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Univ.-Prof. DI Dr. Anton Rebhan
rebhana at tph.tuwien dot ac dot at
+43-1-58801x13620
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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:)
SS 2011
Einführung in die Quantenfeldtheorie II
- Termin
- dienstags 8:15-9:45 FH HS 4
- Beginn
- Di, 8.3.2011
- Schriftlicher Test (QFT I)
- Di 15.3.2011 9:00-10:00 FH HS 4
Empfohlene Literatur:
- Mark Srednicki: Quantum Field Theory (free prepublication draft)
- Peskin/Schröder: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
- Tony Zee: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Vorlesung folgt weitgehend Buch von Srednicki, aber mit Konventionen aus VO Introduction to QED (weitgehend gleich mit Peskin/Schröder)!
- Stoff WS
- Srednicki Kapitel 1-14,25,15-21; Cvitanovic Kapitel 2
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 2
(gemeinsam mit D. Grumiller)
- Termin
- Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
- Beginn
- Do, 17.3.2011 (Do, 10.3.2011, 15:00 Habil-Kolloquium A. Schmitt!)
- Topic 2010/11
- Gauge/gravity dualities
Projektarbeiten
- 135.027 PrA Teilchenphysik
- Spezielle Probleme der theoretischen Teilchenphysik
- PrA Quark-Gluon-Plasmaphysik
- gemeinsam mit Dr. Andreas Schmitt
- PrA Black hole physics
- gemeinsam mit Dr. Daniel Grumiller
WS 2010/11
Einführung in die Quantenfeldtheorie I
- Termin
- Di 8:15-9:45 FH HS 4
- Beginn
- Di 5.10.2010
- Schriftlicher Test
- Di 15.3.2011 9:00-10:00 FH HS 4
Empfohlene Literatur:
- Mark Srednicki: Quantum Field Theory (free prepublication draft)
- Peskin/Schröder: Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
- Tony Zee: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell
Vorlesung folgt weitgehend Buch von Srednicki, aber mit Konventionen aus VO Introduction to QED (weitgehend gleich mit Peskin/Schröder)!
- Stoff WS
- Srednicki Kapitel 1-14,25,15-21; Cvitanovic Kapitel 2
Hausaufgabenanrechnung (pdf file): Code Grün = Schriftlicher Test genügt für Benotung; sonst zusätzlich mündliche Prüfung
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 1
(gemeinsam mit D. Grumiller)
- Termin
- Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
- Beginn
- Do, 21.10.2010
- Topic 2010/11
- Gauge/gravity dualities
SS 2010
Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics
- Termin
- Mo 10:00-11:30 SEM 136, FH 10. OG (Besprechung der Hausübungen im Anschluss an die Vorlesung)
- QED Lecture notes
- (postscript file, 890KB) (pdf file, 581KB) (Englisch, 81 pp.)
- Erhältlich in Spiralbindung im Sekretariat des Institutes um 5 €
- Prüfungen
- mündlich, Termine jederzeit nach Vereinbarung (z.B. per E-mail an rebhana at tph.tuwien dot ac dot at)
- Hausaufgaben
- bei Abgabe von 2/3 der (freiwilligen) wöchentlichen Hausaufgaben wird eine Grundnote für die LVA ermittelt, die auf Wunsch durch eine mündliche Prüfung aufgebessert werden kann;
- Abgabe der Hausaufgaben und unmittelbarer feedback im Anschluss an die Vorlesung der Folgewoche
- Bei Grundnote 1 wird das Zeugnis automatisch ausgestellt, bei allen anderen erst nach evt. mündlicher Prüfung bzw. erklärtem Verzicht darauf (z.B. per e-mail an rebhana @ tph.tuwien.ac.at)
- Hausaufgabenbewertung (pdf file)
VU Elektrodynamik I
siehe EDI
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 2
- Termin
- Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
- Beginn
- Do, 11.3.2010
WS 2009/10
Elektrodynamik II
VO (136.018)
Diese Lehrveranstaltung hat nun eine eigene Homepage: http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/EDII
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 1
TUWIS Eintrag
- Termin
- Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
- Achtung: die AG vom Do, den 21.1. entfällt wegen der gleichzeitigen Habilitandenseminare von Dr. Grumiller (14:00 Black holes) und Dr. Schmitt (14:45 Color superconductivity in dense quark matter) im Seminarraum 5. Stock, gelb!
