Real-time Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Hot QED Plasmas

Abstract

The quantum kinetics of photons is studied directly in real time by implementing the dynamical renormalization group. In contrast to conventional approach, the dynamical renormalization group method consistently includes off-shell (energy non-conserving) effects and accounts for time-dependent collisional kernel. To lowest order we find that in the relaxation time approximation the semihard photon distribution function relaxes with a power law.

Comments: LaTeX, 3 pages, talk presented at DPF2000, August 10, 2000, revised version