▪ Abstract We provide an overview of the present understanding of the transition from
hadrons to a quark-gluon plasma, its signatures, and the experimental results so far. We …

▪ Abstract The evolution of the universe is the ultimate laboratory for studying fundamental
physics across energy scales that span approximately 25 orders of magnitude. The standard …

Bringing together the key ideas from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and powerful
methodology from quantum field theory, this 2008 book captures the essence of …

We study the nonequilibrium evolution of the expectation value of a scalar field in the broken
and unbroken symmetry cases. We find that the particles produced by parametric …

We analyze the phenomenon of preheating, ie, explosive particle production due to
parametric amplification of quantum fluctuations in the unbroken symmetry case, or spinodal …

The description of strongly interacting quantum fields is based on two-particle irreducible
(2PI) approaches that allow for a consistent treatment of quantum systems out-of-equilibrium …

The quantum time evolution of φ 4-field theory for a spatially homogeneous system in 2+ 1
space-time dimensions is investigated numerically for out-of-equilibrium initial conditions on …

This is a critical review of the various observables that have been proposed to signal the
change from dense hadronic matter to a quark-gluon plasma at high temperature or baryon …

We consider the time evolution of systems in which a spatially homogeneous scalar field is
coupled to fermions. The quantum back reaction is taken into account in the one-loop …

The 1+ 1-dimensional abelian Higgs model with fermions is a toy model for the theory of
electroweak baryogenesis. We study the dynamics of the model with axially coupled …