Figure 1

Unstable mode growth rates (a) ${\Gamma }_{\alpha }/m_D$ and (b) ${\Gamma }_{-}/m_D$ for $\xi =10$ as a function of $k_z/m_D$ and $\theta =\arctan (k_T/k_z)$ where $m_D$ is the Debye mass at the proper time ${\tau }_{\mathrm{iso}}$.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 2

Unstable mode growth rate $\Gamma /m_D$ for fixed $\xi$ as a function of $k_z/m_D$ where $m_D$ is the Debye mass at the proper time ${\tau }_{\mathrm{iso}}$.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 3

Chromoelectric, chromomagnetic, and total energy densities (5.1) as a function of proper time from averaging over our standard set of runs. Proper time is normalized such that when using $Q_s=2\mathrm{GeV}$ each unit of $\Delta \tilde{\tau }$ is 1 fm/c. See text for simulation parameters used.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 4

Total field energy density for different initial current fluctuation magnitudes $\Delta \in \{0.1,0.2,0.4,0.8\}$. See text for simulation parameters used.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 5

Hard particle and field pressures scaled by ${\tau }_0^3\tau$ as a function of proper time. The data were taken from the same set of runs as Fig. 3.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 6

Total longitudinal pressure over the total transverse pressure as a function of proper time. The data were taken from the same set of runs as Fig. 3.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 7

Total longitudinal pressure over the total transverse pressure as a function of proper time for different initial current fluctuation magnitudes $\Delta \in \{0.1,0.2,0.4,0.8\}$. The data were taken from the same runs as shown in Fig. 4.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 8

The longitudinal energy spectra at various proper times as a function of (a) $\nu$ and (b) $k_z=\nu /\tau$. Data taken from the averaged runs shown in Fig. 3.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 9

The longitudinal energy spectra at various proper times as a function of $\nu$ for Abelian runs. For this figure the spectra from 40 runs were averaged.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 10

Comparison of the longitudinal spectra data from Fig. 8 with fits (full lines) using the fit function (6.2) at six different proper times.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 11

The time-dependent longitudinal temperature extracted from the data contained in Fig. 8 using the fit function (6.2).Reuse & Permissions

Figure 12

Collected numerical tests of unstable mode growth. Each subpanel shows the chromofield total energy density evolution subject to variation of various parameters. The subcaptions contain a description of the parameters which are varied. (a) Variation of the initial random seed used for the current fluctuations (50 different runs). All parameters are the same as in Fig. 3, (b) Variation of the longitudinal cutoff, ${\Lambda }_{\nu }{\nu }_{\min }$ with ${\nu }_{\min }=1.96$, for the current fluctuation initial conditions. All parameters except ${\Lambda }_{\nu }$ are the same as in Fig. 3, (c) Variation of the transverse lattice spacing, $a$, while keeping the transverse lattice size, $L_T=N_{T}a$, fixed. All parameters except $a$ and $N_T$ are the same as in Fig. 3, (d) Variation of the transverse lattice size, $L_T=N_{T}a$, while keeping the transverse lattice spacing, $a$, fixed. All parameters except $N_T$ are the same as in Fig. 3, (e) Variation of the longitudinal lattice spacing, $a_{\eta }$, while keeping the longitudinal lattice size, $L_{\eta }=N_{\eta }{a}_{\eta }$, fixed. All parameters except $a_{\eta }$ and $N_{\eta }$ are the same as in Fig. 3, and (f) Variation of the longitudinal lattice size, $L_{\eta }=N_{\eta }{a}_{\eta }$, while keeping the longitudinal lattice spacing, $a_{\eta }$, fixed. All parameters except $N_{\eta }$ and $\Delta$ are the same as in Fig. 3.Reuse & Permissions

Figure 13

Evolution of a stable configuration initialized with Abelian longitudinal currents for different sized velocity lattices.Reuse & Permissions