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Chaos Driven by Soft-Hard Mode Coupling in Thermal Yang-Mills Theory

T. S. Biro, S. G. Matinyan, B. Muller

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9504303

Abstract

We argue on a basis of a simple few mode model of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory that the color off-diagonal coupling of the soft plasmon to hard thermal excitations of the gauge field drives the collective plasma oscillations into chaotic motion despite the presence of the plasmon mass.

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