Nonequilibrium 2PI evolution of the O(N) model with longitudinal expansion
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-05 v2
Abstract
Motivated by the problem of thermalization in heavy-ion collisions, we present numerical simulations of the nonequilibrium evolution of the O(N) model in 1+2 dimensions with longitudinal expansion and in the presence of a background field. We work in the NLO approximation of the 1/N expansion and consider both the strong and weak coupling cases. Special emphasis is put on the difference between the 2PI formalism and the classical statistical approach. In the 2PI case at strong coupling, we find some evidence of the Bose-Einstein (exponential) distribution in the expanding system.
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@article{arxiv.1206.4743,
title = {Nonequilibrium 2PI evolution of the O(N) model with longitudinal expansion},
author = {Yoshitaka Hatta and Akihiro Nishiyama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.4743},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, 12 figures; v2 version published in PRD