Research interests
key words
- Phase diagram of QCD
- confinement mechanism
- confinement & dynamical chiral symmetry breaking
- confinement-deconfinement phase transition
- QCD at finite density, quark-gluon plasma
- Ultracold gases
- BCS-BEC cross-over
- thermodynamics
- dynamical evolution
- Non-equilibrium evolution of quantum systems
- dynamical field theory
- many body dynamics of strongly correlated systems
- quark-gluon plasma out of equilibrium
- Quantum gravity & UV-completions of the Standard Model
- ultraviolet stability
- coupling to matter
- phenomenology
- Renormalisation group methods
- formal advances and structural aspects of RG methods
- optimisation of RG flows
- thermal flows: construction and applications
- gauge/diffeomorphism invariant RG flows in gauge theories & gravity
- high T_c superconductor (QED_3)
- Lattice gauge theory
- stochastic quantisation of gauge theories & fermionic systems (sign problem)
- chiral fermions on the lattice
- lattice formulation of chiral gauge theories
- supersymmetry on the lattice
- Topological aspects of QFT
- gauge defects and topological excitations: construction and effects
- explicit construction of instantons on compact spaces (tori)
- confinement mechanisms in toy models: Seiberg-Witten
- instanton-induced interactions and chiral symmetry breaking
- Conformal field theory/string theory
- path integral quantisation of Liouville theory
- AdS/CFT
- tachyon condensation