Homepage Anton Rebhan

Ao. Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Anton Rebhan rebhana at tph.tuwien dot ac dot at +43-1-58801x13626

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TEACHING

Eine komplette Liste aller meiner im laufenden Studienjahr angekündigten Lehrveranstaltungen findet sich in der Institutsliste

Hier zu finden:

• Unterlagen zu meinen Lehrveranstaltungen (Skripten, Folien etc.),
• aktuelle Informationen zu meinen Lehrveranstaltungen, wie sie auch über TUWIS an abonnierte Hörer verschickt werden.

(Wie die Vorlesungen selbst, in einem bunten Gemisch aus Englisch und Deutsch:)

WS 2006/07

Information on and material for lectures of the current term

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Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics

TUWIS Eintrag

(Seit dem WS 2002/03 in englischer Sprache abgehalten und als englischsprachige Lehrveranstaltung anrechenbar)

Vorbesprechung

Montag, 8. 10. 2006, um 12:15 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
Wegen eines bevorstehenden Krankenhausaufenthaltes wird die Vorlesung geblockt in der zweiten Semesterhälfte abgehalten!

QED Lecture notes

(postscript file, 890KB) (pdf file, 581KB) (Englisch, 80 pp.)

Prüfungen

mündlich, Termine jederzeit nach Vereinbarung (z.B. per E-mail an rebhana at tph.tuwien dot ac dot at)

Hausaufgaben

Bei Abgabe von mindestens 60% (7 von 12) der wöchentlich ausgegebenen kurzen Hausaufgaben werden diese auf die mündliche Prüfung als Bonus angerechnet.

Liste der Hörer WS05/06 mit angerechneten Hausaufgaben

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Previous semesters

Information on and material for lectures of past semesters. Some material pertaining to even older lectures can still be found at my (now obsoleted) old official home page.

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Elektrodynamik und Relativitätstheorie VO (SS 2006)

Vorlesungsfolien (kapitelweise als PDF-files)

I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV, XV.

Vorlesungsskriptum

7. Aufl. erhältlich im Sekretariat E136 (10.OG) zum Preis von 10 €; oder on-line als PDF files
Nicht vorgetragen und daher auch nicht Prüfungsstoff: Kap. IV.2.C, VI.2.D, VI.4, X.1.A, XIII, XIV.4, XVI [NB: (XVI.29) schon in Kap. XI]

Ergänzende Literaturempfehlungen etc.

• H. Römer, M. Forger: Elementare Feldtheorie : Elektrodynamik, Hydrodynamik, spezielle Relativitätstheorie (VCH), on-line als PDF file am Freiburger Dokumentenserver abrufbar

• zur Auffrischung und Vertiefung der Methodenkenntnisse: K. Jähnich: Analysis für Physiker und Ingenieure (Springer)

• http://www.tempolimit-lichtgeschwindigkeit.de : Nette Homepage mit Visualisierungen zur Relativitätstheorie

Prüfungen

Modus und Termine: unter Exams#Prof._A._Rebhan

Übungen

• Link zur Homepage zu den Übungen zu Elektrodynamik und Relativitätstheorie, SS 2006 (132.053), von Doz. Balasin
• Link zur Homepage zu den Übungen zu Elektrodynamik und Relativitätstheorie, SS 2005 (132.053), von Prof. Nowotny

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Thermal quantum field theory (SS 2006)

(Bits of) Lecture Notes (postscript files):

1. Orders of magnitude in ultrarelativistic plasma physics (28K)
2. Basic formulae of statistical quantum mechanics (28 K)
3. Elementary modelling of the QCD phase transition (1.7M)
4. Many-particle propagators (96K)
5. Many-particle propagators for a scalar field theory (34K)
6. Perturbation theory at zero vs. nonzero temperature (36K)
7. Imaginary-time (Matsubara) formalism (34K)
8. Real-time (Keldysh) formalism (38K)
9. Decay and creation rates (21K)
10. Gauge theories at finite T (50K)
11. Linear response in gauge theories at finite T (53K)
12. Fermionic quasi-particles (42K)
13. Hard-thermal-loop resummation (26K)
14. Symmetry restoration in spontaneously broken theories (29K)

(More advanced) Lecture Notes from courses I gave at International Summer Schools:

• Schladming 2001: Thermal Gauge Field Theories (47 Seiten)
• Cargèse 2001: Hard thermal loops and QCD thermodynamics (26 Seiten)

September-October 2005 I held a series of lectures as "James H. Simons lecturer" at the YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook on Thermal Field Theory. Scanned lecture notes are available here.

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RESEARCH

Research positions held

• 1986-05-01 - 1989-12-31 ITP, TU Wien (Universitätsassistent)
• 1990-01-01 - 1991-12-31 Fellowship at the Theory Divison, CERN, Geneva (CH)
• 1992-01-01 - 1992-08-31 Scientific Associate at the Theory Divison of CERN
• 1992-03-01 - 1992-07-31 Boursier du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (France) at Laboratoire de Physique Théorique LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux (F)
• 1992-09-01 - 1993-03-31 ITP, TU Wien (Universitätsdozent)
• 1993-04-01 - 1993-10-31 C4-Lehrstuhlvertretung (Prof. F. Karsch), Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld (D)
• 1993-11-01 - 1995-10-31 Senior Research Associate at DESY, Gruppe Theorie, Hamburg (D)
• since 1995-11-01 ITP, TU Wien (Außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor)

Research Interests and Projects

My research interests comprise theoretical particle physics and its ramifications, in particular quantum field theory, supersymmetry, thermal field theory, and cosmology.

