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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…

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Based on a generalized side-jump formalism for massless chiral fermions, which naturally takes into account the spin-orbit coupling in the scattering of two chiral fermions and the chiral vortical effect in a rotating chiral fermion matter,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

We study helicity polarization through the (3+1) dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamic models at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$GeV Au+Au collisions. Similar to the local spin polarization, we consider the helicity polarization beyond global…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-03 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Jian-Hua Gao , Di-Lun Yang

We develop a quantum spin-density-matrix framework for heavy-quark spin dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Starting from an initial polarization induced along the magnetic-field direction, we derive the evolution equation for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-08 Sunil Jaiswal , Sourav Dey , Amaresh Jaiswal

We perform a systematic study on the local and global spin polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\overline{\Lambda}$ hyperons in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at beam energy scan energies via the (3+1)-dimensional CLVisc hydrodynamics model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-28 Xiang-Yu Wu , Cong Yi , Guang-You Qin , Shi Pu

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

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions create hot quark-gluon plasma as well as very strong electromagnetic (EM) and fluid vortical fields. The strong EM field and vorticity can induce intriguing macroscopic quantum phenomena such as chiral…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-26 Yu-Chen Liu , Xu-Guang Huang

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 show that the inclusion of a recently found additional term of the spin polarization vector at local equilibrium which is linear in the symmetrized gradients of the velocity field, and the assumption of hadron production at constant…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-01-12 F. Becattini , M. Buzzegoli , G. Inghirami , I. Karpenko , A. Palermo

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

In this proceeding, we present our recent prediction on the local net Lambda polarization to search for the baryonic spin Hall effect (SHE) at RHIC BES energies. The baryonic SHE is induced by the gradients of baryon chemical potential,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-24 Baochi Fu , Longgang Pang , Huichao Song , Yi Yin

Current-induced spin polarization (CISP) is rederived in ballistic spin-orbit-coupled electron systems, based on equilibrium statistical mechanics. A simple and useful picture is correspondingly proposed to help understand the CISP and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 Ming-Hao Liu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

Spin effects in the tunneling regime of strong field ionization of hydrogenlike highly charged ions in linearly as well as circularly polarized laser fields are investigated. The impact of the polarization of a laser field on the spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Enderalp Yakaboylu , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

We report the measurements of global spin polarization of hyperons ($P_{\Lambda}$) from FAIR, RHIC and LHC energies. The $P_{\Lambda}$ continue to follow an increasing trend at $\sqrt{s_{\mathrm NN}}$ < 7.7 GeV indicating that enormous…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-03-22 Subhash Singha

The global and local spin polarization measurements of $\Lambda$ ($\bar{\Lambda}$) hyperons by STAR and ALICE Collaborations open up an immense interest in investigating the spin polarization dynamics in heavy-ion collisions. Recent studies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

Based on the chiral kinetic equations of motion, spin polarizations of various quarks, due to the magnetic field induced by spectator protons as well as the quark-antiquark vector interaction, are studied within a partonic transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-19 Zhang-Zhu Han , Jun Xu

Recently there have been significant interests in the spin hydrodynamic generation phenomenon from multiple disciplines of physics. Such phenomenon arises from global polarization effect of microscopic spin by macroscopic fluid rotation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Xingyu Guo , Jinfeng Liao , Enke Wang

We investigate the hydrodynamic helicity polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons, defined as the projection of the spin polarization vector along the directions of particle momenta, at RHIC-BES energies by utilizing the relativistic (3+1)D…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-19 Cong Yi , Xiang-Yu Wu , Di-Lun Yang , Jian-Hua Gao , Shi Pu , Guang-You Qin

We use a thermal model with single freeze-out to determine longitudinal polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons emitted from a hot and rotating hadronic medium. We consider the top RHIC energies and use the model parameters determined in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Aleksas Mazeliauskas

We present a framework for spin dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Under the approximation of small polarization, macroscopic spin degrees of freedom decouple from the background, and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-13 Sapna , Sushant K. Singh , David Wagner