166 research outputs found
Thermal conductivity in dynamics of first-order phase transition
Effects of thermal conductivity on the dynamics of first-order phase
transitions are studied. Important consequences of a difference of the
isothermal and adiabatic spinodal regions are discussed. We demonstrate that in
hydrodynamical calculations at non-zero thermal conductivity, ,
onset of the spinodal instability occurs, when the system trajectory crosses
the isothermal spinodal line. Only for it occurs at a cross of the
adiabatic spinodal line. Therefore ideal hydrodynamics is not suited for an
appropriate description of first-order phase transitions.Comment: 21 pages, 2 figures; submitted to Nuclear Physics A on 26 Feb 201
Viscosity and thermal conductivity effects at first-order phase transitions in heavy-ion collisions
Effects of viscosity and thermal conductivity on the dynamics of first-order
phase transitions are studied. The nuclear gas-liquid and hadron-quark
transitions in heavy-ion collisions are considered. We demonstrate that at
non-zero thermal conductivity, , onset of spinodal instabilities
occurs on an isothermal spinodal line, whereas for instabilities
take place at lower temperatures, on an adiabatic spinodal.Comment: invited talk at 6th International Workshop on Critical Point and
Onset of Deconfinment (CPOD2010), Dubna, August 22-28, 201
Estimate of the magnetic field strength in heavy-ion collisions
Magnetic fields created in the noncentral heavy-ion collision are studied
within a microscopic transport model, namely the Ultrarelativistic Quantum
Molecular Dynamics model (UrQMD). Simulations were carried out for different
impact parameters within the SPS energy range ( GeV) and
for highest energies accessible for RHIC. We show that the magnetic field
emerging in heavy-ion collisions has the magnitude of the order of for the SPS energy range and for the RHIC
energies. The estimated value of the magnetic field strength for the LHC energy
amounts to .Comment: 8 pages, 11 figure
Transverse and longitudinal momentum spectra of fermions produced in strong SU(2) fields
We study the transverse and longitudinal momentum spectra of fermions
produced in a strong, time-dependent non-Abelian SU(2) field. Different
time-dependent field strengths are introduced. The momentum spectra are
calculated for the produced fermion pairs in a kinetic model. The obtained
spectra are similar to the Abelian case, and they display exponential or
polynomial behaviour at high p_T, depending on the given time dependence. We
investigated different color initial conditions and discuss the recognized
scaling properties for both Abelian and SU(2) cases.Comment: 10 pages, 11 figures; version accepted to PR
The kinetic description of vacuum particle creation in the oscillator representation
The oscillator representation is used for the non-perturbative description of
vacuum particle creation in a strong time-dependent electric field in the
framework of scalar QED. It is shown that the method can be more effective for
the derivation of the quantum kinetic equation (KE) in comparison with the
Bogoliubov method of time-dependent canonical transformations. This KE is used
for the investigation of vacuum creation in periodical linear and circular
polarized electric fields and also in the case of the presence of a constant
magnetic field, including the back reaction problem. In particular, these
examples are applied for a model illustration of some features of vacuum
creation of electron-positron plasma within the planned experiments on the
X-ray free electron lasers.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures, v2: a reference added; some changes in tex
Hydrodynamical description of a hadron-quark first-order phase transition
Solutions of hydrodynamical equations are presented for the equation of state
of the Var der Waals type allowing for the first order phase transition.
Attention is focused on description of the hadron-quark phase transition in
heavy ion collisions. It is shown that fluctuations dissolve and grow as if the
fluid is effectively very viscous. Even in spinodal region germs are growing
slowly due to viscosity and critical slowing down. This prevents enhancement of
fluctuations in the near-critical region, which is frequently considered as a
signal of the critical point in heavy ion collisions.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Low-energy theorems of QCD and bulk viscosity at finite temperature and baryon density in a magnetic field
The nonperturbative QCD vacuum at finite temperature and a finite baryon
density in an external magnetic field is studied. Equations relating
nonperturbative condensates to the thermodynamic pressure for , and are obtained, and low-energy theorems are derived. A bulk
viscosity is expressed in terms of basic thermodynamical
quantities describing the quark-gluon matter at , , and
. Various limiting cases are also considered.Comment: 12 pages; v2: title changed, new section about bulk viscosity and new
references added; v3: new discussion adde
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