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This course consists of two lectures. In the first lecture I discuss why a non perturbative formulation of QCD is needed, and I show that lattice formulation copes with this need, even if it mainly produces numerical results. In the second…

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This paper offers a comprehensive overview of recent technological advancements concerning the critical point of chiral phase transition, with a particular focus on Effective Field. Theories in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). It delves into…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-09 Jingxu Wu , Congyu Li , Yan Wang , Tuerdi Wumaier

These are lecture notes of the QFT-I course I gave in an online mode at Chennai Mathematical Institute. The course focussed on the free relativistic quantum fields, their interactions in the perturbative scattering framework, standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-07 Ghanashyam Date

The first lecture provides an introduction to the physics of color superconductivity in cold dense quark matter. The main color superconducting phases are briefly described and their properties are listed. The second lecture covers recent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor A. Shovkovy

Searches for new physics will increasingly depend on identifying deviations from precision Standard Model (SM) predictions. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) will necessarily play a central role in this endeavor as it provides the framework for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Aleksander Kusina , Florian Lyonnet , Fredrick I. Olness , Ingo Schienbein

In this talk, we briefly review the current understanding of the behavior of the QCD equation of state throughout the phase diagram. Special emphasis is given to regions of phenomenological interest, and a number of important open questions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-28 Aleksi Vuorinen

In this series of lectures, we would like to introduce the audience to quantum optimal control. The first lecture will cover basic ideas and principles of optimal control with the goal of demystifying its jargon. The second lecture will…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Frank K. Wilhelm , Susanna Kirchhoff , Shai Machnes , Nicolas Wittler , Dominique Sugny

We review the theory of hard exclusive scattering in Quantum Chromodynamics. After recalling the classical counting rules which describe the leading scale dependence of form factors and exclusive cross-sections at fixed angle, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Bernard Pire

We present the fundamental principles behind quantum key distribution and discuss a few well-known QKD protocols. Bearing in mind that the majority of our readers are from engineering and experimental optics, we focus more on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Bing Qi , Li Qian , Hoi-Kwong Lo

A general introduction is given in chapter 1. Chapter 2 outlines the main features of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the theoretical motivations for going beyond it. We subsequently provide brief descriptions of a few…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-30 Andreas Papaefstathiou

In these lectures, we introduce finite temperature QCD on the lattice to non-experts of the subject. We first formulate lattice QCD both at zero and finite temperatures. Then a section is devoted to the topic of improved lattice actions…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Kanaya

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is generally assumed to be the fundamental theory underlying nuclear physics. In recent years there is progress towards investigating the nucleon structure from first principles of QCD. Although this structure…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-20 W. Bietenholz , N. Cundy , M. Gockeler , R. Horsley , H. Perlt , D. Pleiter , P. E. L. Rakow , G. Schierholz , A. Schiller , T. Streuer , J. M. Zanotti

In this introductory article a brief description of Quantum Field Theories (QFT) is presented with emphasis on the distinction between strongly and weakly coupled theories. A case is made for using numerical simulations to solve QCD, the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2007-05-23 Rajan Gupta

This talk gives a brief introduction to open questions in jet physics and QCD which come to the fore in the high-luminosity regime characterizing the upcoming phase of the Large Hadron Collider and future hadron colliders.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-12 F. Hautmann

Strongly interacting matter exhibits new phases under extreme conditions. Matter was exposed to such extremes not only in the Early Universe, but also today in the cores of neutron stars, as well as in laboratory experiments at a much…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-10 Szabolcs Borsanyi , Paolo Parotto

We review the basic concepts of perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and relativistic hydrodynamics, and their applications to hadron production in high energy nuclear collisions. We discuss results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Rainer J. Fries , Chiho Nonaka

This brief review presents the key components of light-front holographic quantum chromodynamics (HLFQCD). Particular attention is given to the introduction of the QCD color confinement scale within the context of a graded superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-24 Hans Guente Dosch , Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky

We review the current methods and results of lattice simulations of quantum chromodynamics at nonzero temperatures and densities. The review is intended to introduce the subject to interested nonspecialists and beginners. It includes a…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-07-24 C. E. DeTar , U. M. Heller

Quantum Computing is an exciting field that draws from information theory, computer science, mathematics, and quantum physics to process information in fundamentally new ways. There is an ongoing race to develop practical quantum computers…

Physics Education · Physics 2023-05-16 Tunde Kushimo , Beth Thacker

Quantum computers are expected to give major speed-ups for the simulation of quantum systems. In these conference proceedings, we discuss quantum algorithms for the simulation of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) processes. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Mathieu Pellen