  The real-time dynamics of topological defects and turbulent configurations of
gauge fields for electric and magnetic confinement are studied numerically
within a 2+1D Abelian Higgs model. It is shown that confinement is appearing in
such systems equilibrating after a strong initial quench such as the
overpopulation of the infrared modes. While the final equilibrium state does
not support confinement, metastable vortex defect configurations appear in the
gauge field which are found to be closely related to the appearance of
physically observable confined electric and magnetic charges. These phenomena
are seen to be intimately related to the approach of a non-thermal fixed point
of the far-from-equilibrium dynamical evolution, signalled by universal scaling
in the gauge-invariant correlation function of the Higgs field. Even when the
parameters of the Higgs action do not support condensate formation in the
vacuum, during this approach, transient Higgs condensation is observed. We
discuss implications of these results for the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of
Yang-Mills fields and potential mechanisms how confinement and condensation in
non-abelian gauge fields can be understood in terms of the dynamics of Higgs
models. These suggest that there is an interesting new class of dynamics of
strong coherent turbulent gauge fields with condensates.
