13–14 Dec 2025
Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science JU
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Spin description in relativistic hydrodynamics: classical vs. quantum

14 Dec 2025, 09:40
15m
A-1-06 (Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science JU)

A-1-06

Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science JU

ul. prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 11 30-348 Kraków

Speaker

Zbigniew Drogosz (Jagiellonian University)

Description

We compare two recently developed frameworks of perfect spin hydrodynamics for spin-1/2 particles, based respectively on classical kinetic theory and the Wigner function. We show that the conserved currents in both approaches have the same form at each order of the expansion in the components of the spin polarization tensor ω. The only difference is a relative multiplicative factor, which is equal to 1 at the lowest nontrivial order and increases monotonically with the expansion order. We also discuss application range of both frameworks. The results are important for practical applications of spin hydrodynamics to model heavy-ion collisions.

Based on:
[1] Phys.Rev.D 112 (2025) 5, L051901
[2] arXiv:2509.06014

Primary author

Zbigniew Drogosz (Jagiellonian University)

Co-authors

Valeriya Mykhaylova (Jagiellonian University) Wojciech Florkowski (Jagiellonian University)

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