We study the various stages of the evolution of chiral condensates
disoriented via the ``baked-alaska'' mechanism, in which the condensates are
described as the products of external sources localized on the light cone. Our
analysis is based on the classical equations of motion of either the linear or
the nonlinear sigma model. We use the associated framework of coherent states
and, especially, their source functions to make the connection to the
distribution functions for the produced particles. We also compare our
classical approach with a mean-field calculation which includes a certain class
of quantum corrections.Comment: replaced to correct misspelling of author's nam