Reading List

Below we list papers relevant to CNR physics that can be used for discussion.  The topics include

Conceptual Foundations of QFT 

1. THE CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF QUANTUM FIELD THEORY Gerard t Hooft(http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/ hooft101/lectures/basisqft.pdf) 

2. An Introduction To Quantum Field Theory by Michael E. Peskin, Daniel

3. V. Schroeder(http://www.fulviofrisone.com/attachments/article/483/Peskin, 

4. Lectures on Quantum Field Theory by David Tong (http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/qft.html) 

5. Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell Textbook by Anthony Zee

6. The Quantum Theory of Fields Volume I and II by Steven Weinberg

7. A First Book of Quantum Field Theory by Amitabha Lahiri Palash B. 

General QGP related papers

Equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermal field theory

1. Basics of Thermal Field Theory, A Tutorial on Perturbative Computations 

Mikko Laine and Aleksi Vuorinen

http://www.laine.itp.unibe.ch/basics.pdf 

2. EQUILIBRIUM AND NONEQUILIBRIUM FORMALISMS MADE UNIFIED

Kuang-chao CHOU, Zhao-bin SU, Bai-lin HAO and Lu YU

http://www.itp.ac.cn/~hao/CTPGF85.pdf

https://ac.els-cdn.com/037015738590136X/1-s2.0-037015738590136X-main.pdf?_tid=7cdf871a-de48-4a05-a269-35077eee26a3&acdnat=1550103473_4cf794e887cff01e737dacfe75c87659

3. REAL- AND IMAGINARY-TIME FIELD THEORY AT FINITE TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY, N.P. LANDSMAN and Ch.G. van WEERT

https://ac.els-cdn.com/0370157387901219/1-s2.0-0370157387901219-main.pdf?_tid=df9c3d88-dd8f-4a11-b13e-4de93cce940d&acdnat=1550103291_53f3ee325d9c04030406bdf92798febc

4. H. Kleinert, PATH INTEGRALS, Nonequilibrium Quantum Statistics

http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/b5/psfiles/pi.pdf

http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~kleinert/b5/psfiles/pthic18.pdf

The Color Glass Condensate (CGC)

1. The Color Glass Condensate

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.0333.pdf

2. Gluon saturation and inclusive hadron production at LHC

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1005.0631.pdf

3. Unintegrated dipole gluon distribution at small transverse momentum

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01637.pdf

QGP and Early universe:

1. Quarks in the Universe (https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2142v1)

2. Cosmological Consequences of QCD Phase Transition(s) in Early Universe (https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3825v1)

3. AdS/CFT Aspects of the Cosmological QCD Phase

Transition (https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2601v3)

4. Connecting QGP-Heavy Ion Physics to the Early Universe (https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2471v1)

5. Traveling through the Universe: Back in Time to the Quark-Gluon Plasma Era (https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.2471v1)

6. The time evolution of the quark-gluon plasma in the early Universe (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/630/1/012028/pdf)

7. Quark-gluon plasma in the early universe (https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101516v1)

8. Astrophysical Aspects of Quark-Gluon Plasma (https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101516v1)

9. The effective quark-antiquark potential in the quark-gluon plasma from gravity dual models (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/046/pdf)

10. Studying the Early Universe via Quark-Gluon Plasma

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092056321300652X?via%3Dihub

Dense Nuclear Matter

[1]  Soft and Hard Probes of QCD Topological Structures in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Shuzhe Shi [book]

[2]  Deformation of neutron stars due to poloidal magnetic fields K. Yanase, N. Yoshinaga, E. Nakano, C. Watanabe

[3]  Equation of state at finite densities for QCD matter in nuclear collisions Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen

[4]Determination of the equation of state of dense matter Paweł Danielewicz,  Roy Lacey, William G. Lynch

[5] The Deconfinement Phase Transition in Proto-Neutron-Star Matter J. Roark and V. Dexheimer

[6] Dark matter interactions with muons in neutron stars Raghuveer Garani and Julian Heeck

[7]  New Equations Of State In Simulations Of Core-Collapse Supernovae M. Hempel, T. Fischer, J. Schaffner-Bielich, and M. Liebendörfer 

[8] Phase transitions in dense matter Veronica Dexheimer, Matthias Hempel, Igor Iosilevskiy ,Stefan Schramm   

[9] Neutron stars and the equation of state  S. Schramm, V. Dexeheimer, A. Mukherjee and J. Steinheimer 

[10] Are nuclear matter properties correlated to neutron star observables ? Jin-Biao Wei , Jia-Jing Lu , G. F. Burgio , Z. H. Li , and H.-J. Schulze 

[11] Magnetorotational core collapse of possible GRB progenitors. I. Explosion mechanisms. M. Obergaulinger, M.Á. Aloy

