Turbulence in nonabelian gauge theory

Understand

Kolmogorov wave turbulence plays an important role for the thermalization process following plasma instabilities in nonabelian gauge theories.

• We show that classical-statistical simulations in SU(2) gauge theory indicate a Kolmogorov scaling exponent known from scalar models.
• In the range of validity of resummed perturbation theory this result is shown to agree with analytical estimates.
• We study the effect of classical-statistical versus quantum corrections and demonstrate that the latter lead to the absence of turbulence in the far ultraviolet.