Cumulative effects of collision integral, strong magnetic field, and quasiparticle description on charge and heat transport in thermal QCD medium

TL;DR

This paper investigates how collision integrals, strong magnetic fields, and quasiparticle models influence charge and heat transport in thermal QCD, revealing significant effects on conductivities and system equilibration.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of combined effects of collision dynamics, magnetic field-induced dimensional reduction, and quasiparticle dispersion on transport properties in thermal QCD.

Findings

Modified collision term enhances electrical and thermal conductivities.

Strong magnetic field drastically increases conductivities and reduces specific heat.

Quasiparticle description under strong B leads to physically plausible transport behavior.

Abstract

Our first aim is to explore the effect of the collision integral with the insurance of instantaneous conservation of particle number on charge and heat transport in a thermal QCD medium. The second aim is to see how the dimensional reduction due to strong magnetic field (B) modulates the transport through the entangled effects, {\em such as} collision-time and occupation probability etc. in collision integral. The final aim is to check how the quasiparticle description through dispersion relation of thermal QCD in strong B, alters the aforesaid conclusions. We observe that modified collision term expedites both transport, which is manifested by large magnitudes of electrical ($\sigma_{\rm el}$) and thermal ($\kappa$) conductivities, in comparison to relaxation-collision term. As a corollary, Lorenz number is dominated by the later and Knudsen number is by the former. However, strong B not only flips the dominance of collision term in heat transport, it also causes drastic enhancement of both $\sigma_{\rm el}$ and $\kappa$ and reduction in specific heat. As a result, the equilibration factor, Knudsen number becomes much larger than one, which defies physical interpretation. Finally, quasiparticle description in the absence of strong B impedes the transport of charge and heat, resulting in the meagre decrease of conductivities, however, strong B does noticeable observations: conductivities now gets reduced to physically plausible values, T-dependence of $\sigma_{\rm el}$ gets reversed, {\em i.e.} it now decreases with T, effect of collision integral gets smeared in $\kappa$ etc. Knudsen number thus becomes much smaller than one, implying that the system be remained in equilibrium. These findings attribute to the fact that the collective modes in the dispersion relation of thermal QCD in strong B sets in much larger scale, manifested by large in-medium masses.