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We present the exact form of the spin polarization vector and the spin density matrix of massive and massless free particles of any spin and helicity at general global equilibrium in a relativistic fluid with non-vanishing thermal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Andrea Palermo , Francesco Becattini

Spin polarization of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, induced by a thermo-current, is considered theoretically. It is shown that a temperature gradient gives rise to an in-plane spin polarization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 A. Dyrdał , M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś

We derive a Cooper-Frye type spin polarization formula for Dirac fermions at local thermal equilibrium described by a grand canonical ensemble specified by temperature, fluid velocity, chemical potential, and spin potential. We discuss the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-06 Yu-Chen Liu , Xu-Guang Huang

It is usually believed that physics in off-equilibrium state characterized by hydrodynamic gradient can be equivalently studied using equilibrium state with suitable metric perturbation. We scrutinize this assumption using chiral kinetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-31 Shu Lin , Jiayuan Tian

Spin-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (PES) is a major experimental probe of chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), yet it remains unclear whether the measured spin polarization reflects molecular chirality itself or the broader…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-25 Amos Afugu , Gyanu P. Kafle , Zhen-Fei Liu

Chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS) generates spin-polarized currents in nonmagnetic materials from structural chirality alone, yet its microscopic origin remains debated. Using a first-principles spatiotemporal density-matrix…

We investigate spin polarization dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions using ideal relativistic spin hydrodynamics, employing non-boost-invariant longitudinal solutions as the hydrodynamic background. Operating in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Matteo Buzzegoli , Aleksandar Gecic , Rajeev Singh

Shear thickening is a widespread phenomenon in suspension flow that, despite sustained study, is still the subject of much debate. The longstanding view that shear thickening is due to hydrodynamic clusters has been challenged by recent…

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Optical control of spin in semiconductors has been pioneered using nanostructures of III-V and II-VI semiconductors, but the emergence of two-dimensional van der Waals materials offers an alternative low-dimensional platform for spintronic…

Several recent experiments on three-dimensional topological insulators claim to observe a large charge current-induced non-equilibrium ensemble spin polarization of electrons in the helical surface state. We present a comprehensive…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-06-29 Pengke Li , Ian Appelbaum

The hydrodynamic theory of polar liquid crystals is widely used to describe biological active fluids as well as passive molecular materials. Depending on the `shear-alignment parameter', in passive or weakly active polar fluids under…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-06 Tomer Markovich , Elsen Tjhung , Michael E. Cates

The broken inversion symmetry at the surface of a metallic film (or, more generally, at the interface between a metallic film and a different metallic or insulating material) greatly amplifies the influence of the spin-orbit interaction on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 I. V. Tokatly , E. E. Krasovskii , G. Vignale

We theoretically study spin and charge transport induced by a twisted light beam irradiated on a disordered surface of a doped three dimensional topological insulator (TI). We find that various types of spin vortices are imprinted on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Kunitaka Shintani , Katsuhisa Taguchi , Yukio Tanaka , Yuki Kawaguchi

We introduce a distinctive feature of spin-polarized transport, the Spin Coulomb Drag: there is an intrinsic source of friction for spin currents due to the Coulomb interaction between spin ``up'' and spin ``down'' electrons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

Cavity polaritons, the elementary excitations appearing in quantum microcavities in the strong-coupling regime, reveal clear signatures of quantum collective behavior. The combination of unique spin structure and strong nonlinear response…

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It is recently noted that in certain centrosymmetric compounds, spin-orbit interaction couples each local sector that lacks inversion symmetry and thus leads to visible spin polarization effects in the real space, dubbed as 'hidden spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 Yingjie Zhang , Pengfei Liu , Hongyi Sun , Hu Xu , Qihang Liu

Spin effects in above-threshold ionization of hydrogenlike highly charged ions in super-strong laser fields are investigated. Spin-resolved ionization rates in the tunneling regime are calculated by employing two versions of a relativistic…

The correlation between vorticity and spin alignment in heavy-ion collisions can be probed through polarization measurements of hadrons, whose total spin originates from both constituent-quark spins and orbital angular momentum in the…

Partons produced in the early stage of non-central heavy-ion collisions can develop a longitudinal fluid shear because of unequal local number densities of participant target and projectile nucleons. Under such fluid shear, local parton…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jian-Hua Gao , Shou-Wan Chen , Wei-tian Deng , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We present a novel approach to the treatment of thermal fluctuations in the (3+1)-D viscous hydrodynamic simulation MUSIC. The phenomenological impact of thermal fluctuations on hadronic observables is investigated using the IP-Glasma +…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Mayank Singh , Chun Shen , Scott McDonald , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale