Latest documents http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:02:55 +0100 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:02:55 +0100 http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26815 I discuss the physics of non-Abelian plasmas which are locally anisotropic in momentum space. Such momentum-space anisotropies are generated by the rapid longitudinal expansion of the matter created in the first 1 fm/c of an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision. In contrast to locally isotropic plasmas anisotropic plasmas have a spectrum of soft unstable modes which are characterized by exponential growth of transverse chromo-magnetic/-electric fields at short times. This instability is the QCD analogue of the Weibel instability of QED. Parametrically the chromo-Weibel instability provides the fastest method for generation of soft background fields and dominates the short-time dynamics of the system. The existence of the chromo-Weibel instability has been proven using diagrammatic methods, transport theory, and numerical solution of classical Yang-Mills fields. I review the results obtained from each of these methods and discuss the numerical techniques which are being used to determine the late-time behavior of plasmas subject to a chromo-Weibel instability. Michael Strickland article http://publikationen.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/26815 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:02:55 +0100