Related papers: Variational approach to dynamics of quantum fields
These are notes for lectures delivered at the NATO ASI on Dynamics in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July 1998. The main concepts relating to quantum phase transitions are explained, using the paramagnet-to-ferromagnet transition of itinerant…
Talk given at the conference "Visions in Mathematics toward the year 2000", August 1999, Tel-Aviv.
Notes of the lectures delivered in Les Houches during the Summer School on Complex Systems (July 2006).
These notes originated out of a set of lectures in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information given by one of us (MGAP) at the University of Napoli and the University of Milano. A quite broad set of issues are covered, ranging from elementary…
Lectures given at the Summer School on "Modern perspectives in lattice QCD", Les Houches, August 3-28, 2009
These notes partly touch the topic of the talk given by the author at the XXXVIII Workshop on Geometric Methods in Physics, hold in June-July 2019 in Bia\l{}owie\.{z}a, Poland. They consist of a short and self-contained introduction to the…
I discuss recent developments in lattice QCD thermodynamics on the nature of the transition at finite temperature and density, equation of state, screening of static charges and meson spectral functions at high temperatures.
These notes are an account of a series of lectures given at the Les Houches Summer School "Active Matter and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics" during August and September 2018. The lectures can be viewed online at…
We present an informal discussion of some aspects of strong interactions under extreme conditions of temperature and density at an elementary level. This summarizes lectures delivered at the 2013 CERN -- Latin-American School of High-Energy…
Plenary talk at PASCOS-98, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, March 22-29, 1998.
I give a pedagogical and historical introduction to axion physics, and briefly review the present status of axions in our understanding of particle physics and cosmology. This is a contribution to Continuous Advances in QCD 2002/Arkadyfest,…
Lectures given at the Summer School on "Modern perspectives in lattice QCD", Les Houches, August 3-28, 2009
Talk presented at NATO Gran Finale Conference, Como, Italy, September 1993
I discuss a comprehensive approach to the spacelike physics in high temperature QCD in three dimensions. The approach makes use of dimensional reduction. I suggest that this approach is useful for high temperature QCD in four dimensions.
We provide a concise review on recent theory advancements towards full-fledged (3+1)D dynamical descriptions of relativistic nuclear collisions at finite baryon density. Heavy-ion collisions at different collision energies produce…
Opening Lecture at the Second Rencontres du Vietnam, October 21-28, 1995.
After a brief historical review of the emergence of QCD as the quantum field theory of strong interactions, the basic notions of colour and gauge invariance are introduced leading to the QCD Lagrangian. The second lecture is devoted to…
After the first meeting in Copenhagen in 2001 QSQCD II is the second workshop in this series dealing with cosmic matter at very high density and its astrophysical implications. The aim is to bring together reseachers in the physics of…
Talk given at NATO ARW in Kiev (September 2000) "Non-commutative Structures in Mathematics and Physics".
The Les Houches Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders took place from June 8-18, 1999. One of the three working groups at Les Houches concentrated on QCD issues, both at the Tevatron Collider and at the LHC. Besides the interest in QCD in…