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Sebastian Scheffler
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We investigate ultraviolet fixed points in the real-time evolution of non-Abelian gauge fields. Classical-statistical lattice simulations reveal equal-time correlation functions with a spectral index 3/2. Analytical understanding of this result is achieved by employing a 2PI- loop expansion for the quantum theory.
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