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arxiv: hep-ph/0010239 · v2 · submitted 2000-10-20 · ✦ hep-ph

Thermalisation of inhomogeneous quantum scalar fields in 1+1D

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keywords inhomogeneousallowingapproximationbose-einsteinconfigurationscouplingsdeviationsdistribution
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Using an improved version of the Hartree approximation, allowing for ensembles of inhomogeneous configurations, we show in a $\lambda \phi^4$ theory, that initially the system thermalises with a Bose-Einstein distribution. For later times and larger couplings we see deviations.

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