Prethermalization
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-10 v2 Other Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Prethermalization of the equation of state and the kinetic temperature to their equilibrium values occurs on time scales dramatically shorter than the thermal equilibration time. This is a crucial ingredient for the understanding of collisions of heavy nuclei or other nonequilibrium phenomena in complex quantum and classical many body systems. We also compare the chemical equilibration time with other characteristic time scales.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0403234,
title = {Prethermalization},
author = {J. Berges and S. Borsanyi and C. Wetterich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0403234},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, PRL version, minor changes