• Anomalous low-temperature thermodynamics of QCD in strong magnetic fields 

      Brauner, Tomas; Kadam, Saurabh (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-11)
      The thermodynamics of quantum chromodynamics at low temperatures and in sufficiently strong magnetic fields is governed by neutral pions. We analyze the interacting system of neutral pions and photons at zero baryon chemical ...
    • Bayesian uncertainty quantification of perturbative QCD input to the neutron-star equation of state 

      Gorda, Tyler; Komoltsev, Oleg; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The equation of state of neutron-star cores can be constrained by requiring a consistent connection to the perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations at high densities. The constraining power of the QCD input ...
    • Broad excitations in a 2+1D overoccupied gluon plasma 

      Boguslavski, Kirill; Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Lappi, Tuomas; Peuron, Jarkko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)
      Motivated by the initial stages of high-energy heavy-ion collisions, we study excitations of far-from-equilibrium 2+1 dimensional gauge theories using classical-statistical lattice simulations. We evolve field perturbations ...
    • Bubble nucleation and quantum initial conditions in classical statistical simulations 

      Tranberg, Anders; Ungersbäck, Gerhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Classical-statistical lattice simulations provide a useful approximation to outof-equilibrium quantum field theory, but only for systems exhibiting large occupation numbers, and only for phenomena that are not intrinsically ...
    • Chiral soliton lattice in QCD-like theories 

      Brauner, Tomas; Filios, Georgios; Kolesova, Helena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Recently, it has been shown that the ground state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in suffciently strong magnetic fields and at moderate baryon number chemical potential carries a crystalline condensate of neutral pions: ...
    • Collective flow in single-hit QCD kinetic theory 

      Kurkela, Eero Aleksi; Mazeliauskas, Aleksas; Törnkvist, Robin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-11)
      Motivated by recent interest in collectivity in small systems, we calculate the harmonic flow response to initial geometry deformations within weakly coupled QCD kinetic theory using the first correction to the free-streaming ...
    • The complex heavy-quark potential in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma — Statics and dynamics 

      Dong, Lihua; Guo, Yun; Islam, Ajaharul; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl; Strickland, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We generalize a complex heavy-quark potential model from an isotropic QCD plasma to an anisotropic one by replacing the Debye mass mD with an anisotropic screening mass depending on the quark pair alignment with respect ...
    • Exceptional nonrelativistic effective field theories with enhanced symmetries 

      Brauner, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We initiate the classification of nonrelativistic effective field theories (EFTs) for Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons, possessing a set of redundant, coordinate-dependent symmetries. Similarly to the relativistic case, such ...
    • Field theories with higher-group symmetry from composite currents 

      Brauner, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Higher-form symmetries are associated with transformations that only act on extended objects, not on point particles. Typically, higher-form symmetries live alongside ordinary, point-particle (0-form), symmetries and they ...
    • Gauging discrete symmetries of TN-theories in five dimensions 

      Acharya, Bobby; Lambert, Neil; Najjar, Marwan; Svanes, Eirik Eik; Tian, Jiahua (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We study the gauging of a discrete ℤ3 symmetry in the five-dimensional superconformal TN theories. We argue that this leads to an infinite sequence of five-dimensional superconformal theories with either E6 × SU(N) or SU(3) ...
    • Heavy quark diffusion in an overoccupied gluon plasma 

      Boguslavski, Kirill; Kurkela, Aleksi; Lappi, Tuomas; Peuron, Jarkko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09)
      We extract the heavy-quark diffusion coefficient κ and the resulting momentum broadening 〈p2〉 in a far-from-equilibrium non-Abelian plasma. We find several features in the time dependence of the momentum broadening: a short ...
    • A Heterotic Kodaira--Spencer Theory at One-Loop 

      Ashmore, Anthony; Murgas Ibarra, Javier Jose; McNutt, David Duncan; Strickland-Constable, Charles; Svanes, Eirik Eik; Tennyson, David; Winje, Sander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-10)
      We consider a heterotic version of six-dimensional Kodaira-Spencer gravity derived from the heterotic superpotential. We compute the one-loop partition function and find it can be expressed as a product of holomorphic ...
    • Heterotic quantum cohomology 

      McOrist, Jock; Svanes, Eirik Eik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-11)
      It is believed, but not demonstrated, that the large radius massless spectrum of a heterotic string theory compactified to four-dimensional Minkowski space should obey equations that split into ‘F-terms’ and ‘D-terms’ in ...
    • Lattice study of static quark-antiquark interactions in dense quark matter 

      Astrakhantsev, Nikita Yu.; Bornyakov, Vitaly G.; Braguta, Victor V.; Ilgenfritz, Ernst-Michael; Kotov, Andrey Yuryevich; Nikolaev, Alexander A.; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05)
      In this paper we study the interactions among a static quark-antiquark pair in the presence of dense two-color quark matter with lattice simulation. To this end we compute Polyakov line correlation functions and determine ...
    • New G2-conifolds in M-theory and their field theory interpretation 

      Svanes, Eirik Eik; Acharya, Bobby S.; Foscolo, Lorenzo; Najjar, Marwan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A recent theorem of Foscolo-Haskins-Nordström [1] which constructs complete G2-holonomy orbifolds from circle bundles over Calabi-Yau cones can be utilised to construct and investigate a large class of generalisations of ...
    • No room to hide: implications of cosmic-ray upscattering for GeV-scale dark matter 

      Alvey, James; Bringmann, Torsten; Kolesova, Helena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The irreducible upscattering of cold dark matter by cosmic rays opens up the intriguing possibility of detecting even light dark matter in conventional direct detection experiments or underground neutrino detectors. The ...
    • Nonrelativistic effective field theories with enhanced symmetries and soft behavior 

      Mojahed, Martin Aria; Brauner, Tomas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We systematically explore the landscape of nonrelativistic effective field theories with a local S-matrix and enhanced symmetries and soft behavior. The exploration is carried out using both conventional quantum field ...
    • Optimisation of Thimble simulations and quantum dynamics of multiple fields in real time 

      Woodward, Simon; Saffin, Paul M.; Mou, Zonggang; Tranberg, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We apply the Generalised Thimble approach to the computation of exact path integrals and correlators in real-time quantum field theory. We first investigate the details of the numerical implementation and ways of optimizing ...
    • Proper static potential in classical lattice gauge theory at finite T 

      Lehmann, Alexander; Rothkopf, Alexander Karl (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We compute the proper real-time interaction potential between a static quark and antiquark in classical lattice gauge theory at finite temperature. Our central result is the determination of the screened real-part of this ...
    • Quantum corrections to slow-roll inflation: scalar and tensor modes 

      Andersen, Jens Oluf; Eriksson, Magdalena Britt; Tranberg, Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Inflation is often described through the dynamics of a scalar field, slow-rolling in a suitable potential. Ultimately, this inflaton must be identified with the expectation value of a quantum field, evolving in a quantum ...