Resummed spin hydrodynamics from quantum kinetic theory

Abstract

In this work, the equations of dissipative relativistic spin hydrodynamics based on quantum kinetic theory are derived. Employing the inverse-Reynolds dominance approach, a resummation scheme based on a power counting in Knudsen and inverse Reynolds numbers is constructed, leading to hydrodynamic equations that are accurate to second order. It is found that the spin dynamics can be characterized by 11 equations: six of them describe the evolution of the components of the spin potential, while the remaining five provide the equation of motion of a dissipative irreducible rank-two tensor. For a simple truncation, the first- and second-order transport coefficients are computed explicitly.

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