- Topic 2008/09
- Eichfeldtheorien / Gauge field theories
- Das Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik basiert auf Eichfeldtheorien, mit denen die elektromagnetischen Wechselwirkungen sowie die schwachen und starken Kernkräfte beschrieben werden. Die theoretischen Grundlagen dazu sowie ausgewählte Aspekte, die über die einführenden Vorlesungen hinausgehen, sollen in dieser Arbeitsgemeinschaft von den teilnehmenden Studenten gemeinsam erarbeitet und vorgetragen werden.
- Literatur
- S. Pokorski: Gauge field theories
Previous semesters
Below you can find information on and material for lectures of past semesters. Some material
pertaining to much older lectures can still be found at my (now obsoleted)
old official home page.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 2 (SS 2009)
TUWIS Eintrag
- Termin
- Donnerstag, 14:00-15:30 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
- Topic
- Fortsetzung von AGFW 1 (s.u.)
Presentations (dates are lower bounds and will be updated when we get delayed)
Topic |
Speaker |
Date
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Witten prescription and 3-point function calculation |
Nils-Ole Walliser |
19.03.09
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Holographic renormalization |
Daniel Grumiller |
26.03.09
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3d gravity |
Daniel Grumiller |
02.04.09
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Flavor in AdS/CFT |
Stefan Stricker |
30.04.09
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Holographic superfluiditiy |
Andreas Schmitt |
28.05.09
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Colliding shock waves in AdS5 |
Max Attems |
04.06.09
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Finite temperature in AdS/CFT |
Dionysis Triantafyllopoulos |
25.06.09
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Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 1 (WS 2008/09)
TUWIS Eintrag
- Termin
- Donnerstag, 14:00-15:30 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
- Topic 2008/09
- Gauge/gravity duality
- Through the Anti-deSitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence of Maldacena and in other conjectured gauge/gravity dualities, the thermodynamics of gauge theories at strong coupling is mapped to the thermodynamics of BHs in 5-dimensional AdS space. The deconfinement transition in quantum chromodynamics is related to the Hawking-Page phase transition on the gravitational side. Matter degrees of freedom are described by additional D-branes embedded in this background geometry, and several quantities of phenomenological interest have been worked out already: shear viscosity, thermalization times, meson spectra, energy loss and jet quenching parameters.
Literature (with links to PS or PDF files from arxiv.org)
- H. Nastase: Introduction to AdS/CFT, arXiv:0712.0689
- O. Aharony, S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz: Large N field theories, string theory and gravity, hep-th/9905111
- J. Maldacena: TASI 2003 lectures on AdS/CFT, hep-th/0309246
Presentations (dates are lower bounds and will be updated when we get delayed)
Topic |
Speaker |
Date
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Elements of QFT and gauge theory |
Dominik Steineder |
23.10.08
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Basics of supersymmetry |
David Burke |
30.10.08
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String theory actions and spectra |
Christoph Mayrhofer |
6.11.08
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CFT and D-branes |
Alexander Noll |
20.11.08
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Basics of GR; AdS |
Stefan Stricker |
4.12.08
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Basics of supergravity |
Dionysis Triantafyllopoulos |
11.12.08
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Black holes and p-branes |
Andreas Schmitt |
18.12.08
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AdS-CFT correspondence |
Maria Schimpf |
15.1.09
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Antrittsvorlesung
Öffentliche Antrittsvorlesung "Quark-Gluon-Plasmaphysik": Mo., 2. Juni 2008, 17:00 Freihaus HS 5 (2. Stock, grüner Bereich)
Elektrodynamik I (SS 2008)
VU (136.015) gemeinsam mit Doz. Herbert Balasin und Tutoren
Diese Lehrveranstaltung hat nun eine eigene Homepage: http://www.itp.tuwien.ac.at/EDI
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für fundamentale Wechselwirkungen 2 (SS 2008)
- Termin
- Donnerstag, 14:15-15:45 Uhr, SEM 136, FH 10.OG
Terminänderung: Der Termin für die AG am Do., den 17.4. ist auf 9:45-11:15 im Seminarraum 138C (9. Stock!) vorverlegt!
