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The spin polarization for baryon in a hydrodynamic medium has been extensively studied in the weakly coupled regime using quantum kinetic theory. As a first study of this problem in the strongly coupled regime, we investigate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-29 Si-wen Li , Shu Lin

We propose a relativistic theory for spin density matrices of vector mesons based on Kadanoff-Baym equations in the closed-time-path formalism. The theory puts the calculation of spin observables such as the spin density matrix element…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-03 Xin-Li Sheng , Lucia Oliva , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We derive the relativistic kinetic equation and collision kernel for dense gases of spin $0$ particles from quantum field theory based on the Wigner-function formalism. The formalism developed by Degroot can be used as an effective way for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-26 Jin Hu

In this work, we briefly review the progress made in the formulation of hydrodynamics with spin with emphasis on the application to the relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In particular, we discuss the formulation of hydrodynamics with spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-29 Samapan Bhadury , Jitesh Bhatt , Amaresh Jaiswal , Avdhesh Kumar

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…

It was recently argued that in small quantum dots the electrons could crystallize at much higher densities than in the infinite two-dimensional electron gas. We compare predictions that the onset of spin polarization and the formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Reimann , M. Koskinen , M. Manninen

As is well-known, for plasmas of high density and modest temperature, the classical kinetic theory needs to be extended. Such extensions can be based on the Schr\"odinger Hamiltonian, applying a Wigner transform of the density matrix, in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-02 Gert Brodin , Jens Zamanian

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

A novel covariant formalism for the treatment of the transfer and Compton scattering of partially polarized light is presented. This was initially developed to aid in the computation of relativistic corrections to the polarization generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jamie Portsmouth , Edmund Bertschinger

We systematically analyze the effects of the derivatives of the hydrodynamic fields on axial Wigner function that describes the spin polarization vector in phase space. We have included all possible first-order derivative contributions that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Yi Yin

We establish covariant semiclassical transport equations of massive spin-1/2 particles which are generated by the quantum kinetic equation modified by enthalpy current dependent terms. The purpose of modification is to take into account the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 O. F. Dayi , E. Kilincarslan

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

We put forward an interpretation of scalar quantum field theory as relativistic quantum mechanics by curing well known problems related to locality. A probabilistic interpretation of quantum field theory similar to quantum mechanics is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-20 W. Westra

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 compute the dispersion relations for scalar, vector and tensor modes of a viscous relativistic fluid, linearized around an equilibrium solution, for a divergence type theory (which, in the linearized theory, includes Israel-Stewart and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Guillermo Perna , Esteban Calzetta

We compute the fermion spin distribution in the vortical fluid created in off-central high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We employ the event-by-event (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model. The spin polarization density is proportional to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Hui Li , Hannah Petersen , Long-Gang Pang , Qun Wang , Xiao-Liang Xia , Xin-Nian Wang

We use linear response techniques to develop the previously proposed relativistic ideal fluid limit with a non-negligible spin density. We confirm previous results and obtain expressions for the microscopic transport coefficients using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-19 David Montenegro , Giorgio Torrieri

Starting from the Pauli Hamiltonian operator, we derive a scalar quantum kinetic equations for spin-1/2 systems. Here the regular Wigner two-state matrix is replaced by a scalar distribution function in extended phase space. Apart from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-21 Jens Zamanian , Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin

We investigate how the curvature of the freeze-out hypersurface polarizes massive vector bosons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Starting from the Proca Lagrangian and using the Wigner function formalism, we perform a systematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Zhong-Hua Zhang , Xu-Guang Huang

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