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We derive Boltzmann equations for massive spin-1/2 fermions with local and nonlocal collision terms from the Kadanoff--Baym equation in the Schwinger--Keldysh formalism, properly accounting for the spin degrees of freedom. The Boltzmann…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Xin-Li Sheng , Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza , Dirk H. Rischke , Qun Wang

A new non-perturbative approach to quantum theory in curved spacetime and to quantum gravity, based on a generalisation of the Wigner equation, is proposed. Our definition for a Wigner equation differs from what have otherwise been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank Antonsen

We critically compare thermodynamic and kinetic approaches, that have been recently used to study relations between the spin polarization and fluid vorticity in systems consisting of spin-one-half particles. The thermodynamic approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-31 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The modified Navier-Stokes equation describing the velocity field in the superfluid quantum space is loaded by the external Lorentz force introducing electromagnetic fields. In order to open the path for getting the \Schrodinger-Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Valeriy I. Sbitnev

We review the calculation of polarization in a relativistic fluid within the framework of statistical quantum field theory. We derive the expressions of the spin density matrix and the mean spin vector both for a single quantum relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-31 F. Becattini

Using classical description of spin degrees of freedom, we extend recent formulation of the perfect-fluid hydrodynamics for spin-polarized fluids to the case including dissipation. Our work is based on the analysis of classical kinetic…

We find that the recently developed kinetic theories with spin for massive and massless fermions are smoothly connected. By introducing a reference-frame vector, we decompose the dipole-moment tensor into electric and magnetic dipole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Xin-Li Sheng , Qun Wang , Xu-Guang Huang

We have considered linear kinetic theory including the electron spin properties in a magnetized plasma. The starting point is a mean field Vlasov-like equation, derived from a fully quantum mechanical treatment, where effects from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Joakim Lundin , Gert Brodin

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 present the complete first order relativistic quantum kinetic theory with spin for massive fermions derived from the Wigner function formalism in a concise form that shows explicitly how the 32 Wigner equations reduce to 4 independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang

Starting from kinetic theory description of massive spin-1/2 particles in presence of magnetic field, equations for relativistic dissipative non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics are obtained in the small polarization limit. We use a…

We study the three-dimensional transport theory of massive spin-1/2 fermions resulting from the vorticity dependent quantum kinetic equation. This quantum kinetic equation has been introduced to take account of noninertial properties of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-02 Ö. F. Dayi , S. E. Gürleyen

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

We show that Wigner's infinite spin particle classically is described by a reparametrization invariant higher order geometrical Lagrangian. The model exhibit unconventional features like tachyonic behaviour and momenta proportional to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Ludde Edgren , Robert Marnelius , Per Salomonson

A power expansion scheme is set up to determine the Wigner function that satisfies the quantum kinetic equation for spin-1/2 charged fermions in a background electromagnetic field. Vector and axial-vector current induced by magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-27 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Shi Pu , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

I investigate the quantum dynamics of a spin-$1/2$ particle in a static, spherically symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) black-hole spacetime within the Hamiltonian framework. Starting from the Dirac equation in curved spacetime,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 E. Maciel

We revisit the derivation of the nonlocal collision term in the Boltzmann equation for spin-1/2 particles, using both the Wigner-function approach by de Groot, van Leeuwen, and van Weert, and the Kadanoff-Baym equation in $T$-matrix…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 David Wagner , Nora Weickgenannt , Dirk H. Rischke

Earlier we obtained quasi-classical equations of motion of spin 1/2 massless particle in a curved spacetime on base of simple Lagrangian model \cite{al2}. Now we suggest an approach to derive the equations in framework of field theory.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-05-13 A. T. Muminov

The coupled kinetic equation for density and spin Wigner functions are derived including spin-orbit coupling, electric and magnetic field as well as selfconsistent Hartree meanfields suited for SU(2) transport. The interactions are assumed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 K. Morawetz

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