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A completely Lorentz-invariant Bohmian model has been proposed recently for the case of a system of non-interacting spinless particles, obeying Klein-Gordon equations. It is based on a multi-temporal formalism and on the idea of treating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Sergio Hernandez-Zapata , Ernesto Hernandez-Zapata

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

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

Newly introduced equilibrium Wigner functions for particles with spin one-half are used in the semi-classical kinetic equations to study a possible relation between thermal vorticity and spin polarization. It is shown that in global…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Avdhesh Kumar

In this article, we extend the result of Boltzmann on characterisation of collision invariants from the case of hard disks to a class of two-dimensional compact, strictly-convex particles.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Laure Saint-Raymond , Mark Wilkinson

We establish covariant semiclassical transport equations of massive spin-1/2 particles which are generated by the quantum kinetic equation modified by enthalpy current dependent terms. The purpose of modification is to take into account the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 O. F. Dayi , E. Kilincarslan

Using the Berezin-Marinov pseudoclassical formulation of spin particle we propose a classical model of spin noncommutativity. In the nonrelativistic case, the Poisson brackets between the coordinates are proportional to the spin angular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 M. Gomes , V. G. Kupriyanov , A. J. da Silva

Starting with the relativistic Boltzmann equation where the collision term was generalized to include gradients of the phase-space distribution function, we recently presented a new derivation of the equations for the relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-23 Amaresh Jaiswal , Rajeev S. Bhalerao , Subrata Pal

The theory of a spinor field interacting with a pure Chern-Simons gauge field in 2+1 dimensions is quantized. Dynamical and nondynamical variables are separated in a gauge-independent way. After the nondynamical variables are dropped, this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Qiong-gui Lin

A linear Boltzmann equation with nonautonomous collision operator is rigorously derived in the Boltzmann-Grad limit for the deterministic dynamics of a Rayleigh gas where a tagged particle is undergoing hard-sphere collisions with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Karsten Matthies , George Stone

We provide a linear analysis on normal modes of the spin Boltzmann equation proposed in \cite{Weickgenannt:2021cuo}, where the non-diagonal or polarized part of the transition rate is neglected to ensure the Hermitian property of linearized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 Jin Hu

The Thomas--Wigner rotation (TWR) results from the fact that a combination of boosts leads to a non-trivial rotation of a physical system. Its origin lies in the structure of the Lorentz group. In this article we discuss the idea that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Veiko Palge , Christian Pfeifer

We derive the relativistic kinetic equation and collision kernel for dense gases of spin $0$ particles from quantum field theory based on the Wigner-function formalism. The formalism developed by Degroot can be used as an effective way for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-26 Jin Hu

Starting from the Pauli Hamiltonian operator, we derive a scalar quantum kinetic equations for spin-1/2 systems. Here the regular Wigner two-state matrix is replaced by a scalar distribution function in extended phase space. Apart from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-21 Jens Zamanian , Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin

We study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

We calculate and investigate the relativistic correlation function for bipartite systems of spin-1/2 in vector and spin-1 particles in tensor states. We show that the relativistic correlation function, which depends on particles momenta,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Paweł Caban , Jakub Rembieliński , Marta Włodarczyk

A covariant method is proposed for calculating the amplitudes of processes involving polarized spin 1/2 particles. It is suitable for calculating the interference terms in the cross sections of such processes. As an illustration,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Bondarev

A method of Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation for relativistic spin-1/2 particles in external fields is proposed. It permits determination of the Hamilton operator in the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation with any accuracy. Interactions between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Alexander J. Silenko

In this work we study modifications in the Aharonov-Bohm effect for relativistic spin 1/2 particles due to the noncommutativity of spacetime in $2 + 1$ dimensions. The noncommutativity gives rise to a correction to the Aharonov-Bohm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Ferrari , M. Gomes , C. A. Stechhahn

Different bases for the spin-1 density matrix are discussed to clarify the connection between its components and observables measured in heavy-ion collisions. The theoretical advantage of using the adjoint representation for spin matrices…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Wojciech Florkowski , Sudip Kumar Kar , Valeriya Mykhaylova