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Recent progress in the formulation of relativistic hydrodynamics for particles with spin one-half is reviewed. We start with general arguments advising introduction of a tensor spin chemical potential that plays a role of the Lagrange…

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We present a systematic study of $\Lambda$ hyperon's polarization observables using event-by-event (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamics. The effects of initial hot spot size and QGP's specific shear viscosity on the polarization observables…

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We perform a systematic study of the spin polarization of hyperons in heavy-ion collisions using the MUSIC hydrodynamic model with A Multi-Phase Transport (AMPT) pre-equilibrium dynamics. Our model calculations nicely describe the measured…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 Baochi Fu , Kai Xu , Xu-Guang Huang , Huichao Song

Unexpectedly large and puzzling spin alignment, and thus tensor polarization, of vector mesons has been observed in heavy-ion collisions. Given that tensor polarization represents a fluctuation of spin, we derive, for the first time, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Feng Li , Shuai Y. F. Liu

We investigate the charge conductivity and current-induced spin polarization on the surface state of a three-dimensional topological insulator by including the hexagonal warping effect of Fermi surface both in classical and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 C. M. Wang , F. J. Yu

We have studied the spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in heavy ion collisions at center-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV and $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV carried out at RHIC and LHC colliders. We have calculated the mean spin…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-25 Andrea Palermo , Eduardo Grossi , Iurii Karpenko , Francesco Becattini

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 have computed the second Fourier sine coefficient of the longitudinal spin polarization, $\langle P_{z} \sin 2(\phi_{p} - \Psi_{2}) \rangle$, as a function of multiplicity or centrality in Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Cong Yi , Shuo Fang , Dong-Lin Wang , Shi Pu

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is a generation of spin polarization for moving spin carriers in materials under an external electric field and has been observed in semiconductors, metals, and insulators at or below room temperature. Recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Baochi Fu , Longgang Pang , Huichao Song , Yi Yin

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

The role of dynamical chiral condensate in spin polarization is investigated in a kinetic theory framework. Transport equations for quark matter are derived in the mean-field approximation for the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. The dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-11 Ziyue Wang , Pengfei Zhuang

We have implemented the 3+1 dimensional CLVisc hydrodynamics model with TRENTO-3D initial conditions to investigate the spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons along the beam direction in p+Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 8.16$ TeV.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-02 Cong Yi , Xiang-Yu Wu , Jie Zhu , Shi Pu , Guang-You Qin

We study the effects of externally applied shear flow on a model of suspensions of motors and filaments, via the equations of active hydrodynamics [PRL {\bf 89} (2002) 058101; {\bf 92} (2004) 118101]. In the absence of shear, the…

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The nonequilibrium structural and dynamical properties of semiflexible active polar polymers subject to linear flow are studied by numerical simulations. Filaments are confined in two dimensions and immersed in a fluid described by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-23 A. Lamura , R. G. Winkler

The shear-induced polarization plays a crucial role in understanding the local polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\overline{\Lambda}$ hyperons. A key puzzle is whether the shear-induced polarization is non-dissipative or not. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-22 Jia-Rong Wang , Shuo Fang , Di-Lun Yang , Shi Pu

We show that spin polarization of a fermion in a relativistic fluid at local thermodynamic equilibrium can be generated by the symmetric derivative of the four-temperature vector, defined as thermal shear. As a consequence, besides…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 F. Becattini , M. Buzzegoli , A. Palermo

Different bases for the spin-1 density matrix are discussed to clarify the connection between its components and observables measured in heavy-ion collisions. The theoretical advantage of using the adjoint representation for spin matrices…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Wojciech Florkowski , Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova

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

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