Ideal Spin Hydrodynamics from the Wigner Function Approach

Jul 1, 2021
8 pages
Published in:
  • Chin.Phys.Lett. 38 (2021) 11, 116701
  • Published: 2021
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Abstract: (IOP)
Based on the Wigner function in local equilibrium, we derive hydrodynamical quantities for a system of polarized spin-1/2 particles: the particle number current density, the energy-momentum tensor, the spin tensor, and the dipole moment tensor. Compared with ideal hydrodynamics without spin, additional terms at the first and second orders in the Knudsen number Kn and the average spin polarization χs have been derived. The Wigner function can be expressed in terms of matrix-valued distributions, whose equilibrium forms are characterized by thermodynamical parameters in quantum statistics. The equations of motion for these parameters are derived by conservation laws at the leading and next-to-leading order Kn and χs.
Note:
  • 8 pages, no figure
  • tensor: energy-momentum
  • current: density
  • spin: tensor
  • moment: dipole
  • higher-order: 1
  • spin: 1/2
  • statistics: quantum
  • Wigner
  • hydrodynamics
  • space-time