[12] Conditions for phase equilibrium in supernovae, protoneutron, and neutron stars M. Hempel, G. Pagliara, and J. Schaffner-Bielich

[13] The key factor to determine the relation between radius and tidal deformability of neutron stars: slope of symmetry energy Nai-Bo Zhang, Bin Qi, Shou-Yu Wang

[14] New aspects of the QCD phase transition in protoneutron stars and core-collapse supernovae  Matthias Hempel, Oliver Heinimann, Andrey Yudin, Igor Iosilevskiy, Matthias Liebendorfer and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

[15] Instability of twisted magnetar magnetospheres J. F. Mahlmann, T. Akgun, J. A. Pons , M.A. Aloy and P. Cerd´a-Dur´an

Heavy quarkonium physics

Solving the Lindblad equation of heavy quarkonia using Quantum trajectory method

1. Quantum trajectories and open many-body quantum systems

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.6694.pdf 

2. Quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions: An open quantum system approach

https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.034021 

3. Heavy quarkonium suppression in a fireball

https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.074009

Real-time evolution of heavy quarkonia using stochastic potential (including noise term)

1. Stochastic potential and quantum decoherence of heavy quarkonium in the quark-gluon plasma

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.1203.pdf 

2. Quantum dynamical dissociation of quarkonia by wave function decoherence in quark-gluon plasma 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375947418304329 

3. Dynamical dissociation of quarkonia by wave function decoherence 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03365.pdf 

AdS/CFT-correspondence and heavy quark complex-potential

1. Heavy Quark Potential at Finite Temperature Using the Holographic Correspondence (/ in AdS/CFT Revisited)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0807.4747.pdf 

2. Time-dependent heavy-quark potential at finite temperature from gauge-gravity duality

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1211.4942.pdf 

3. Thermal width of the Upsilon at Large t’ Hooft Coupling

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.3062.pdf 

4. Introduction to String Theory and Gauge/Gravity duality for students in QCD and QGP phenomenology

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0804.3210.pdf 

5. Wilson loops in large N field theories

https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9803002.pdf 

6. The Heavy Quark Potential as a Function of Shear Viscosity at Strong Coupling

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.2804.pdf 

Heavy quarkonium suppression using real-time evolution

1. Heavy quarkonium suppression beyond the adiabatic limit

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.05676.pdf 

2. Sequential suppression of quarkonia and high-energy nucleus–nucleus collisions

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.2149.pdf 

Heavy quarkonium as an Open Quantum system and derivation of the Lindblad equation

1. Heavy quark master equations in the Lindblad form at high temperatures

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.5783.pdf

(Ref of 1: 15): Real-time quantum dynamics of heavy quark systems at high temperature

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.5068.pdf

2. A simpler derivation of the Lindblad equation

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1110.2122.pdf

3. Color Instabilities in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.08946.pdf

Open Quantum System and Real-time QFT

1. Open Quantum Systems

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-51-quantum-theory-of-radiation-interactions-fall-2012/lecture-notes/MIT22_51F12_Ch8.pdf

Complex-potential and its impact on the suppression of heavy quarkonia 

1.     Thermal Bottomonium Suppression at RHIC and LHC

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.2761.pdf

(Ref of 1: 41): The heavy-quark potential in an anisotropic plasma

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0711.4722.pdf

(Ref of 1: 42): Quarkonium states in an anisotropic QCD plasma

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0901.1998.pdf

(Ref of 1: 44): The imaginary part of the static gluon propagator in an anisotropic (viscous) QCD plasma

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0903.4703.pdf

(Ref of 1: 46): Quarkonium states in a complex-valued potential

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.4651.pdf

(Ref of 1: 54): Dissipative Dynamics of Highly Anisotropic Systems

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.0889.pdf

(Ref of 1: 55): Non-boost-invariant anisotropic dynamics

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.3056.pdf

(Ref of 1: 57): Collective Modes of an Anisotropic Quark-Gluon Plasma

https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0304092.pdf

(Ref of 1: 62): Heavy Quark Potentials and Quarkonia Binding

https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-lat/0502008.pdf

2. Predictions for Bottomonia Suppression in 5.023 TeV Pb-Pb Collisions

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.03561.pdf

3. The static hard-loop gluon propagator to all orders in anisotropy

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.08091.pdf

4. Thermal imaginary part of a real-time static potential from classical lattice gauge theory simulations

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0707.2458.pdf

5. Real-time static potential in hot QCD

https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-ph/0611300.pdf

6. The approach to equilibrium of a quarkonium in a quark-gluon plasma

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.07996.pdf

Solving SWE:

