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Top quarks represent unique high-energy systems since their spin correlations can be measured, thus allowing to study fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics with qubits at high-energy colliders. We present here the general framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Yoav Afik , Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

Strongly interacting fermions represent the key constituent of several intriguing phases of matter. However, due to the inherent complexity of these systems, important regimes are still inaccessible. Here, we derive a realistic and flexible…

We investigate the formation of toponium in the single-leptonic final state at the LHC. Our study builds on our recently proposed framework that incorporates the associated non-perturbative effects into Monte Carlo simulations through the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-27 Benjamin Fuks , Kaoru Hagiwara , Kai Ma , Léandre Munoz-Aillaud , Ya-Juan Zheng

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics leading to the formation of topological defects in a symmetry-breaking phase transition of a quantum scalar field with \lambda\Phi^4 self-interaction in a spatially flat, radiation-dominated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. J. Stephens , E. A. Calzetta , B. L. Hu , S. A. Ramsey

We study bottomonium $b\bar b$ production in pp collisions as well as in heavy-ion collisions, using a quantal density matrix approach. The initial bottom (anti)quarks are provided by the PYTHIA event generator. We solve the Schr\"odinger…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-01-19 Taesoo Song , Joerg Aichelin , Jiaxing Zhao , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Elena Bratkovskaya

The static properties and dynamic evolution of bottomonium states in a hot QCD medium are investigated through the Schr\"odinger equation with complex heavy quark potentials, which are presented recently in lattice QCD study and with three…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-20 Ge Chen , Baoyi Chen , Jiaxing Zhao

The notion of topological phases extended to dynamical systems stimulates extensive studies, of which the characterization of non-equilibrium topological invariants is a central issue and usually necessitates the information of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Danying Yu , Bo Peng , Xianfeng Chen , Xiong-Jun Liu , Luqi Yuan

Topological phase transitions challenge conventional paradigms in many-body physics by separating phases that are locally indistinguishable yet globally distinct. Using a quantum simulator of interacting erbium atoms in an optical lattice,…

In this proceedings contribution I review recent progress concerning the suppression of bottomonium production in the quark-gluon plasma. Making use of open quantum system methods applied to potential non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-03 Michael Strickland

We describe bottomonium production not only in pp collisions but also in heavy-ion collisions by using the Remler's formalism where quarkonium density operator is applied to all possible combination of heavy quark and heavy antiquark pairs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Taesoo Song , Joerg Aichelin , Jiaxing Zhao , Pol B. Gossiaux , Elena Bratkovskaya

We present a data-driven analysis within a quantum evolutionary microscopic framework to constrain the in-medium bottomonium potential. In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, bottomonium bound states serve as invaluable probes of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Shuhan Zheng , Baoyi Chen , Xiaojian Du , Shuzhe Shi

Higher-form symmetries are a valuable tool for classifying topological phases of matter. However, emergent higher-form symmetries in interacting many-body quantum systems are not typically exact due to the presence of topological defects.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-04 Jay Armas , Akash Jain

We have studied the thermal suppression of the bottomonium states in relativistic heavy-ion collision at LHC energies as function of centrality, rapidity, transverse momentum etc. to explain the CMS data. Our investigation mainly spans over…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-15 Uttam Kakade , Binoy Krishna Patra , Lata Thakur

An exploratory study of the exclusive production of a vector - toponium $\psi_t$ state by photon - hadron interactions is performed considering proton - proton and proton - nucleus collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and Future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-16 Victor P. Goncalves , Luana Santana , Bruno D. Moreira

We suggest that the ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy ions provide the simplest situation for the study of strong interactions which can be understood from first principles and without any model assumptions about the microscopic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Makhlin

Quarkonium production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions remains a key probe of the quark-gluon plasma formed in these reactions, but the development of a fully integrated nonperturbative approach remains a challenge. Toward this end, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Biaogang Wu , Ralf Rapp

The production of ground-state and excited bottomonia in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is investigated within a kinetic-rate equation approach including regeneration. We augment our previous calculations by an improved treatment of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 Xiaojian Du , Min He , Ralf Rapp

One of the most striking features of quantum mechanics is the appearance of phases of matter with topological origins. These phases result in remarkably robust macroscopic phenomena such as the edge modes in integer quantum Hall systems,…

Bottomonium production in heavy ion collisions is modified compared with any simple extrapolation from elementary collisions. This modification is most likely caused by the presence of a deconfined system of quarks and gluons for times of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-11 P. Petreczky , C. Young

Production of heavy quark antiquark systems in high energy heavy ion collisions must involve relativistic momentum components in a quantum mechanical approach. If the color forces are screened in a deconfining medium, one can define the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. L. Thews