My main current research activities involve

Quantum field theory at finite temperature and density

which is the theoretical tool to analytically study quantum matter under extreme conditions. Of particular interest is the high-temperature regime of quantum chromodynamics which is supposed to describe the quark-gluon plasma that is hunted for in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions and also believed to exist in the interior of (some) neutron stars.

Quantum theory of (supersymmetric) solitons

Recently major progress in the understanding of non-perturbative aspects of (supersymmetric) field (and string) theories has been achieved by exploiting dualities in which quantized (supersymmetric) solitons play a central role. Initially it was thought that supersymmetric solitons saturating the so-called BPS bound are protected from quantum corrections, but in collaboration with Peter van Nieuwenhuizen from the State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, we have found, and are still working out, a number of subtleties and nontrivial results, in particular for 1+1-dimensional supersymmetric kinks (domain walls) and 3+1-dimensional monopoles.

Publications

I have written or co-authored over 100 scientific publications, most of which are available on-line (at least as arXiv.org e-prints) through:

• Hyperlinked list publications (HEP-SPIRES database)
  • TOPCITE publications (papers with more than 50 citations)

International Collaboration and Workshops

Research workshops and conferences where I am/was organizer or on the advisory board:

• 5th International Workshop on Thermal Field Theories and Their Applications: Regensburg, August 10 - 14, 1998 (organizing committee)
• ESI Research Program on Quantization, Generalized BRS Cohomology, and Anomalies: Vienna, September - November 1998 (organizing committee)
• Strong and Electroweak matter '98: Copenhagen, December 2-5, 1998 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2000: Marseilles, June 14-17, 2000 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2002: Heidelberg, October 2-5, 2002 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2004: Helsinki, June 16-19, 2004 (advisory board)
• Quark Matter 2005: Budapest, August 1-6, 2005 (regional advisory committee)
• Workshop on Quark-Gluon Plasma Thermalization, TU Vienna, August 10-12, 2005 (organizer)
• 2nd Vienna Central European Seminar on Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory - Frontiers in Astroparticle Physics, Uni Wien, November 25-27, 2005 (advisory board)
• Strong and Electroweak matter 2006, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY, May 10-13, 2006 (advisory board)
• INT Workshop on Nonequilibrium Quark-Gluon Plasma, University of Washington, Seattle, September 25-30, 2006 (organizer)

LINKS

List of my collaborators

List of collaborators with joint scientific publications and links to their present home institutions/home pages (where available)

1. Carl M. Bender (joint papers) Washington Univ., St. Louis (US)
2. Jean-Paul Blaizot (joint papers) ECT*, Trento (I)
3. Dietrich Bödeker (joint papers) Univ. Bielefeld (D)
4. Rosanne Di Stefano (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
5. Ian Drummond (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
6. Fritjof Flechsig (joint papers) Univ. Hannover (D)
7. Kazu Fujikawa (joint papers) Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
8. Peter Gaigg (joint papers) TU Wien (now: Siemens Austria)
9. Andreas Gerhold (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. of North Carolina, Raleigh (US)
10. Alfred S. Goldhaber (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
11. Ron Horgan (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
12. Edmond Iancu (joint papers) Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (F)
13. Andreas Ipp (joint papers) TU Wien (HP) → ECT*, Trento (I)
14. Keijo Kajantie (joint papers) University of Helsinki (Finland)
15. Robert Knienider (joint papers) TU Wien
16. Randy Kobes (joint papers) University of Winnipeg (Canada)
17. Ulrike Kraemmer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
18. Thomas Kreuzberger (joint papers) TU Wien
19. Maximilian Kreuzer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
20. Wolfgang Kummer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
21. Gabor Kunstatter (joint papers) University of Winnipeg (Canada)
22. Peter Landshoff (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
23. Martin Leblanc (joint papers) University of Waterloo (Canada)
24. Dietrich Liko (joint papers) TU Wien → HEPHY, Wien
25. Gerry McKeon (joint papers) University of Western Ontario (Canada)
26. Guy D. Moore (joint papers) McGill University, Montreal (Canada)
27. Stanisław Mrówczyński (joint papers) Sołtan Inst., Warsaw (PL)
28. Herbert Nachbagauer (joint papers) TU Wien → LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux (F) → Univ. Heidelberg (D)
29. Otto Nachtmann (joint papers) Univ. Heidelberg (D)
30. Horatiu Nastase (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → Brown Univ. (US)
31. Olivier Piguet (joint papers) Univ. Geneva (CH) → Espirito Santo Univ., Vitoria (Brazil)
32. Urko Reinosa (joint papers) Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (F) → TU Wien → Univ. Heidelberg (D)
33. Paul Romatschke (joint papers) TU Wien (HP) → Univ. Bielefeld → INT, Washington Univ., Seattle (US)
34. Robert Schöfbeck (joint papers) TU Wien → HEPHY, Wien
35. Hermann Schulz (joint papers) Univ. Hannover (D)
36. Dominik J. Schwarz (joint papers) Univ. Bielefeld (D)
37. Manfred Schweda (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
38. Tom Sherry (joint papers) University Coll., Galway (Ireland)
39. Misha Stephanov (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → Univ. of Chicago (US)
40. Mike Strickland (joint papers) Duke Univ. (US) → TU Wien → FIAS Frankfurt (D)
41. Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
42. Dmitri V. Vassilevich (joint papers) Univ. Leipzig (D)
43. Aleksi Vuorinen (joint papers) Univ. Helsinki (Finland) → Washington University, Seattle (US)
44. Robert Wimmer (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. Hannover → YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
45. Gunter Wirthumer (joint papers) TU Wien (now: Alcatel)