Hadrons and nuclei far away from equilibrium

A step away from equilibrium

PEDRO JOSÉ SEBASTIÃO This is the second number of CeFEMA newsletter, where we aim at reporting the most recent research activities of CeFEMA to a broad community, be it academic or entrepreneurial, which might be interested in materials science and condensed matter physics. In this number are presented a theoretical work of CeFEMA researchers on systems away from equilibrium and works related t...

From Hadrons to Nuclei: Crossing the Border

The study of nuclei predates by many years the theory of quantum chromodynamics. More recently, effective field theories have been used in nuclear physics to “cross the border” from QCD to a nuclear theory. We are now entering the second decade of efforts to develop a perturbative theory of nuclear interactions using effective field theory. This chapter describes the current status of these eff...

Far-from-equilibrium computation

We study the possibility of developing far-from-equilibrium computational systems, in analogy with corresponding self-organizing physical systems. We review the computational models developed in analogy with physical systems converging towards equilibrium and the research related to the self-organization of far-from-equilibrium physical systems. Based on this review, we define several nonequili...

Isotropization far from equilibrium

Isotropization occurs on time scales much shorter than the thermal equilibration time. This is a crucial ingredient for the understanding of collision experiments of heavy nuclei or other nonequilibrium phenomena in complex many body systems. We discuss in detail the limitations of estimates based on standard “linear” or relaxationtime approximations, where isotropization and thermal equilibrat...

Composite Hadrons and Relativistic Nuclei