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Hydrodynamic attractors are a universal phenomenon of strongly interacting systems that describe the hydrodynamic-like evolution far from local equilibrium. In particular, the rapid hydrodynamization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma is behind the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-17 Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Tilman Enss

The hydrodynamic attractors paradigm aims to explain the applicability of hydrodynamics after a very short timescale in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC in terms of the emergence of universal behavior across different…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Michal P. Heller , Clemens Werthmann

Hydrodynamic attractors have recently gained prominence in the context of early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the RHIC and LHC. We critically examine the existing ideas on this subject from a phase space point of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-24 Michal P. Heller , Ro Jefferson , Michał Spaliński , Viktor Svensson

Nonthermal attractors govern the emergent self-similar dynamics of far-from-equilibrium quantum systems, from ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions to cold-atom experiments. Within the framework of adiabatic hydrodynamization, the approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Matisse De Lescluze , Michal P. Heller , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Clemens Werthmann

One of the many physical questions that have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC concerns the validity of hydrodynamic modelling at the very early stages, when the Quark-Gluon Plasma system produced is still far…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-24 Jakub Jankowski , Michał Spaliński

Standard textbooks will state that hydrodynamics requires near-equilibrium to be applicable. Recently, however, out-of-equilibrium attractor solutions for hydrodynamics have been found in kinetic theory and holography in systems with a high…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-19 Paul Romatschke

Attractor, supposed to be one of the possible answer for the early applicability of hydrodynamics in the evolution with different initial conditions, has attracted great attention to the fast decreasing of degrees of freedom in heavy ion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Shile Chen , Shuzhe Shi

Non-conformal attractor behavior is studied by solving non-conformal second order viscous hydrodynamics with respect to boost-invariant plasmas. Numerical solutions of the relative decay rate of the enthalpy density, the inverse shear and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-14 Zenan Chen , Li Yan

"Attractor" solutions for the pre-hydrodynamic, far-from-equilibrium, evolution of the matter produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions have emerged as crucial descriptors of the rapid hydrodynamization of quark-gluon plasma (QGP).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Rachel Steinhorst

We study universal features of the hydrodynamization process in heavy-ion collisions using QCD kinetic theory simulations for a wide range of couplings. We introduce the new concept of limiting attractors, which are obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Kirill Boguslavski , Aleksi Kurkela , Tuomas Lappi , Florian Lindenbauer , Jarkko Peuron

We introduce new classes of hydrodynamic theories inspired by the recently discovered fracton phases of quantum matter. Fracton phases are characterized by elementary excitations (fractons) with restricted mobility. The hydrodynamic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 Andrey Gromov , Andrew Lucas , Rahul M. Nandkishore

We derive the general analytical solution of the viscous hydrodynamic equations for an ultrarelativistic gas of hard spheres undergoing Bjorken expansion, taking into account effects from particle number conservation, and use it to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Gabriel S. Denicol , Jorge Noronha

Understanding how hydrodynamics emerges rapidly in the medium produced by relativistic heavy-ion collisions remains a key theoretical challenge. While the attractor solution -- manifesting as a non-thermal fixed point during the early…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-12 Shile Chen , Shuzhe Shi

We consider the hydrodynamic modes for dense trapped ultracold gases, where the interparticle distance is comparable to the scattering length. We show that the experimental determination of the hydrodynamic mode frequencies allows to obtain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Combescot , X. Leyronas

Hydrodynamics provides a concise but powerful description of long-time and long-distance physics of correlated systems out of thermodynamic equilibrium. Here we construct hydrodynamic equations for nonrelativistic particles with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-27 Keisuke Fujii , Yusuke Nishida

We derive the Hydrodynamics for a system of N active, spherical, underdamped particles, interacting through conservative forces. At the microscopic level, we represent the evolution of the particles in terms of the Kramers equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi , Lorenzo Caprini

Controlling interactions out of thermodynamic equilibrium is crucial for designing addressable and functional self-organizing structures. These active interactions also underpin collective behavior in biological systems. Here we study a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Hidenori Tanaka , Alpha A. Lee , Michael P. Brenner

The nonequilibrium evolution in a boost-invariant Bjorken flow of a hybrid viscous fluid model containing two interacting components with different viscosities, such that they represent strongly and weakly self-coupled sectors, is shown to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Toshali Mitra , Sukrut Mondkar , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Anton Rebhan , Alexander Soloviev

The Boltzmann equation is solved in the relaxation time approximation using a hierarchy of angular moments of the distribution function. Our solution is obtained for an azimuthally symmetric radially expanding boost-invariant conformal…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-06-24 Ashutosh Dash , Victor Roy

We exploit the concept of hydrodynamic attractors to establish a general relation between the initial state energy and the produced particle multiplicities in high-energy nuclear collisions. When combined with an ab initio model of energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-01 Giuliano Giacalone , Aleksas Mazeliauskas , Sören Schlichting
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