2006/08/15 by Michael Strickland · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.11.132
published as Nucl.Phys.A785:50-57,2007 · 8 pages, 3 figures; Contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Strong & Electroweak Matter 2006, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, May 2006
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I review recent analytical and numerical advances in the study of non-equilibrium quark-gluon plasma physics. I concentrate on studies of the dynamics of plasmas which are locally anisotropic in momentum space. In contrast to locally isotropic plasmas such anisotropic plasmas have a spectrum of soft unstable modes which are characterized by exponential growth of transverse (chromo)-magnetic fields at short times. Parametrically the instabilities provide the fastest method for generation of soft background fields and dominate the short-time dynamics of the system.