Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza

The mean spin polarization vector of spin 1/2 particles in a relativistic fluid at local thermal equilibrium (LTE) in different pseudogauges (PGs), i.e., with different choices for the decomposition of orbital and spin angular momentum, is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-26 M. Buzzegoli

We present an extension of relativistic single-particle distribution function for weakly interacting particles at local thermodynamical equilibrium including spin degrees of freedom, for massive spin 1/2 particles. We infer, on the basis of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Becattini , V. Chandra , L. Del Zanna , E. Grossi

The exact solution of the Dirac equation for fermions coupled to an external periodic chiral condensate (chiral spiral) is used to obtain the exact formula for the Wigner function (up to the quantum loop corrections). We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-29 Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova

We briefly review a recently proposed formalism of perfect-fluid hydrodynamics with spin, which is a generalization of the standard hydrodynamic framework and provides a natural tool for describing the evolution of spin-polarized systems of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-05 Rajeev Singh

The polarization of the $\Lambda$ particle offers the unique opportunity to study the hydrodynamic gradients in the Quark-Gluon Plasma formed in heavy-ion collisions. However, the theoretical formula commonly used to calculate polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Andrea Palermo

We analyze the coherence properties of a cold or a thermal neutron by utilizing the Wigner quasidistribution function. We look in particular at a recent experiment performed by Badurek {\em et al.}, in which a polarized neutron crosses a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Facchi , A. Mariano , S. Pascazio

The spin polarization measurements of particles emitted in heavy-ion collisions have opened the possibility for new phenomenological investigations of spin physics in relativistic fluids. The theoretical predictions of global polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-12-13 M. Buzzegoli , F. Becattini , G. Inghirami , I. Karpenko , A. Palermo

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in describing the properties of strongly-interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collision experiments. Recently, there has been a significant advancement in this field to explain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajeev Singh

We show that real polarization method can be effectively used to geometrically quantize physical systems with compact phase space, like the spin. Our method enables us to construct a wave function of a qubit in both position and momentum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Jerzy Kijowski , Piotr Waluk , Katarzyna Senger

We consider the quantum kinetic-theory description for interacting massive spin-half fermions using the Wigner function formalism. We derive a general kinetic theory description assuming that the spin effects appear at the classical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-11 Arpan Das , Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh

We examine the framework of relativistic spin-hydrodynamics in the context of electron hydrodynamics in graphene. We develop a spin-hydrodynamic model for a (2 + 1)-dimensional system of fermions under the condition of small spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Amaresh Jaiswal