Kinetic and Chemical Equilibration in Scalar phi^4 Theory

Abstract

Approximations based on the 2PI effective action are used to investigate the process of equilibration in phi^4 theory in 3+1 dimensions, both in the symmetric and broken phase. A special emphasis is put on the study of the kinetic and chemical equilibration.

8 pages, 6 figures, uses axodraw, minor corrections added, based on a talk given at the Workshop on Quark Gluon Plasma Thermalization, Vienna, August 10th-12th, 2005

References in corpus (10)

• Prethermalization
• Saturation of Elliptic Flow and the Transport Opacity of the Gluon Plasma at RHIC
• Early thermalization at RHIC
• Far-from-equilibrium dynamics with broken symmetries from the 2PI-1/N expansion
• Thermalization of Quantum Fields from Time-Reversal Invariant Evolution Equations
• Quantum dynamics and thermalization for out-of-equilibrium phi^4-theory
• Thermalization of fermionic quantum fields
• Equilibration in phi^4 theory in 3+1 dimensions
• Gauge-fixing dependence of Phi-derivable approximations
• Quantum dynamics of phase transitions in broken symmetry $\lambda {\varphi }^4$ field theory

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