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The edge diffraction of a homogeneously polarized light beam is studied theoretically based on the paraxial optics and Fresnel-Kirchhoff approximation, and the dependence of the diffracted beam pattern of the incident beam polarization is…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Aleksandr Ya. Bekshaev

We perform a causality analysis on the dispersion relation of hydrodynamics with spin well as shear and bulk viscosity, including the relaxation times for all these quantities. We find that the interplay of the three relaxational scales,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 David Montenegro , Giorgio Torrieri

The polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon has become an important probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Recently, it has been found that polarization receives a substantial contribution from a local…

Recently, a new quantum phase, the topological insulator, has been vividly investigated in a variety of materials. Its unique bandstructure allows for optical generation and control of spin-polarized currents based on the circular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Nina Meyer , Kevin Geishendorf , Jakob Walowski , Andy Thomas , Markus Münzenberg

Spectral induced polarization (SIP) is a non-intrusive geophysical method that is widely used to detect sulfide minerals, clay minerals, metallic objects, municipal wastes, hydrocarbons, and salinity intrusion. However, SIP is a static…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 B. Ahmmed , M. K. Mudunuru , S. Karra , S. C. James , H. S. Viswanathan , J. A. Dunbar

The study of spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provides insights into the angular momentum and vortical structure of the possible existence of QGP. The present study examines the global spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

Quarks produced in the early stage of non-central heavy-ion collisions could develop a global spin polarization along the opposite direction of the reaction plane due to the spin-orbital coupling via parton interaction in a medium that has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Xu-Guang Huang , Pasi Huovinen , Xin-Nian Wang

We analyze the behavior of a suspension of active polar particles under shear. In the absence of external forces, orientationally ordered active particles are known to exhibit a transition to a state of non-uniform polarization and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-07 Luca Giomi , M. Cristina Marchetti , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

The mean spin polarization vector of spin 1/2 particles in a relativistic fluid at local thermal equilibrium (LTE) in different pseudogauges (PGs), i.e., with different choices for the decomposition of orbital and spin angular momentum, is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-26 M. Buzzegoli

We propose a new mechanism of generating spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions dominated by nucleon degree of freedom. By incorporating the spin change in nucleon-nucleon scatterings based on the phase shift data together with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Rong-Jun Liu , Jun Xu , Yu-Gang Ma

Despite generally lacking ferromagnetic properties or strong spin-orbit coupling, electrons in chiral molecules exhibit unique spin-dependent transport behavior, known as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). This phenomenon implies a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Peng-Yi Liu , Tian-Yi Zhang , Qing-Feng Sun

With a Yang-Mills field, stratified shear flow initial state and a high resolution (3+1)D Particle-in-Cell Relativistic (PICR) hydrodynamic model, we calculate the $\Lambda$ polarization for peripheral Au+Au collisions at RHIC energy of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Yilong Xie , Dujuan Wang , Laszlo Pal Csernai

We utilize known exact analytic solutions of perfect fluid hydrodynamics to analytically calculate the polarization of baryons produced in heavy ion collisions. Assuming local thermodynamical equilibrium also for spin degrees of freedom,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-22 Balint Boldizsar , Marton I. Nagy , Mate Csanad

A coexistent phase of spin polarization and color superconductivity in high-density QCD is investigated using a self-consistent mean-field method at zero temperature. The axial-vector current stemming from the Fock exchange term of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 E. Nakano , T. Maruyama , T. Tatsumi

The spin Hall effect of light, a spin-dependent transverse splitting of light at an optical interface, is intrinsically an incident-polarization-sensitive phenomenon. Recently, an approach to eliminate the polarization dependence by…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-10 Minkyung Kim , Dasol Lee , Junsuk Rho

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

This study establishes a fundamental connection between the dissipation and polarization of spin waves, which are often treated as independent phenomena. Through theoretical analysis and numerical validation, we demonstrate that within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Yutian Wang , Jiongjie Wang , Ruoban Ma , Jiang Xiao

Recent experiments have demonstrated the efficacy of chiral helically shaped molecules in polarizing the scattered electron spin, an effect termed as chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS). Here we solve a simple tight-binding model for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Shlomi Matityahu , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Carlos A. Balseiro

The spin transport equations for polarized deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion plasma are derived with the density matrix formulation, which are used to investigate the hydrodynamics of polarized DT-gas-filled targets during indirectly driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Ronghao Hu , Hao Zhou , Zhihao Tao , Zhihao Zhang , Meng Lv , Shiyang Zou , Yongkun Ding

Using the local equilibrium density operator, we develop a geometry-informed linear response theory that takes into account the parameterization of the freezeout hypersurface before the gradient expansion is carried out. Assuming local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Andrea Palermo , Masoud Shokri