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Leonardo Ermann1, Dima L Shepelyansky2
1Departamento de Física Teórica, GIyA, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, 1429 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
We study numerically and analytically the behavior of classical Yang-Mills color fields in a random one-dimensional potential described by the Anderson model with disorder. Above a certain threshold, the nonlinear interactions of Yang-Mills fields lead to chaos and deconfinement of color wavepackets with their subdiffusive spreading in space. The algebraic exponent of the second moment growth in time is found to be in the range of 0.3-0.4. Below the threshold, color wavepackets remain confined even if a very slow spreading at very long times is not excluded due to subtle nonlinear effects and the Arnold diffusion for the case when initially color packets are located in close vicinity. In the case of large initial separation of color wavepackets, they remain well confined and localized in space. We also present the comparison with the behavior of the one-component field model of discrete Anderson nonlinear Schrödinger equation with disorder.
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