Turbulent thermalization of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas

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We study the dynamics of weakly coupled non-abelian plasmas within the frameworks of classical-statistical lattice gauge-theory and kinetic theory.

• We focus on a class of systems which are highly occupied, isotropic at all times and initially characterized by a single momentum scale.
• These represent an idealized version of the situation in relativistic heavy ion-collisions in the color-glass condensate picture, where on a time scale $1/Q_s$ after the collision of heavy nuclei a longitudinally expanding plasma characterized by the saturation scale $Q_s$ is formed.
• Our results indicate that the system evolves according to a turbulent Kolmogorov cascade in the classical regime.