QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

Polarization and vorticity in the quark–gluon plasma

F Becattini, MA Lisa - Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The quark–gluon plasma (QGP) produced by collisions between ultrarelativistic heavy
nuclei is well described in the language of hydrodynamics. Noncentral collisions are …

Shear-induced spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions

B Fu, SYF Liu, L Pang, H Song, Y Yin - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
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 …

Spin polarization induced by the hydrodynamic gradients

SYF Liu, Y Yin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We systematically analyze the effects of the derivatives of the hydrodynamic fields
on axial Wigner function that describes the spin polarization vector in phase space. We have …

Relativistic spin hydrodynamics with torsion and linear response theory for spin relaxation

M Hongo, XG Huang, M Kaminski, M Stephanov… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Using the second law of local thermodynamics and the first-order Palatini
formalism, we formulate relativistic spin hydrodynamics for quantum field theories with Dirac …

Derivation of the nonlocal collision term in the relativistic Boltzmann equation for massive spin- particles from quantum field theory

N Weickgenannt, E Speranza, X Sheng, Q Wang… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We derive the Boltzmann equation and the collision kernel for massive spin-1/2 particles,
using the Wigner-function formalism and employing an expansion in powers of ℏ. The …

Strong-field physics in QED and QCD: From fundamentals to applications

K Hattori, K Itakura, S Ozaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a pedagogical review article on fundamentals and applications of the quantum
dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields in QED and QCD. The fundamentals include the …

Generating spin polarization from vorticity through nonlocal collisions

N Weickgenannt, E Speranza, X Sheng, Q Wang… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We derive the collision term in the Boltzmann equation using the equation of motion for the
Wigner function of massive spin-1/2 particles. To next-to-lowest order in ℏ, it contains a …

Foundations and applications of quantum kinetic theory

Y Hidaka, S Pu, Q Wang, DL Yang - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many novel quantum phenomena emerge in non-equilibrium relativistic quantum matter
under extreme conditions such as strong magnetic fields and rotations. The quantum kinetic …

From Kadanoff-Baym to Boltzmann equations for massive spin- fermions

XL Sheng, N Weickgenannt, E Speranza, DH Rischke… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
We derive Boltzmann equations for massive spin-1/2 fermions with local and nonlocal
collision terms from the Kadanoff-Baym equation in the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism …