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20122025
most citedTurbulent thermalization process in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies

243 citations · 1.3k across the 43 of their papers we have counts for

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44 papers

cond-mat.quant-gas2025★ 5 cited

Kelvin waves in nonequilibrium universal dynamics of relativistic scalar field theories

Viktoria Noel, Thomas Gasenzer, Kirill Boguslavski

We investigate the different degrees of freedom underlying far-from-equilibrium scaling behaviour in a relativistic, single-component scalar field theory in two and…

hep-lat2024

Designing weight regularizations based on Lefschetz thimbles to stabilize complex Langevin

Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David I. Müller

The complex Langevin (CL) method shows significant potential in addressing the numerical sign problem. Nonetheless, it often produces incorrect results when used without any stabil…

hep-lat2024★ 6 cited

Lefschetz thimble-inspired weight regularizations for complex Langevin simulations

Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David I. Müller

Complex Langevin (CL) is a computational method to circumvent the numerical sign problem with applications in finite-density quantum chromodynamics and the real-time dynamics of qu…

hep-ph2024★ 2 cited

Condensation and prescaling in spatial Polyakov loop correlations far from equilibrium

Daniel Spitz, Kirill Boguslavski, Thimo Preis

The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of spatial Polyakov loop correlations, which provide gauge-invariant observables akin to effective particle numbers for gluon plasmas, are investi…

hep-ph2024★ 7 cited

Soft-gluon exchange matters: isotropic screening in QCD kinetic theory

Kirill Boguslavski, Florian Lindenbauer

QCD kinetic theory simulations are a prominent tool for studying the nonequilibrium initial stages in heavy-ion collisions. Despite their success, all implementations rely on appro…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Heavy-quark diffusion in 2+1D and Glasma-like plasmas: evidence of a transport peak

Liane Backfried, Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy

We examine how plasma excitations affect the heavy-quark diffusion coefficient in 2+1 dimensional and Glasma-like plasmas, akin to the pre-equilibrium matter describing relativisti…

hep-ph2024

Limiting attractors in heavy-ion collisions -- the interplay between bottom-up and hydrodynamic attractors

Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela, Tuomas Lappi +2

In this contribution to the Quark Matter 2023 proceedings, we study the hydrodynamization process in heavy-ion collisions using QCD kinetic theory and introduce the new concept of…

hep-lat2024

Advancing real-time Yang-Mills: towards real-time observables from first principles

Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David I. Müller

The complex Langevin (CL) method shows great promise in enabling the calculation of observables for theories with complex actions. Nevertheless, real-time quantum field theories ha…

hep-ph2023

Heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient during hydrodynamization via effective kinetic theory

Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela, Tuomas Lappi +2

In these proceedings, we compute the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient using QCD effective kinetic theory for a plasma going through the bottom-up thermalization scenario…

hep-ph2023★ 15 cited

Limiting attractors in heavy-ion collisions

Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela, Tuomas Lappi +2

We study universal features of the hydrodynamization process in heavy-ion collisions using QCD kinetic theory simulations for a wide range of couplings. We introduce the new concep…

hep-lat2023

Highly anisotropic lattices for Yang-Mills theory

Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David I. Müller +1

In this conference proceeding, we investigate the physical anisotropy in terms of the temporal and spatial lattice spacings in relation to the bare parameters of SU(2) pure gauge t…

nucl-th2023

Conserved energy-momentum tensor for real-time lattice simulations

Kirill Boguslavski, Tuomas Lappi, Jarkko Peuron +1

We derive an expression for the energy-momentum tensor in the discrete lattice formulation of pure glue QCD. The resulting expression satisfies the continuity equation for energy c…

hep-lat2023★ 7 cited

Real-time correlators in 3+1D thermal lattice gauge theory

Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David I. Müller

We present the first direct ab-initio computation of unequal-time correlation functions in non-Abelian lattice gauge theory. We demonstrate non-trivial consistency relations among…

hep-ph2023★ 16 cited

Jet quenching parameter in QCD kinetic theory

Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela, Tuomas Lappi +2

We study the jet quenching parameter in a non-equilibrium plasma using the QCD effective kinetic theory. We discuss subleading terms at large jet momentum p, show that our…

hep-ph2023

Heavy quark diffusion coefficient during hydrodynamization -- non-equilibrium vs. equilibrium

Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela, Tuomas Lappi +2

We compute the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient using effective kinetic theory for a system going through bottom-up isotropization until approximate hydrodynamization. We…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Order parameters for gauge invariant condensation far from equilibrium

Jürgen Berges, Kirill Boguslavski, Lillian de Bruin +2

Nuclear collisions at sufficiently high energies are expected to produce far-from-equilibrium matter with a high density of gluons at early times. We show gauge condensation, which…

hep-ph2023★ 34 cited

Jet momentum broadening during initial stages in heavy-ion collisions

Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela, Tuomas Lappi +2

We study the jet quenching parameter in the initial pre-equilibrium stages of heavy-ion collisions using the QCD kinetic theory description of the anisotropic quark-gluon…

hep-ph2023★ 28 cited

Heavy quark diffusion coefficient in heavy-ion collisions via kinetic theory

Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela, Tuomas Lappi +2

We compute the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient using QCD kinetic theory for a system going through bottom-up isotropization in the initial stages of a heavy ion coll…

hep-ph2023★ 8 cited

Probing universal dynamics with topological data analysis in a gluonic plasma

Daniel Spitz, Kirill Boguslavski, Jürgen Berges

We study nonequilibrium dynamics of SU(2) lattice gauge theory in Minkowski space-time in a classical-statistical regime, where characteristic gluon occupancies are much larger tha…

hep-lat2022★ 19 cited

Stabilizing complex Langevin for real-time gauge theories with an anisotropic kernel

Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David I. Müller

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem that occurs in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Using the Schwinger-Keldysh f…

hep-lat2022

A stabilizing kernel for complex Langevin simulations of real-time gauge theories

Kirill Boguslavski, Paul Hotzy, David I. Müller

The complex Langevin (CL) method is a promising approach to overcome the sign problem, which emerges in real-time formulations of quantum field theories. Over the past decade, stab…

hep-th2022

Non-equilibrium attractor in high-temperature QCD plasmas

Dekrayat Almaalol, Kirill Boguslavski, Aleksi Kurkela +1

We establish the existence of a far-from-equilibrium attractor in weakly-coupled gauge theory undergoing 0+1d Bjorken expansion which goes beyond the energy-momentum tensor to the…

hep-lat2022

Long and short distance behavior of the imaginary part of the heavy-quark potential

Kirill Boguslavski, Babak Kasmaei, Michael Strickland

The imaginary part of the effective heavy-quark potential is related to the total in-medium decay width of heavy quark-antiquark bound states. We extract the static limit of this q…

hep-ph2021

Fermion and gluon spectral functions far from equilibrium

Kirill Boguslavski, Tuomas Lappi, Sören Schlichting

Motivated by the quark-gluon plasma, we develop a simulation method to obtain the spectral function of (Wilson) fermions non-perturbatively in a non-Abelian gauge theory with large…