- Thema
- Phasenstruktur der Quantenchromodynamik (Buch von J.B.Kogut & M.A.Stephanov: The Phases of Quantum Chromodynamics)
Elektrodynamik und Relativitätstheorie VO (SS 2007)
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.
- zur Auffrischung und Vertiefung der Methodenkenntnisse: K. Jähnich: Analysis für Physiker und Ingenieure (Springer)
Prüfungen
- Modus und Termine: unter Exams#Prof._A._Rebhan
Thermische Quantenfeldtheorie (SS 2007)
Geänderter Vorlesungstermin: Mittwoch SEM 136 (10.OG) 16:00-17:30
Ausnahme: Die Vorlesung vom Mi., den 20.6. wird auf Di., den 19.6. vorverlegt.
(Bits of) Lecture Notes (postscript files):
- Orders of magnitude in ultrarelativistic plasma physics (28K)
- Basic formulae of statistical quantum mechanics (28 K)
- Elementary modelling of the QCD phase transition (1.7M)
- Many-particle propagators (96K)
- Many-particle propagators for a scalar field theory (34K)
- Perturbation theory at zero vs. nonzero temperature (36K)
- Imaginary-time (Matsubara) formalism (34K)
- Real-time (Keldysh) formalism (38K)
- Decay and creation rates (21K)
- Gauge theories at finite T (50K)
- Linear response in gauge theories at finite T (53K)
- Fermionic quasi-particles (42K)
- Hard-thermal-loop resummation (26K)
- Symmetry restoration in spontaneously broken theories (29K)
(More advanced) Lecture Notes from courses I gave at International Summer Schools:
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.
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)
- 1995-11-01 - 2008-02-29 Associate Professor, ITP, TU Wien (Außerordentlicher Universitätsprofessor)
- since 2008-03-01 Full Professor, ITP, TU Wien
Research Interests and Projects
My research interests comprise theoretical particle physics and its ramifications, in particular quantum field theory, gauge theories,
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, e.g. ultrarelativistic temperatures and densities that existed in the early universe in the first second after the Big Bang. Of particular interest is the high-temperature regime of quantum chromodynamics which is supposed to describe the quark-gluon plasma that filled the universe during the first 10 μsec's. This form of matter is now believed to be produced fleetingly in "Little Bangs" in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collider experiments such as RHIC and also expected to exist in the interior of (some) neutron stars.
- Nonabelian plasma instabilities
- An open problem in quark-gluon plasma physics is to understand the very fast apparent thermalization observed at RHIC and also the extremely low viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma. For both phenomena it has been suggested that nonabelian plasma instabilities may play a crucial role. Together with my former student Paul Romatschke (now at the University of Washington, Seattle) and former post-doc Mike Strickland (now at FIAS, Frankfurt) we were the first group to carry out numerical simulations of nonabelian plasma instabilities in Yang-Mills theories, which are now being studied by several groups in the US and Europe. Recently we have published the first numerical study of nonabelian plasma instabilities in an anisotropically expanding system.
- Quantum theory of (supersymmetric) solitons
- In recent years, 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. Other objects of interest are supersymmetric "confined monopoles" which permit analytical studies with relevance to the outstanding confinement problem of nonabelian gauge theories.
Publications
Since 1984 (the start of my doctoral studies), I have written or co-authored over 100 scientific publications, most of which are available on-line (freely accessible as arXiv.org e-prints) through:
LINKS
Public outreach
TU News involving members of my group:
For more information and news on nuclear and particle physics written for the public visit:
teilchen.at
This contains the public outreach web pages of the Fachausschuss für Kern- und Teilchenphysik (FAKT) of the ÖPG (Austrian Physical Society), which I was involved in creating and where I am a regular author.
