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 …

Notes on anomaly induced transport

K Landsteiner - arxiv preprint arxiv:1610.04413, 2016 - arxiv.org
Chiral anomalies give rise to dissipationless transport phenomena such as the chiral
magnetic and vortical effects. In these notes I review the theory from a quantum field …

Perturbative thermal QCD: formalism and applications

J Ghiglieri, A Kurkela, M Strickland, A Vuorinen - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
In this review article, we discuss the current status and future prospects of perturbation
theory as a means of studying the equilibrium thermodynamic and near-equilibrium …

[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 …

Relativistic chiral kinetic theory from quantum field theories

Y Hidaka, S Pu, DL Yang - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
The chiral kinetic theory of Weyl fermions with collisions in the presence of weak electric and
magnetic fields is derived from quantum field theories. It is found that the side-jump terms in …

hyperon polarization in relativistic heavy ion collisions from a chiral kinetic approach

Y Sun, CM Ko - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Using a chiral kinetic approach based on initial conditions from a multiphase transport
model, we study the spin polarizations of quarks and antiquarks in noncentral heavy ion …