scholarly journals Quantum kinetic equation for fluids of spin-1/2 fermions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ömer F. Dayi ◽  
Eda Kilinçarslan
Keyword(s):  
Vector Field ◽  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
Coriolis Force ◽  
Transport Theory ◽  
Axial Vector ◽  
Kinetic Equations ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Chiral Anomaly ◽  
Quantum Kinetic Equation ◽  
Complex Scalar

Abstract Fluid of spin-1/2 fermions is represented by a complex scalar field and a four-vector field coupled both to the scalar and the Dirac fields. We present the underlying action and show that the resulting equations of motion are identical to the (hydrodynamic) Euler equations in the presence of Coriolis force. As a consequence of the gauge invariances of this action we established the quantum kinetic equation which takes account of noninertial properties of the fluid in the presence of electromagnetic fields. The equations of the field components of Wigner function in Clifford algebra basis are employed to construct new semiclassical covariant kinetic equations of the vector and axial-vector field components for massless as well as massive fermions. Nonrelativistic limit of the chiral kinetic equation is studied and shown that it generates a novel three-dimensional transport theory which does not depend on spatial variables explicitly and possesses a Coriolis force term. We demonstrated that the three-dimensional chiral transport equations are consistent with the chiral anomaly. For massive fermions the three-dimensional kinetic transport theory generated by the new covariant kinetic equations is established in small mass limit. It possesses the Coriolis force and the massless limit can be obtained directly.

scholarly journals Equilibrium Spin Distribution From Detailed Balance

2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziyue Wang ◽  
Xingyu Guo ◽  
Pengfei Zhuang
Keyword(s):  
Spin Polarization ◽  
Transport Theory ◽  
Axial Vector ◽  
Detailed Balance ◽  
Kinetic Equations ◽  
Distribution Functions ◽  
Spin Distribution ◽  
Balance Principle ◽  
Quark Level ◽  
Vector Distribution

AbstractAs the core ingredient for spin polarization, the equilibrium spin distribution function that eliminates the collision terms is derived from the detailed balance principle. The kinetic theory for interacting fermionic systems is applied to the Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model at quark level. Under the semi-classical expansion with respect to $$\hbar $$ ħ , the kinetic equations for the vector and axial-vector distribution functions are obtained with collision terms. For an initially unpolarized system, spin polarization can be generated at the first order of $$\hbar $$ ħ from the coupling between the vector and axial-vector charges. Different from the classical transport theory, the collision terms in a quantum theory vanish only in global equilibrium with Killing condition.

Collisional transport for a superthermal ion species in magnetized plasma

1986 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Cozzani ◽  
W. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
Transport Theory ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Transport Coefficients ◽  
Kinetic Equations ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Magnetized Plasma ◽  
Fractional Density ◽  
Background Ions ◽  
Ion Species

The transport theory of a high-energy ion species injected isotropically in a magnetized plasma is considered for arbitrary ratios of the high-energy ion cyclotron frequency to the collisional slowing down time. The assumptions of (i) low fractional density of the high-energy species and (ii) average ion speed faster than the thermal ions and slower than the electrons are used to decouple the kinetic equation for the high-energy species from the kinetic equations for background ions and electrons. The kinetic equation is solved by a Chapman–Enskog expansion in the strength of the gradients; an equation for the first correction to the lowest-order distribution function is obtained without scaling a priori the collision frequency with respect to the gyrofrequency. Various transport coefficients are explicitly calculated for the two cases of a weakly and a strongly magnetized plasma.

scholarly journals COLOR BOSONIZATION, CHIRAL PARAMETRIZATION OF GLUONIC FIELD AND QCD EFFECTIVE ACTION

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (35) ◽  
pp. 2649-2661 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICTOR NOVOZHILOV ◽  
YURI NOVOZHILOV
Keyword(s):  
Vector Field ◽  
Gauge Field ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Axial Vector ◽  
Color Space ◽  
Chiral Anomaly ◽  
Chiral Field ◽  
Gauge Invariant ◽  
Low Energies ◽  
Color Vector

We develop a color bosonization approach to treat QCD gauge field ("gluons") at low energies in order to derive an effective color action of QCD taking into account the quark chiral anomaly in the case of SU(2) color. We have found that there exists such a region in the chiral sector of color space, where a gauge field coincides with chirally rotated vector field, while an induced axial vector field disappears. In this region, the unit color vector of chiral field plays a defining role, and a gauge field is parametrized in terms of chiral parameters, so that no additional degrees of freedom are introduced by the chiral field. A QCD gauge field decomposition in color bosonization is a sum of a chirally rotated gauge field and an induced axial-vector field expressed in terms of gluonic variables. An induced axial-vector field defines the chiral color anomaly and an effective color action of QCD. This action admits existence of a gauge invariant d = 2 condensate of induced axial-vector field and mass.

scholarly journals Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter: Alternative Production Mechanisms in the Early Universe

Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Daniel Boyanovsky
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Distribution Function ◽  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
Standard Model ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Quantum Kinetic Equation ◽  
Sterile Neutrinos ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Production Mechanisms ◽  
Freeze Out

We study various production mechanisms of sterile neutrinos in the early universe beyond and within the standard model. We obtain the quantum kinetic equations for production and the distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos at freeze-out, from which we obtain free streaming lengths, equations of state and coarse grained phase space densities. In a simple extension beyond the standard model, in which neutrinos are Yukawa coupled to a Higgs-like scalar, we derive and solve the quantum kinetic equation for sterile production and analyze the freeze-out conditions and clustering properties of this dark matter constituent. We argue that in the mass basis, standard model processes that produce active neutrinos also yield sterile-like neutrinos, leading to various possible production channels. Hence, the final distribution function of sterile-like neutrinos is a result of the various kinematically allowed production processes in the early universe. As an explicit example, we consider production of light sterile neutrinos from pion decay after the QCD phase transition, obtaining the quantum kinetic equation and the distribution function at freeze-out. A sterile-like neutrino with a mass in the keV range produced by this process is a suitable warm dark matter candidate with a free-streaming length of the order of few kpc consistent with cores in dwarf galaxies.

Kinetic equations for plasmas subjected to a strong time-dependent extenal field. Part 2. The weak-interaction approximation

1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Balescu ◽  
J. H. Misguich
Keyword(s):  
Kinetic Equation ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Weak Interaction ◽  
Weak Coupling ◽  
Kinetic Equations ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
External Fields ◽  
Interaction Approximation

The general theory developed in part 1 is illustrated for a plasma described by the weak-coupling (Landau) approximation. The kinetic equation, valid for arbitrarily strong external fields, is written out explicitly.

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