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Polarization has opened a new physics chapter in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Since the first prediction and experimental observation of global spin polarization, a lot of progress has been made in understanding its features, both at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-08 Francesco Becattini , Matteo Buzzegoli , Takafumi Niida , Shi Pu , Ai-Hong Tang , Qun Wang

The study of spin polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions provides insights into the angular momentum and vortical structure of the possible existence of QGP. The present study examines the global spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Bhagyarathi Sahoo , Captain R. Singh , Raghunath Sahoo

We study the spin polarization generated by the hydrodynamic gradients. In addition to the widely studied thermal vorticity effects, we identify an undiscovered contribution from the fluid shear. This shear-induced polarization (SIP) can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Baochi Fu , Shuai Y. F. Liu , Longgang Pang , Huichao Song , Yi Yin

In these proceedings I discuss the recent progress in the theory of spin polarization in relativistic fluids. To date, a number of studies have begun to examine the impact of the shear tensor on the local spin polarization and whether this…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Matteo Buzzegoli

Unexpectedly large and puzzling spin alignment, and thus tensor polarization, of vector mesons has been observed in heavy-ion collisions. Given that tensor polarization represents a fluctuation of spin, we derive, for the first time, a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Feng Li , Shuai Y. F. Liu

The quark-gluon plasma produced by collisions between ultra-relativistic heavy nuclei is well described in the language of hydrodynamics. Non-central collisions are characterized by very large angular momentum, which in a fluid system…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-03-10 Francesco Becattini , Michael Lisa

The $\Lambda$ spin polarization is a crucial probe of the gradients of velocity and temperature in the quark-gluon plasma generated in heavy-ion collisions. However, it is still not systematically used to tune hydrodynamic models. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrea Palermo

The interplay of optical driving and hyperfine interaction between an electron confined in a quantum dot and its surrounding nuclear spin environment produces a range of interesting physics such as mode-locking. In this work, we go beyond…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Arian Vezvaee , Gargee Sharma , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

We present a quantum mechanical theory of optically induced dynamic nuclear polarization applicable to quantum dots and other interacting spin systems. The exact steady state of the optically driven coupled electron-nuclear system is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Thomas Nutz , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

We investigate polarization states of the outgoing neutron-proton ($np$) pair in elastic polarized neutron and proton scattering, aiming to find unambiguous evidence for entanglement of their spin states. To obtain complete information…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-19 H. Witała , J. Golak , R. Skibiński

Motivated by the key role of shear induced polarization in understanding the local spin polarization puzzle of $\Lambda$ hyperons in heavy ion collisions, we perform a complete analysis of spin polarization of massive fermion in a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Ziyue Wang , Shu Lin

We review the phenomenology and theory of bulk observables in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, focussing on recent developments involving event-by-event fluctuations in the initial stages of a heavy ion collision, and how they…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-03 Matthew Luzum , Hannah Petersen

We review recent theoretical and experimental developments in spin dynamics and polarization phenomena in relativistic systems, with a particular focus on heavy-ion collisions. The large angular momentum and magnetic field generated in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Sourav Dey , Arpan Das , Hiranmaya Mishra , Amaresh Jaiswal

The influence of the core polarization on the effective nuclear interaction of asymmetric nuclear matter is calculated in the framework of the induced interaction theory. The strong isospin dependence of the density and spin density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 S. S. Zhang , L. G. Cao , U. Lombardo , P. Schuck

We systematically study the spin correlations and quantum entanglement in transversely polarized electron-positron collisions. We find that the $s$-channel QED process $e^-e^+\to f\bar f$ produces a maximally entangled state in the entire…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Yi-Jing Fang , Amit Bhoonah , Kun Cheng , Tao Han , Yandong Liu , Hao Zhang

Initial-state and final-state interactions, which are conventionally neglected in the parton model, have a profound effect in QCD hard-scattering reactions. These effects, which arise from gluon exchange between the active and spectator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Stanley J. Brodsky

We report a novel manifestation of spin-vorticity interplay in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Using $^{16}$O+$^{197}$Au at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=7.7$ GeV as a test case, we show that the $\Lambda$ hyperon exhibits a clear dual-polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 X. G. Deng , Y. G. Ma

Spontaneous nuclear polarization is predicted in double quantum dots in the spin-blocked electron transport regime. The polarization results from an instability of the zero-polarization state when singlet and triplet electron energy levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 M. S. Rudner , L. S. Levitov

In solid_state hybrid electron_nuclear spin systems quantum entanglement plays vital role in allowing accessible transfer of information between subatomic particles, regardless of the host lattice coordination spatial geometry, revealing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Vesna Berec , J. S. Braunstein

Quarks produced in the early stage of non-central heavy-ion collisions could develop a global spin polarization along the opposite direction of the reaction plane due to the spin-orbital coupling via parton interaction in a medium that has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Xu-Guang Huang , Pasi Huovinen , Xin-Nian Wang