Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1998-02-20
Phys.Rev.D58:125009,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
41 pages, 5 figures, uses revtex, replaced with version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.58.125009
The real time evolution of field condensates with soft length scales k^{-1}>(eT)^{-1} is solved in hot scalar electrodynamics, with a view towards understanding relaxational phenomena in the QGP and the electroweak plasma. We find that transverse gauge invariant non-equilibrium expectation values of fields relax via {\em power laws} to asymptotic amplitudes that are determined by the quasiparticle poles. The long time relaxational dynamics and relevant time scales are determined by the behaviour of the retarded self-energy not at the small frequencies, but at the Landau damping thresholds. This explains the presence of power laws and not of exponential decay. Furthermore, we derive the influence functional, the Langevin equation and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem for the soft modes, identifying the correlation functions that emerge in the classical limit. We show that a Markovian approximation fails to describe the dynamics {\em both} at short and long times. We also introduce a novel kinetic approach that goes beyond the standard Boltzmann equation and incorporates off-shell processes and find that the distribution function for soft quasiparticles relaxes with a power law through Landau damping. We also find an unusual dressing dynamics of bare particles and anomalous (logarithmic) relaxation of hard quasiparticles.
Boyanovsky Daniel
de Vega Hector J.
Holman Richard
Kumar Sreenivasa P.
Pisarski Robert D.
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