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We study the causality and stability of relativistic hydrodynamics with the inclusion of the spin degree of freedom as a hydrodynamic field. We consider two specific models of spin-hydrodynamics for this purpose. A linear mode analysis for…

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We present a new formulation of non-dissipative relativistic spin hydrodynamics that incorporates spin degrees of freedom into the divergence-type theory framework. Due to the divergence-type structure, it is straightforward to enforce…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Nick Abboud , Lorenzo Gavassino , Rajeev Singh , Enrico Speranza

A newly proposed framework of perfect-fluid relativistic hydrodynamics for particles with spin 1/2 is briefly reviewed. The hydrodynamic equations follow entirely from the conservation laws for energy, momentum, and angular momentum. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 W. Florkowski , B. Friman , A. Jaiswal , R. Ryblewski , E. Speranza

Relativistic hydrodynamic equations for particles with spin one-half are used to determine the space-time evolution of the spin polarization in a boost-invariant and transversely homogeneous background. The hydrodynamic approach uses the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-24 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh

We investigate the stability and causality of relativistic spin hydrodynamics in the presence of a nonvanishing spin-density background, assuming that the spin chemical potential enters at leading order, $\omega^{\mu\nu}\sim\mathcal{O}(1)$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Wei Lu , Yang Zhong , Sheng-Qin Feng

We derive an expression for the local transverse polarization of a boost-invariant expanding system of massive particles, which involves a set of dynamical spin moments. Starting from spin kinetic theory, we obtain a closed set of equations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-12 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

Using classical description of spin degrees of freedom, we extend recent formulation of the perfect-fluid hydrodynamics for spin-polarized fluids to the case including dissipation. Our work is based on the analysis of classical kinetic…

We investigate the coupling of the spin angular momentum of light beams with elliptical polarization to the spin degree of freedom of free electrons. It is shown that this coupling, which is of similar origin as the well-known spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Heiko Bauke , Sven Ahrens , Rainer Grobe

In this work, we start with chiral kinetic theory and construct the spin hydrodynamic framework for a chiral spinor system. Using the 14-moment expansion formalism, we obtain the equations of motion of second-order dissipative relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-26 Shuzhe Shi , Charles Gale , Sangyong Jeon

The extreme temperatures and energy densities generated by ultra-relativistic collisions between heavy nuclei produce a state of matter with surprising fluid properties. Non-central collisions have angular momentum on the order of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-29 STAR Collaboration

In non-central high energy heavy ion collisions the colliding system posses a huge orbital angular momentum in the direction opposite to the normal of the reaction plane. Due to the spin-orbit coupling in strong interaction, such huge…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

We study relativistic hydrodynamics in the presence of a non vanishing spin chemical potential. Using a variety of techniques we carry out an exhaustive analysis, and identify the constitutive relations for the stress tensor and spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Domingo Gallegos , Umut Gursoy , Amos Yarom

The role of relativity and dynamics in defining the spin and orbital angular momentum content of hadronic systems is discussed.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 W. N. Polyzou , W. Glöckle , H. Witała

We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems for the case when normal electron collisions prevail over the other scattering processes and the "hydrodynamic flow" regime is realized. The hydrodynamic equations for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , A. V. Yanovsky

Using a covariant and angular-momentum-conserved chiral transport model, which takes into account the spin-orbit interactions of chiral fermions in their scatterings via the side jumps, we study the quark spin polarization in quark matter.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-08-12 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Yifeng Sun , Che Ming Ko

We present a concise review of the recent development of relativistic hydrodynamics and its applications to heavy-ion collisions. Theoretical progress on the extended formulation of hydrodynamics towards out-of-equilibrium systems is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-26 Chun Shen , Li Yan

Using the semiclassical theory of electron dynamics, we derive a gauge-invariant expression for the spin toroidization in a periodical crystal. We show that the spin toroidization is comprised of two contributions: one is due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Yang Gao , David Vanderbilt , Di Xiao

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

Based on the formalism presented in [1], we make a systematic study of spin polarizations of hadrons with different spins including vector mesons, spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 hyperons and spin correlations of hadron-hadron such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Ji-peng Lv , Zi-han Yu , Xiao-wen Li , Zuo-tang Liang

We review basic ingredients of the recently introduced perfect-fluid hydrodynamic equations for particles with spin one-half. For a quasi-realistic setup, first numerical solutions for various hydrodynamic variables including the spin…