Recently there have been significant interests in the spin hydrodynamic generation phenomenon from multiple disciplines of physics. Such phenomenon arises from global polarization effect of microscopic spin by macroscopic fluid rotation and is expected to occur in the hot quark-gluon fluid (the ``subatomic swirl) created in relativistic nuclear collisions. This was indeed discovered in experiments which however revealed an intriguing puzzle: a polarization difference between particles and anti-particles. We suggest a novel application of a general connection between rotation and magnetic field: a magnetic field naturally arises along the fluid vorticity in the charged subatomic swirl. We establish this mechanism as a new way for generating long-lived in-medium magnetic field in heavy ion collisions. Due to its novel feature, this new magnetic field provides a nontrivial explanation to the puzzling observation of a difference in spin hydrodynamic generation for particles and anti-particles in heavy ion collisions.
We report a novel relation between rotation and magnetic field in a charged fluid system: there is naturally a magnetic field along the direction of fluid vorticity due to the currents associated with the swirling charges. This general connection is demonstrated using a fluid vortex. Applying the idea to heavy ion collisions we propose a new mechanism for generating in-medium magnetic field with a relatively long lifetime. We estimate the magnitude of this new magnetic field in the Au-Au colliding systems across a wide span of collisional beam energy. Such a magnetic field is found to increase rapidly toward lower beam energy and could account for a significant amount of the experimentally observed global polarization difference between hyperons and anti-hyperons.
Graphene hosts an ultra-clean electronic system with electron-electron collisions being the dominant source of scattering above liquid nitrogen temperatures. In this regime, the motion of the electron fluid resembles the flow of classical liquids and gases with high viscosity. Here we show that such a viscous electron flow can cause the generation of a spin current perpendicular to the direction of flow. Combining the Navier-Stokes equations and the spin diffusion equation in the presence of the spin-vorticity coupling, we derive an expression for the spin accumulation emerging purely as a result of the viscous electron flow. We explore Poiseuille flow and Jeffery-Hamel flow and show that the spin Hall angle may exceed 0.1 over a wide range of temperatures and can be controlled by carrier density, temperature, and the geometry of sample boundaries. Our theory points to new functionality of graphene as a spin current source.
We discus the role of QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics) to low energy phenomena involving the color-spin symmetry of the quark model. We then combine it with orbital and isospin symmetry to obtain wave functions with the proper permutation symmetry, focusing on multi quark systems.
We study the production and decay of fourth generation leptons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).We find that for charged leptons with masses under a few hundred GeV, the dominant collider signal comes from the production through a W-boson of a charged and neutral fourth generation lepton. We present a sensitivity study for this process in events with two like-sign charged leptons and at least two associated jets. We show that with sqrts = 7 TeV and 1 inverse fb of data, the LHC can exclude fourth generation charged leptons with masses up to 250 GeV.
We study various formulations of Leggett-Garg inequality (LGI), specifically, the Wigner and Clauser-Horne forms of LGI, in the context of subatomic systems, in particular, three flavor neutrino as well as meson systems. The optimal forms of various LGIs for either neutrinos or mesons are seen to depend on measurement settings. For the neutrinos, some of these inequalities can be written completely in terms of experimentally measurable probabilities. Hence, the Wigner and Clauser-Horne forms of LGI are found to be more suitable as compared to the standard LGI from the experimental point of view for the neutrino system. Further, these inequalities exhibit maximum quantum violation around the energies roughly corresponding to the maximum neutrino flux. The Leggett-Garg type inequality is seen to be more suited for the meson dynamics. The meson system being inherently a decaying system, allows one to see the effect of decoherence on the extent of violation of various inequalities. Decoherence is observed to reduce the degree of violation, and hence the nonclassical nature of the system.