1. A Parallel Algorithm for Solving the 3d Schrodinger Equation

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.0939.pdf

2. Solving the Schrodinger equation using the finite difference time domain method

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8113/40/8/013/pdf

Supersymmetry and Supersymmetric QFTS 

1. Cambridge Lectures on Supersymmetry and Extra Dimensions (https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1491) 

2. The quantum theory of fields, Volume III Supersymmetry Steven Weinberg 

3. Labelle P. Supersymmetry DeMYSTiFied 

4. Lecture Notes On Supersymmetry by E witten 

5. Introduction to Supersymmetry by Joseph Conlon (https://www-thphys.physics.ox.ac.uk/people/JosephConlon/LectureNotes/SUSYLectures.pdf)

6. Introduction to Supersymmetry and Supergravity BY Jan Louis(http : //www.desy.de/ jlouis/V orlesungen/SUSY15/susysugra15.pdf) 

7. INTRODUCTION TO SUPERSYMMETRY by Philip Argyres (http://homepages.uc.edu/argyrepc/cu66 gr-SUSY/susy1996.pdf) 

8. Lectures on Supersymmetry by I. Sachs (https : //www.physik.uni − muenchen.de/lehre/vorlesungen/wise0708/tb3/vorlesung/susynotes.pdf) 

9. String Theory and ADS/CFT Correspondence 

10. What is String Theory? by Joseph Polchinski (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep- th/9411028) 

11. Superstring Theory (1987), by Green, Schwarz and Witten String Theory (1998), by Polchinski Volume I and II.  http : //cds.cern.ch/record/902834/f iles/9781842652497T OC.pdf

12. A First Course in String Theory (2004), by Zwiebach 

13. Video Lectures on String theory by S Minwalla( http://theory.tifr.res.in/min- walla/) 

14. The large-N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity by Juan Maldacena (https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9711200.pdf) 

15. TASI2003 Lectures on AdS/CFT by Juan Maldacena (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep- th/0309246) 

16. TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence by Igor R. Klebanov (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0009139) 

17. Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality by Joseph Polchinski (https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.6134) 

18. Thermodynamics of QFTs and N=4 susy Yang- Mills 

19. Three-loop free energy for pure gauge QCD by Peter Arnold, Chengxing Zhai(https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9408276) 

20. The Three-Loop Free Energy for High-Temperature QED and QCD with Fermions by Peter Arnold, Chengxing Zhai (arXiv:hep-ph/9410360 ) 

21. Three-loop HTL Free Energy for QED by Jens O. Andersen, Michael Strickland, Nan Su (https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2936) 

22. Three-loop HTL QCD thermodynamics by Jens O. Andersen, Lars E. Leganger, Michael Strickland, Nan Su (https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2528) 

23. N=4 Super Yang-Mills Plasma by Alina Czajka, Stanislaw Mrowczynski (https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1856) 

24. Thermodynamics of Large-N Super Yang-Mills Theory and AdS/CFT Correspondence by Chanju Kim, Soo-Jong Rey (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep- th/9905205) 

25. Effective field theory approach to N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills at fi- nite temperature by Agustin Nieto (CERN), Michel H.G. Tytgat (Brussels) (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906147) 

26. Remarks on Two-Loop Free Energy in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills

27. Theory at Finite Temperature by A. Fotopoulos, T.R. Taylor (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep- th/9811224) 

28. A note on supersymmetric Yang-Mills thermodynamics by M.A. Vazquez- Mozo (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905030) 

Bose-Einstein condensation, dark energy, and dark matter

1. Bose Einstein Condensation as Dark Energy and Dark Matter 

https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0403571.pdf

2. Stagflation — Bose-Einstein condensation in the early universe

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0173.pdf

3. Dark matter as a Bose–Einstein Condensate: the relativistic non-minimally coupled case

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.3753.pdf

4. Bose-Einstein condensation as an alternative to inflation

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02658.pdf

5. Relativistic Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the cosmological Bose Einstein Condensation 

-Quantum Structure in Universe

https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0509789.pdf

Strong to weak coupling approach to thermalization

1.   From strong to weak coupling in holographic models of thermalization 

2.  Retarded Correlators in Kinetic Theory: Branch Cuts, Poles and Hydrodynamic Onset Transitions

2.  Minkowski-space correlators in AdS/CFT correspondence: recipe and applications

3.  From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics

4.  Second-order transport, quasinormal modes and zero-viscosity limit in the Gauss-Bonnet holographic fluid 

5.  Holography and hydrodynamics with weakly broken symmetries

6 . Coupling constant corrections in a holographic model of heavy ion collisions

Useful videos

For those interested in hydrodynamics here is a series of lectures at OSU by Paul Romatschke

Romatschke OSU Lectures