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We derive relativistic dissipative spin hydrodynamics from kinetic theory featuring a nonlocal collision term using the method of moments. In this framework, the components of the spin tensor are dynamical variables which obey…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Nora Weickgenannt , David Wagner , Enrico Speranza , Dirk H. Rischke

The proton is a composite object with spin one-half, understood to contain highly relativistic spin one-half quarks exchanging spin-one gluons, each possibly with significant orbital angular momenta. While their fundamental interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 M. Burkardt , C. A. Miller , W. -D. Nowak

The spin-electron-acoustic waves (sometimes called the spin-plasmons) can be found in degenerate electron gas if the spin-up electrons and spin down electrons move relatively each other. Here, we suggest relativistic hydrodynamics with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Pavel A. Andreev

Electron spin transport in a disordered metal is theoretically studied from the hydrodynamic viewpoint focusing on the role of electron vorticity. The spin-resolved momentum flux density of electrons is calculated taking account of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Gen Tatara

We propose a self-consistent model which utilizes the polarization vector to theoretically describe the evolution of spin polarization of relativistic electrons in an intense electromagnetic field. The variation of radiative polarization…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Yuhui Tang , Zheng Gong , Jinqing Yu , Yinren Shou , Xueqing Yan

We derive the spin-wave dynamics of a magnetic material from the time-dependent spin density functional theory in the linear response regime. The equation of motion for the magnetization includes, besides the static spin stiffness, a "Berry…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhixin Qian , Giovanni Vignale

Ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions create the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) known as the hottest, least viscous, and most vortical fluid ever produced in terrestrial laboratories. Its vortical structure has been uncovered through the spin…

We argue that the enhancement in the spin polarization of anti-hyperons compared to the polarization of the hyperons in noncentral relativistic heavy-ion collisions arises as a result of an interplay between the chiral and helical vortical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-08 Victor E. Ambrus , M. N. Chernodub

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

Quasiparticles in semiconductors -- such as microcavity polaritons -- can form condensates in which the steady-state density profile is set by the balance of pumping and decay. By taking account of the polarization degree of freedom for a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-14 Magnus O. Borgh , Jonathan Keeling , Natalia G. Berloff

The extensive analysis of the dynamics of relativistic spinning particles is presented. Using the coadjoint orbits method the Hamiltonian dynamics is explicitly described. The main technical tool is the factorization of general Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-07 Krzysztof Andrzejewski , Cezary Gonera , Joanna Goner , Piotr Kosinski , Pawel Maslanka

We investigate the spin alignment of vector mesons arising from locally polarized quarks and anti-quarks (local spin alignment) in heavy-ion collisions. We find that $\rho_{00}\neq 1/3$ does not necessarily signal the global polarization of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-04-30 Xiao-Liang Xia , Hui Li , Xu-Guang Huang , Huan Zhong Huang

Incorporating for the first time both the spin and isospin degrees of freedom explicitly in transport model simulations of intermediate-energy heavy-ion collisions, we observe that a local spin polarization appears during collision process.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-09 Jun Xu , Bao-An Li

We review the calculation of polarization in a relativistic fluid within the framework of statistical quantum field theory. We derive the expressions of the spin density matrix and the mean spin vector both for a single quantum relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-31 F. Becattini

Strongly interacting spins underlie many intriguing phenomena and applications ranging from magnetism to quantum information processing. Interacting spins combined with motion display exotic spin transport phenomena, such as superfluidity…

We present a systematic study of $\Lambda$ hyperon's polarization observables using event-by-event (3+1)D relativistic hydrodynamics. The effects of initial hot spot size and QGP's specific shear viscosity on the polarization observables…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Sahr Alzhrani , Sangwook Ryu , Chun Shen

We use a thermal model with single freeze-out to determine longitudinal polarization of $\Lambda$ hyperons emitted from a hot and rotating hadronic medium. We consider the top RHIC energies and use the model parameters determined in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Aleksas Mazeliauskas

We systematically study the hyperon global polarization's sensitivity to the collision systems' initial longitudinal flow velocity in hydrodynamic simulations. By explicitly imposing local energy-momentum conservation when mapping the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Sangwook Ryu , Vahidin Jupic , Chun Shen

The main goals of `spin physics' are recalled, and some theoretical and phenomenological aspects of longitudinally polarized deep inelastic scattering and other hard processes are reviewed. The spin dependent parton densities of protons and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Stratmann

The connection between molecular vibrations and spin polarization in charge transport through molecular junctions is currently a topic of high interest, with important consequences for a variety of phenomena, such as chirality-induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-13 Samuel L. Rudge , Christoph Kaspar , Rudolf Smorka , Riley J. Preston , Joseph Subotnik , Michael Thoss