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We derive an analytical expression of a Wigner function that approximately describes the time evolution of the one-dimensional motion of a particle in a nonharmonic potential. Our method involves two exact frame transformations, accounting…

In this paper we derive a fully relativistic kinetic theory for spin-1/2 particles and its coupling to Maxwell's equations, valid in the long scale-length limit, where the fields vary on a scale much longer than the localization of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Robin Ekman , Felipe A. Asenjo , Jens Zamanian

We derive the Boltzmann equation and the collision kernel for massive spin-1/2 particles, using the Wigner-function formalism and employing an expansion in powers of $\hbar$. The phase space is enlarged to include a variable related to the…

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

We employ the Wigner function formalism to simulate partially coherent, dissipative electron transport in biased semiconductor superlattices. We introduce a model collision integral with terms that describe energy dissipation, momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 O. Jonasson , I. Knezevic

We systematically derive the collision term for the axial kinetic theory, a quantum kinetic theory delineating the coupled dynamics of the vector/axial charges and spin transport carried by the massive spin-1/2 fermions traversing a medium.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-04 Di-Lun Yang , Koichi Hattori , Yoshimasa Hidaka

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 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

Newly introduced equilibrium Wigner functions for particles with spin one-half are used in the semi-classical kinetic equations to study a possible relation between thermal vorticity and spin polarization. It is shown that in global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Avdhesh Kumar

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 calculate the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles in an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field to leading order in the Planck constant $\hbar$. Going beyond leading order in $\hbar$ we then derive a generalized Boltzmann equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Nora Weickgenannt , Xin-li Sheng , Enrico Speranza , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

We obtain the accuracy limit for estimating the expectation value of the position of a relativistic particle for an observer moving along one direction at a constant velocity. We use a specific model of a relativistic spin-1/2 particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shin Funada , Jun Suzuki

We derive self-consistent constraint conditions for collision terms in quantum kinetic theory using the Wigner function formalism. We present specific solutions for these collision terms that align with the constraints. we develop quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-24 Shi-Yuan Wu , Jian-Hua Gao

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 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

Based on the Wigner function in local equilibrium, we derive hydrodynamical quantities for a system of polarized spin-1/2 particles: the particle number current density, the energy-momentum tensor, the spin tensor, and the dipole moment…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-22 Hao-Hao Peng , Jun-Jie Zhang , Xin-Li Sheng , Qun Wang

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

In this work, we present a novel framework of relativistic non-resistive dissipative magnetohydrodynamics for spin-polarized particles. Utilizing a classical relativistic kinetic equation for the distribution function in an extended…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-30 Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We compare two recently developed frameworks of perfect spin hydrodynamics for spin-$1/2$ particles, based respectively on classical kinetic theory and the Wigner function. We show that the conserved currents in both approaches have the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Zbigniew Drogosz

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 study local spin polarization in the relativistic hydrodynamic model. Generalizing the Wigner functions previously obtained from chiral kinetic theory by Y. Hidaka et al. [Phys. Rev. D 97, 016004 (2018)] to the massive case, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-28 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang