%0 Journal Article %T Chaos Driven by Soft-Hard Mode Coupling in Thermal Yang-Mills Theory %A T. S. Biro %A S. G. Matinyan %A B. Muller %J Physics %D 1995 %I arXiv %R 10.1016/0370-2693(95)01205-5 %X We argue on a basis of a simple few mode model of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory that the color off-diagonal coupling of the soft plasmon to hard thermal excitations of the gauge field drives the collective plasma oscillations into chaotic motion despite the presence of the plasmon mass. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9504303v3