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Evolution of non-stationary pulses in a cold magnetized quark-gluon plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-17 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We study weakly nonlinear wave perturbations propagating in a cold nonrelativistic and magnetized ideal quark-gluon plasma. We show that such perturbations can be described by the Ostrovsky equation. The derivation of this equation is presented for the baryon density perturbations. Then we show that the generalized nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation can be derived from the Ostrovsky equation for the description of quasi-harmonic wave trains. This equation is modulationally stable for the wave number k<kmk < k_m and unstable for k>kmk > k_m, where kmk_m is the wave number where the group velocity has a maximum. We study numerically the dynamics of initial wave packets with the different carrier wave numbers and demonstrate that depending on the initial parameters they can evolve either into the NLS envelope solitons or into dispersive wave trains.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01991,
  title  = {Evolution of non-stationary pulses in a cold magnetized quark-gluon plasma},
  author = {D. A. Fogaça and R. Fariello and F. S. Navarra and Y. A. Stepanyants},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01991},
  year   = {2019}
}