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We derive the collision term in the Boltzmann equation using the equation of motion for the Wigner function of massive spin-1/2 particles. To next-to-lowest order in $\hbar$ it contains a nonlocal contribution, which is responsible for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza , Xin-li Sheng , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

The extent of a locally equilibrated parton plasma in d + Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV is investigated as a function of centrality in a nonequilibrium-statistical framework. Based on a three-sources model, analytical solutions of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 G. Wolschin , M. Biyajima , T. Mizoguchi , N. Suzuki

The EM field pattern created by spectators in relativistic heavy-ion collisions plants a seed of positive (negative) magnetic helicity in the hemisphere above (below) the reaction plane. Owing to the chiral anomaly, the magnetic helicity…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 A. H. Tang , G. Wang

Magnetic fields in heavy-ion collisions are pivotal and subject to diverse factors. In this study, we quantitatively investigate the impact of fluid vorticity on the evolution of magnetic fields in the 20-50\% centrality class in Au+Au…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-28 Anping Huang , Xiang-Yu Wu , Mei Huang

We briefly review the foundations of a new relativistic fluid dynamics framework for polarized systems of particles with spin one half. Using this approach we numerically study the dynamics of the spin polarization of a rotating medium…

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

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 study evolution of quark-gluon matter in the ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions within the frame work of relativistic second-order viscous hydrodynamics. In particular, by using the various prescriptions of a temperature-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-10 Jitesh R. Bhatt , Hiranmaya Mishra , V. Sreekanth

We study holographic three-dimensional fluids with vorticity in local equilibrium and discuss their relevance to analogue gravity systems. The Fefferman-Graham expansion leads to the fluid's description in terms of a comoving and rotating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Robert G. Leigh , Anastasios C. Petkou , P. Marios Petropoulos

We study the hydrodynamics of a nonresonantly-pumped polariton condensate in a quasi-one-dimensional quantum wire taking into account the spin degree of freedom. We clarify the relevance of the Landau criterion for superfluidity in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 P. -É Larré , N. Pavloff , A. M. Kamchatnov

Starting from a microscopic definition of an alignment vector proportional to the polarization, we discuss the hydrodynamics of polar liquid crystals with local $C_{\infty v}$-symmetry. The free energy for polar liquid crystals differs from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 William Kung , M. Cristina Marchetti , Karl Saunders

Using the (2+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamic code VISH2+1 with a temperature dependent specific shear viscosity (eta/s)(T), we present a detailed study of the influence of a large hadronic shear viscosity and its corresponding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Chun Shen , Ulrich W Heinz

Despite the success of the spin-thermalized assumption in explaining hyperon spin polarizations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, challenges begin to arise especially at lower collision energies. The present study compares the nucleon…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Jun Xu

Thermal vorticity in non-central Au+Au collisions at energies $7.7 \leq \sqrt{s} \leq 62.4$ GeV is calculated within the UrQMD transport model. Tracing the $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons back to their last interaction point we were…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-03 O. Vitiuk , L. Bravina , E. Zabrodin

The effect of helicity (velocity-vorticity correlations) is studied in direct numerical simulations of rotating turbulence down to Rossby numbers of 0.02. The results suggest that the presence of net helicity plays an important role in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Mininni , A. Pouquet

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…

Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with temperatures extracted from relativistic viscous hydrodynamic simulations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Jürgen Berges , Michal P. Heller , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Raju Venugopalan

Vorticity of matter generated in noncentral heavy-ion collisions at energies of the Nuclotron-based Ion Collider fAcility (NICA) at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna is studied. Simulations are performed within the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Yu. B. Ivanov , A. A. Soldatov

Relativistic heavy ion collisions generate nuclear-sized droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that exhibit nearly inviscid hydrodynamic expansion. Smaller collision systems such as p+Au, d+Au, and $^{3}$He+Au at the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-29 M. Byres , S. H. Lim , C. McGinn , J. Ouellette , J. L. Nagle

We report non-local electrical measurements in a mesoscopic size two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in a GaAs quantum well in a hydrodynamic regime. Viscous electric flow is expected to be dominant when electron-electron collisions occur…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , E. V. Levinson , Z. D. Kvon , A. K. Bakarov