Nonthermal fixed point for massless scalar field theories

arXiv:2609.26491 · hep-ph, cond-mat.quant-gas · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

hep-ph, cond-mat.quant-gas

Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Terminology

• Universality Class — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reheating — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

Sources

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• Non-thermal fixed points: universality, topology, & turbulence in Bose gases
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• Bidirectional dynamic scaling in an isolated Bose gas far from equilibrium
• Universality far from equilibrium: From superfluid Bose gases to heavy-ion collisions
• Universal dynamics and non-thermal fixed points in quantum fluids far from equilibrium
• Strong versus weak wave-turbulence in relativistic field theory
• Matter Wave Turbulence: Beyond Kinetic Scaling
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• Universal self-similar dynamics of relativistic and nonrelativistic field theories near nonthermal fixed points
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• Large-N kinetic theory for highly occupied systems
• Strong wave turbulence in strongly local large $N$ theories
• Weak and strong turbulence in self-focusing and defocusing media
• Beyond the Boltzmann equation for weakly coupled quantum fields

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