24–26 Jun 2019
Bunkyo School Building, Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba
Japan timezone

Axial kinetic theory and spin transport for massive fermions

25 Jun 2019, 15:20
25m
134 (Bunkyo School Building, Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba)

134

Bunkyo School Building, Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba

3-29-1 Otsuka Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 112-0012 Japan
Oral talk Session 7

Speaker

Dr Di-Lun Yang (Keio University)

Description

In relativistic heavy ion collisions (HIC), not only a strong magnetic field but also strong vorticity could be generated. Recent observations of the polarization of Lambda hyperons have triggered intensive studies for vorticity-induced polarization and spin dynamics in relativistic fluids. However, more recent studies suggest that the spin polarization could be possibly led by non-equilibrium effects. It is thus desired to construct a quantum transport theory for investigating non-equilibrium dynamics of spin polarization for massive fermions. Based on the Wigner-function approach, we derive an axial kinetic theory (AKT) for massive fermions as modified Boltzmann equations involving quantum corrections associated with spin and chiral anomaly, which can be applied to track the phase-space evolution of both vector/axial charges and spin polarization in weakly coupled systems. Since spin of massive fermions is a dynamical degree of freedom, the AKT involves one scalar and one axial-vector kinetic equations with side-jump effects pertinent to the spin-orbit interaction. In the massless limit, the AKT also reproduces the chiral kinetic theory as a well-established quantum kinetic theory for Weyl fermions and manifests the spin enslavement in such a limit. The AKT could have various applications in different physical systems including the spin transport for strange quarks or for Lambda hyperons in HIC.

Primary author

Dr Di-Lun Yang (Keio University)

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