My research mainly focuses on studying matter far from equilibrium. In particular, I am interested in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) (the theory of the nuclear strong force) in extreme settings, such as when the energy density is large and/or there is a strong magnetic field. Physically, this is reminiscent of the universe moments after the Big Bang, and we can approximately recreate this by studying the the matter created from the collision of two heavy nuclei moving very close to the speed of light. My current focuses include studies of QCD in the high energy-density (small Bjorken-x) regime and it's implications for initial state physics of ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions (based on the Color Glass Condensate effective field theory) ; anomaly induced transport phenomena, like the Chiral Magnetic Effect; and non-equilibrium field theory. I am very interested in what we can learn from real-time lattice field theory, primarily utilizing large scale numerical simulations. I am also interested in applications of these topics in condensed matter, atomic, and astrophysical settings.
My Academic CV (Outdated - last updated August 28, 2019)
QCD Challenges from pp to A-A Collisions Write-up of third International Workshop on QCD Challenges from pp to A-A (M.M. was topical convenor) arxiv.org/2003.10997 J. Adolfsson et al (including MM)
Chirality transfer & chiral turbulence in gauge theories Quark Matter 2019 Proceedings arxiv:2003.00763
Chiral instabilities & the onset of chiral turbulence in QED plasmas. Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191604 (2020). arXiv:1910.01654 M.M., Niklas Mueller, Sören Schlichting, Sayantan Sharma
Gauge-invariant condensation in the nonequilibrium quark-gluon plasma. arXiv:1909.06147 Jürgen Berges, Kirill Boguslavski, M.M., Jan M. Pawlowski
Magnetic fields in heavy ion collisions: flow and charge transport. arXiv:1908.07605 Gabriele Inghirami, M.M., Yuji Hirono, Luca Del Zanna, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Marcus Bleicher
Multiparticle correlations and collectivity in small systems from the initial state. (Proceeding for Quark Matter 2018); arXiv:1807.06032 Kevin Dusling, M.M., V. Skokov, Prithwish Tribedy, Raju Venugopalan
Systematics of azimuthal anisotropy harmonics in proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC from the Color Glass Condensate. Phys. Lett. B. 788 (2019) 161-165; arXiv:1807.00825 M.M., Vladimir V. Skokov, Prithwish Tribedy, Raju Venugopalan
Hierarchy of azimuthal anisotropy harmonics in collisions of small systems from the Color Glass Condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 052301 (2018); arXiv:1805.09342 M.M., Vladimir V. Skokov, Prithwish Tribedy, Raju Venugopalan
What does the matter created in high multiplicity proton-nucleus collisions teach us about the 3-D structure of the proton? PoS QCDEV2017 (2018) 039 (Proceedings for QCD Evolution 2017) arXiv:1801.09704 Kevin Dusling, M.M., Raju Venugopalan
Parton model description of multiparticle azimuthal correlations in pA collisions. Phys. Rev. D 97, 016014 (2018); arXiv:1706.06260 Kevin Dusling, M.M., Raju Venugopalan
Multiparticle collectivity from initial state correlations in high energy proton-nucleus collisions. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 042002 (2018); arXiv:1705.00745 Kevin Dusling, M.M., Raju Venugopalan
Simulating chiral magnetic effect and anomalous transport phenomena in the pre-equilibrium stages of heavy-ion collisions. Nucl. Phys. A 967 (2017) (Proceeding for Quark Matter 2017); arXiv:1704.05887 M.M., Niklas Mueller, Sören Schlichting, Sayantan Sharma
Universal self-similar scaling of spatial Wilson loops out of equilibrium. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 192005 (2017); arXiv:1703.00697 Jürgen Berges, M.M., Sören Schlichting
Non-equilibrium study of the Chiral Magnetic Effect from real-time simulations with dynamical fermions. Phys. Rev. D 95, 036023 (2017); arXiv:1612.02477 M.M., Niklas Mueller, Sören Schlichting, Sayantan Sharma
Off-equilibrium sphaleron transitions in the Glasma. Phys. Rev. D 93 074036 (2016); arXiv:1601.07342 M.M., Sören Schlichting, R. Venugopalan