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Spin Hydrodynamic Generation in the Charged Subatomic Swirl
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.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, title changed according to published versio
Generation of short hard X-ray pulses of tailored duration using a M\"ossbauer source
We theoretically investigate a scheme for generations of single hard X-ray
pulses of controllable duration in the range of 1 ns - 100 ns from a
radioactive M\"ossbauer source. The scheme uses a magnetically perturbed
FeBO crystal illuminated with recoilless 14.4 keV photons from a
radioisotope Co nuclide. Such compact X-ray source is useful for the
extension of quantum optics to 10 keV energy scale which has been spotlighted
in recent years. So far, experimental achievements are mostly performed in
synchrotron radiation facilities. However, tabletop and portable hard X-ray
sources are still limited for time-resolved measurements and for implementing
coherent controls over nuclear quantum optics systems. The availability of
compact hard X-ray sources may become the engine to apply schemes of quantum
information down to the subatomic scale. We demonstrate that the present method
is versatile and provides an economic solution utilizing a M\"ossbauer source
to perform time-resolved nuclear scattering, to produce suitable pulses for
photon storage and to flexibly generate X-ray single-photon entanglement.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
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