The renormalization group plays an essential role in many areas of physics, both
conceptually and as a practical tool to determine the long-distance low-energy properties of …

Gravitational waves are a unique probe of the early Universe, as the Universe is transparent
to gravitational radiation right back to the end of inflation. This review summarizes detection …

We discuss the phase structure of QCD for N f= 2 and N f= 2+ 1 dynamical quark flavors at
finite temperature and baryon chemical potential. It emerges dynamically from the …

This review provides a comprehensive summary of results on the physics of strongly
interacting matter in the presence of background electromagnetic fields, obtained via …

We review results for the phase diagram of QCD, the properties of quarks and gluons and
the resulting properties of strongly interacting matter at finite temperature and chemical …

We pave the way for future gravitational-wave detection experiments, such as the big bang
observer and DECIGO, to constraint dark sectors made of SU (N) Yang-Mills confined …

We provide a pedagogical review article on fundamentals and applications of the quantum
dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields in QED and QCD. The fundamentals include the …

Understanding the nature of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter is important but
challenging due to the presence of non-perturbative dynamics under extreme conditions …

Classically conformal Standard Model extensions predict an intriguing thermal history of the
early Universe. In contrast to the common paradigm, the onset of the electroweak phase …

A bstract We study under which conditions a first-order phase transition in a composite dark
sector can yield an observable stochastic gravitational-wave signal. To this end, we employ …