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Publications and source records attributed to Roi Klein.
We study the hydrodynamics of a charged fluid with spin degrees of freedom. We argue that, in a conformal field theory in 3+1 dimensions, the spin density is related to a linear combination of standard second-order transport coefficients, and an additional term quadratic in the gauge- and mixed gauge-gravitational anomaly coefficients. We compute the spin density in several free and holographic theories and compare the results.
We study the supersymmetric structure of the spin current in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supersymmetric theories. By coupling the stress tensor multiplet to a vierbein multiplet we identify a spin current with the Hodge dual of the bottom component of the stress tensor multiplet in a wide range of theories. This implies that in holographic theories the Hodge dual of the $R$ current may serve as a spin current, paving the way for holographic studies of theories with background torsion.