Mapping the phases of quantum chromodynamics with beam energy scan

A Bzdak, S Esumi, V Koch, J Liao, M Stephanov, N Xu - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
We review the present status of the search for a phase transition and critical point as well as
anomalous transport phenomena in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), with an emphasis …

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 …

Complete and consistent chiral transport from Wigner function formalism

A Huang, S Shi, Y Jiang, J Liao, P Zhuang - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
Recently, there has been significant interest in understanding the macroscopic quantum
transport in a many-body system of chiral fermions. A natural framework for describing such …

Rotating quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Y Jiang, ZW Lin, J Liao - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We study the rotational collective motion of the quark-gluon plasma in relativistic heavy-ion
collisions using the widely adopted a multiphase transport (AMPT) model. The global …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Directed flow of charm quarks as a witness of the initial strong magnetic field in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions

SK Das, S Plumari, S Chatterjee, J Alam, F Scardina… - Physics Letters B, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collision (HIC) generates very strong initial magnetic
field (B→) inducing a vorticity in the reaction plane. The high B→ influences the evolution …

Probing vorticity structure in heavy-ion collisions by local polarization

XL Xia, H Li, Z Tang, Q Wang - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
We study the local structure of the vorticity field and the Λ polarization in Au+ Au collisions in
the energy range s NN= 7.7–200 GeV and Pb+ Pb collisions at s NN= 2760 GeV using a …

Thermal vorticity and spin polarization in heavy-ion collisions

DX Wei, WT Deng, XG Huang - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
The hot and dense matter generated in heavy-ion collisions contains intricate vortical
structure in which the local fluid vorticity can be very large. Such vorticity can polarize the …