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A hybrid framework of spin hydrodynamics is proposed that combines the results of kinetic theory for particles with spin 1/2 with the Israel-Stewart method of introducing nonequilibrium dynamics. The framework of kinetic theory is used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-18 Zbigniew Drogosz , Wojciech Florkowski , Mykhailo Hontarenko

We derive an expression for the tensor polarization of a system of massive spin-1 particles in a hydrodynamic framework. Starting from quantum kinetic theory based on the Wigner-function formalism, we employ a modified method of moments…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-09 David Wagner , Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza

A recently proposed Boltzmann local equilibrium Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles is generalized to the case of Fermi-Dirac statistics. The resulting formula ensures the correct normalization of the mean polarization vector and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova

We briefly review a recently proposed formalism of perfect-fluid hydrodynamics with spin, which is a generalization of the standard hydrodynamic framework and provides a natural tool for describing the evolution of spin-polarized systems of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-05 Rajeev Singh

In this article we review the perfect-fluid hydrodynamics with spin framework proposed recently. This framework generalises the standard relativistic hydrodynamics framework to include spin degrees of freedom and provides a natural method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Rajeev Singh

Classical hydrodynamics is a remarkably versatile description of the coarse-grained behavior of many-particle systems once local equilibrium has been established. The form of the hydrodynamical equations is determined primarily by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-19 A. Scheie , N. E. Sherman , M. Dupont , S. E. Nagler , M. B. Stone , G. E. Granroth , J. E. Moore , D. A. Tennant

We apply the Wigner function formalism to derive drift-diffusion transport equations for spin-polarized electrons in a III-V semiconductor single quantum well. Electron spin dynamics is controlled by the linear in momentum spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Semion Saikin

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

A global equilibrium state of a spin polarized fluid that undergoes constant acceleration along the stream lines is described as a solution of recently introduced perfect-fluid hydrodynamic equations with spin 1/2.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Wojciech Florkowski , Enrico Speranza , Francesco Becattini

We show that, in ideal-spin hydrodynamics, the components of the spin tensor follow damped wave equations. The damping rate is related to nonlocal collisions of the particles in the fluid, which enter at first order in $\hbar$ in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-10 David Wagner , Masoud Shokri , Dirk H. Rischke

The total angular momentum is conserved in the evolution of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collision, and consists of two sectors: the orbital angular momentum (OAM) caused by kinetic motion, and the spin, an intrinsic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

We analyze algebraic structure of a relativistic semi-classical Wigner function of particles with spin 1/2 and show that it consistently includes information about the spin density matrix both in two-dimensional spin and four-dimensional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We calculate the Wigner function for charged spin-1 particles in inhomogeneous classical electromagnetic fields, going to first order in a power series in $\hbar$. The Boltzmann equation for the scalar distribution function obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-29 David Wagner , Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza

Relativistic hydrodynamics has been quite successful in describing the properties of strongly-interacting matter produced in heavy-ion collision experiments. Recently, there has been a significant advancement in this field to explain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajeev Singh

The concept of the Wigner function is used to construct a semi-classical kinetic theory describing the evolution of the axial-current phase-space density of spin-1/2 particles in the relaxation time approximation. The resulting approach can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-01 Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We study local spin polarization in the relativistic hydrodynamic model. Generalizing the Wigner functions previously obtained from chiral kinetic theory by Y. Hidaka et al. [Phys. Rev. D 97, 016004 (2018)] to the massive case, we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-28 Cong Yi , Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang

We study a recently derived fully relativistic kinetic model for spin-1/2 particles. Firstly, the full set of conservation laws for energy, momentum and angular momentum are given, together with an expression for the (non-symmetric)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 R. Ekman , H. Al-Naseri , J. Zamanian , G. Brodin

Starting from the non-relativistic Pauli description of spin-1/2 particles, a set of fluid equations, governing the dynamics of such particles interacting with external fields and other particles, is derived. The equations describe…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin , M. Marklund

We summarize the key ingredients of the recently proposed formalism of relativistic perfect-fluid hydrodynamics with spin. Based on the underlying kinetic theory definitions for the equilibrium distribution functions we obtain the evolution…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh

The equations of perfect spin hydrodynamics are solved for the first time using a realistic (3+1)-dimensional hydrodynamic background, calibrated to reproduce a comprehensive set of hadronic observables, including rapidity distributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Sushant K. Singh , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Wojciech Florkowski