Electromagnetic fields and anomalous transports in heavy-ion collisions—A pedagogical review

XG Huang - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The hot and dense matter generated in heavy-ion collisions may contain domains which are
not invariant under P and CP transformations. Moreover, heavy-ion collisions can generate …

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 …

Kinetic theory for massive particles from the Wigner-function formalism

N Weickgenannt, XL Sheng, E Speranza, Q Wang… - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We calculate the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles in an inhomogeneous
electromagnetic field to leading order in the Planck constant ℏ. Going beyond leading order …

[HTML][HTML] Chiral effects in astrophysics and cosmology

K Kamada, N Yamamoto, DL Yang - Progress in Particle and Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
The microscopic quantum nature of elementary particles, chirality, leads to macroscopic
phenomena like the chiral anomaly, chiral magnetic effect, and chiral plasma instability. We …

Reexamination of local spin polarization beyond global equilibrium in relativistic heavy ion collisions

C Yi, S Pu, DL Yang - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
We study local spin polarization in the relativistic hydrodynamic model. Generalizing the
Wigner functions previously obtained from chiral kinetic theory by Y. Hidaka et al.[Phys. Rev …

Relativistic quantum kinetic theory for massive fermions and spin effects

JH Gao, ZT Liang - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We present the complete first order relativistic quantum kinetic theory with spin for massive
fermions derived from the Wigner function formalism in a concise form that shows explicitly …

Axial kinetic theory and spin transport for fermions with arbitrary mass

K Hattori, Y Hidaka, DL Yang - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We derive a quantum kinetic theory for fermions with arbitrary mass in a background
electromagnetic field using a Wigner-function approach. Since spin of massive fermions is a …

Effective quantum kinetic theory for spin transport of fermions with collsional effects

DL Yang, K Hattori, Y Hidaka - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We systematically derive the collision term for the axial kinetic theory, a quantum
kinetic theory delineating the coupled dynamics of the vector/axial charges and spin …

Nonlinear responses of chiral fluids from kinetic theory

Y Hidaka, S Pu, DL Yang - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The second-order nonlinear responses of inviscid chiral fluids near local equilibrium are
investigated by applying the chiral kinetic theory (CKT) incorporating side-jump effects. It is …

Recent developments in chiral and spin polarization effects in heavy-ion collisions

JH Gao, GL Ma, S Pu, Q Wang - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2020 - Springer
We give a brief overview of recent theoretical and experimental results on the chiral
magnetic effect and spin polarization effect in heavy-ion collisions. We present updated …