Expert in: Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries
MACKENZIE, Richard
Professeur titulaire
- Physics of elementary particles and fields
- Mathematical methods in physics
- Fractional statistics sytems (anyons, etc.)
- Theory of quantized fields
- Quantum mechanics
- Solitons
- Symmetry and conservation laws
- Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries
- Classical and semiclassical techniques in gauge field theories
- Extended classical solutions, cosmic strings, domains walls, textures
- Semiclassical theories and applications of quantum mechanics
- Decoherence, open systems, quantum statistical methods
Theoretical particle physics; quantum field theory and applications in particle physics, cosmology, condensed matter physics, etc. Semiclassical methods, topology in field theory, solitons, instantons. Quantum information.