It also hosts now the coordinated efforts of Austrian scientists to appeal for a reversal of the recent decision by the ministry of science to cancel Austria's membership of CERN
My collaborators
List of collaborators with joint scientific publications and links to their
present home institutions/home pages (where available)
- Maximilian Attems (joint papers) TU Wien
- Carl M. Bender (joint papers) Washington Univ., St. Louis (US)
- Jean-Paul Blaizot (joint papers) Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (F)
- Dietrich Bödeker (joint papers) Univ. Bielefeld (D)
- Margaret E. Carrington (joint papers) Brandon University, Manitoba (Canada)
- Rosanne Di Stefano (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
- Ian Drummond (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Fritjof Flechsig (joint papers) Univ. Hannover (D)
- Kazuo Fujikawa (joint papers) Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
- Peter Gaigg (joint papers) TU Wien (now: Siemens Austria)
- Andreas Gerhold (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. of North Carolina, Raleigh (US)
- Alfred S. Goldhaber (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
- Antti Gynther (joint papers) Univ. Helsinki (Finland) (HP) → Brandon University, Canada → TU Wien
- Ron Horgan (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Edmond Iancu (joint papers) Service de Physique Théorique, CEA Saclay (F)
- Andreas Ipp (joint papers) TU Wien (HP) → ECT*, Trento (I) → MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (D)
- Keijo Kajantie (joint papers) University of Helsinki (Finland)
- Robert Knienider (joing papers) TU Wien
- Randy Kobes (joint papers) University of Winnipeg (Canada)
- Ulrike Kraemmer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
- Thomas Kreuzberger (joint papers) TU Wien
- Maximilian Kreuzer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
- Wolfgang Kummer (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
- Gabor Kunstatter (joint papers) University of Winnipeg (Canada)
- Peter Landshoff (joint papers) DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)
- Karl Landsteiner (joint papers) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (HP)
- Martin Leblanc (joint papers) University of Waterloo (Canada)
- Dietrich Liko (joint papers) TU Wien → HEPHY, Wien
- Christoph Mayrhofer (joint papers) TU Wien
- Gerry McKeon (joint papers) University of Western Ontario (Canada)
- Guy D. Moore (joint papers) McGill University, Montreal (Canada)
- Stanisław Mrówczyński (joint papers) Sołtan Inst., Warsaw (PL)
- Herbert Nachbagauer (joint papers) TU Wien → LAPP, Annecy-le-Vieux (F) → Univ. Heidelberg (D)
- Otto Nachtmann (joint papers) Univ. Heidelberg (D)
- Horatiu Nastase (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → Brown Univ. (US) → Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Francisco Peña-Benitez (joint papers) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
- Olivier Piguet (joint papers) Univ. Geneva (CH) → Espirito Santo Univ., Vitoria (Brazil)
- Florian Preis (joint papers) TU Wien
- Urko Reinosa (joint papers) Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (F) → TU Wien → Univ. Heidelberg (D)
- Paul Romatschke (joint papers) TU Wien (HP) → Univ. Bielefeld → INT, Washington Univ., Seattle (US)
- Andreas Schmitt (joint papers) Univ. Frankfurt → MIT → Washington U. St.Louis → TU Wien
- Robert Schöfbeck (joint papers) TU Wien → HEPHY, Wien
- Hermann Schulz (joint papers) Univ. Hannover (D)
- Dominik J. Schwarz (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. Bielefeld (D)
- Manfred Schweda (joint papers) Staff, TU Wien
- Tom Sherry (joint papers) University Coll., Galway (Ireland)
- Dominik Steineder (joint papers) TU Wien
- Misha Stephanov (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → Univ. of Chicago (US)
- Stefan Stricker (joint papers) TU Wien
- Mike Strickland (joint papers) Duke Univ. (US) → TU Wien → U. Helsinki → FIAS Frankfurt (D) → Gettysburg College
- Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (joint papers) YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US)
- Dmitri V. Vassilevich (joint papers) Univ. Leipzig (D) → Univ. Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Aleksi Vuorinen (joint papers) Univ. Helsinki (Finland) (HP) → Washington University, Seattle (US) → TU Wien → CERN → Univ. Bielefeld (D)
- Robert Wimmer (joint papers) TU Wien → Univ. Hannover → YITP, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook (US) → ENS Lyon
- Gunter Wirthumer (joint papers) TU Wien (now: Alcatel)
(Co-)organized Workshops and Conferences
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 (organizing committee)
- Strong and Electroweak matter 2008: Amsterdam, 26-29 August 2008 (advisory board)
- Strong and Electroweak matter 2010: McGill University, Montreal (advisory board)
- Anti-de Sitter holography and the quark-gluon plasma: analytical and numerical aspects: Erwin-Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, August 2 - October 29, 2010 (organizer, with K. Landsteiner & S. Husa)
- EMMI-Workshop Hot Matter: Vienna, August 24 - 28, 2010 (organizer, with R. Baier, O. Kaczmarek & P. Romatschke)