title: Relativistic hydrodynamic scaling from the dynamics of quantum field theory.
abstract: Relativistic hydrodynamic scaling or boost invariance is a particularly important hydrodynamic regime, describing collective flows of relativistic many body systems and is used in the interpretation of experiments from high-energy cosmic rays to relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We show evidence for the emergence of hydrodynamic scaling from the dynamics of relativistic quantum field theory. We consider a scalar lambdaphi(4) model in 1+1 dimensions in the Hartree approximation and study the relativistic collisions of two kinks and the decay of a localized high-energy density region. We find that thermodynamic scalar isosurfaces show approximate boost invariance at high-energy densities.
authors.affiliation: Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building 6-308, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Luís M A
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Bettencourt
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pao