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We calculate the contribution to the polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons in relativistic nuclear collisions at high energy from the decays of $\Sigma^*(1385)$ and $\Sigma^0$, which are the predominant sources of $\Lambda$ production besides…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 F. Becattini , Gaoqing Cao , Enrico Speranza

The shape of atomic nuclei is often interpreted to possess a quadrupole deformation that fluctuates around some average profile. We investigate the impact of nuclear shape fluctuations on the initial state geometry in heavy ion collisions,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Aman Dimri , Somadutta Bhatta , Jiangyong Jia

We have developed a novel technique for detection of spin polarization with a quantum dot weakly coupled to the objective device. The disturbance to the object in this technique is very small since the detection is performed through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Sunwoo Kim , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

Experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have measured the net polarization of $\Lambda$ and $\bar{\Lambda}$ hyperons and attributed it to a coupling between their spin and the vorticity of the fluid created in heavy ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Joseph I. Kapusta , Ermal Rrapaj , Serge Rudaz

Large orbital angular momentum can be generated in non-central heavy-ion collisions, and part of it is expected to be converted into final particle's polarization due to the spin-orbit coupling. Within the framework of A Multi-Phase…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-08 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Qun Wang

The nucleon spin polarization perpendicular to the reaction plane ($P_y$) and along the beam direction ($P_z$) in Au+Au collisions at the beam energy of 100A MeV with different nuclear spin-orbit interactions has been studied based on a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Jun Xu

Based on a generalized side-jump formalism for massless chiral fermions, which naturally takes into account the spin-orbit coupling in the scattering of two chiral fermions and the chiral vortical effect in a rotating chiral fermion matter,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

Since its discovery, global polarization of the $\Lambda$ hyperon in heavy-ion collisions has been firmly established and is widely attributed to the large vorticity generated in the rotating quark-gluon plasma. In contrast, nearly fifty…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-23 Feng Liu , Zhoudunming Tu

A theory of dynamic polarization of the nuclear spin system via optically-oriented charge carriers in lead halide perovskites is developed and compared with the experiments performed on a FA$_{0.9}$Cs$_{0.1}$PbI$_{2.8}$Br$_{0.2}$ crystal.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mladen Kotur , Pavel S. Bazhin , Kirill V. Kavokin , Nataliia E. Kopteva , Dmitri R. Yakovlev , Dennis Kudlacik , Manfred Bayer

The susceptibility of finite-density QCD matter to vorticity is introduced, as an analog of magnetic susceptibility. It describes the spin polarization of quarks and antiquarks in finite-density QCD matter induced by rotation. We estimate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 A. Aristova , D. Frenklakh , A. Gorsky , D. Kharzeev

We study theoretically the formation of the nuclear-spin polaron state in semiconductor nanosystems within the Lindblad equation approach. To this end, we derive a general Lindblad equation for the density operator that complies with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Iris Kleinjohann , Andreas Fischer , Mikhail M. Glazov , Frithjof B. Anders

Spin effects in the tunneling regime of strong field ionization of hydrogenlike highly charged ions in linearly as well as circularly polarized laser fields are investigated. The impact of the polarization of a laser field on the spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Enderalp Yakaboylu , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan

We briefly review advances in understanding the initial stages of a heavy ion collision. In particular the focus is on moving from parametrizing the initial state to calculating its properties from QCD, consistently with the description of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-16 T. Lappi

Nuclear spins and paramagnetic centers in a solid randomly group to form clusters featuring nearly-degenerate, hybrid states whose dynamics are central to processes involving nuclear spin-lattice relaxation and diffusion. Their…

A theoretical study of spin dynamics in non-relativistic particle beams with interacting angular momenta traversing static, spatially varying magnetic fields is presented. The computational framework evaluates sinusoidal magnetic field…

Nuclear spin polarization is typically generated in GaAs quantum point contacts (QPCs) when an out-of-plane magnetic field gives rise to spin-polarized quantum Hall edge states, and a voltage bias drives transitions between the edge states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Ren , W. Yu , S. M. Frolov , J. A. Folk , W. Wegscheider

We study how local fluctuations in the initial states of relativistic heavy-ion collisions manifest themselves in the correlations between different orders of harmonic moments of the density profiles, particularly those involving only odd…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Guang-You Qin , Berndt Müller

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

Spin-polarization effects of an ultrarelativistic electron beam head-on colliding with an ultraintense two-color laser pulse are investigated comprehensively in the quantum radiation-dominated regime. We employ a Monte Carlo method, derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Huai-Hang Song , Wei-Min Wang , Jian-Xing Li , Yan-Fei Li , Yu-Tong Li

Extremely large angular orbital momentum can be produced in non-central heavy-ion collisions, leading to a strong transverse polarization of partons that scatter through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) due to spin-orbital coupling. We develop…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-14 Xiaowen Li , Ze-Fang Jiang , Shanshan Cao , Jian Deng