Turbulence in nonabelian gauge theory
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
Kolmogorov wave turbulence plays an important role for the thermalization process following plasma instabilities in nonabelian gauge theories. We show that classical-statistical simulations in SU(2) gauge theory indicate a Kolmogorov scaling exponent known from scalar models. In the range of validity of resummed perturbation theory this result is shown to agree with analytical estimates. We study the effect of classical-statistical versus quantum corrections and demonstrate that the latter lead to the absence of turbulence in the far ultraviolet.
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@article{arxiv.0811.4293,
title = {Turbulence in nonabelian gauge theory},
author = {J. Berges and S. Scheffler and D. Sexty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.4293},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
13 pages, 4 figures. PLB version, improved statistics indicates Kolmogorov exponent 4/3