Weak and strong coupling equilibration in nonabelian gauge theories

We present a direct comparison studying equilibration through kinetic theory at weak coupling and through holography at strong coupling in the same set-up. The set-up starts with a homogeneous thermal state, which then smoothly transitions through an out-of-equilibrium phase to an expanding system u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Keegan, Liam, Kurkela, Aleksi, Romatschke, Paul, van der Schee, Wilke, Zhu, Yan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103158
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-6623