Research

Research interests

• quantum field theory on and off the lattice
• QCD phase diagram; confinement and chiral symmetry breaking
• cosmological phase transitions
• physics of compact stars
• background electromagnetic fields in quantum field theories
• simulation algorithms for lattice field theories
• effective theories for QCD

You can find my complete publication list on iNSPIREhep, or also on ORCID, PUB and GScholar.

Recent research highlights

Chiral charges are separated in dense magnetized QCD. [link]
QCD phase diagram in a background electric field. [link]
Hofstadter's butterfly is deformed in inhomogeneous magnetic fields. [link]
Superconformal values of the speed of sound are reached in isospin-asymmetric QCD matter. [link]
Equilibrium charge distribution in the presence of an oscillatory external electric field. [link]
Polyakov loop sectors and Roberge-Weiss phase transitions in the QCD phase diagram from perturbation theory. [link]
Topologically nontrivial ground states emerge in the spontaneously broken phase of a spin model. [link]
The magnetic permeability of strongly interacting matter is calculated with a new method. [link]
The early Universe may undergo pion condensation for large lepton asymmetry. [link]
The Dirac eigenvalues spread out in the complex plane as the isospin chemical potential grows. [link]
A low-energy approximation of QCD is improved to match lattice results on inverse magnetic catalysis. [link]
Charged pions decay orders of magnitude faster if exposed to strong magnetic fields. [link]
The phase diagram of isospin-dense QCD exhibits a rich structure. [link] Figure represented in PRD's Kaleidoscope.
A generative neural network learns essential features of lattice scalar field theory. [link]