Department of Theoretical Physics (DFT)
Directions of scientific activity
A. Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics
• Synthesis and decay of super-heavy elements, study of nuclear structure by particle emission processes, clusters and fission, exotic nuclei far from the line of stability;
• Anharmonic and multiphononic states in atomic nuclei, heavy ion nuclear potential;
• Microscopic and phenomenological models of nuclear structure, phase transitions in finite systems, contractions of Lie groups and symmetries corresponding to the critical point of phase transition, double beta decay, statistical aspects of nuclear multifragmentation, special aspects of classical and quantum chaos in nuclear systems;
• Nuclear and subnuclear matter (phase transitions, physics of neutron stars);
• Dynamics of nuclear reactions at low, intermediate and relativistic energies (fusion, nuclear multifragmentation, stellar synthesis, transition to quark-gluon plasma).
B. Elementary Particle Physics and Field Theory
• Symmetries and conservation laws on curved spaces, quantum effects in gravitational interaction and mathematical modeling in astrophysics and cosmology;
• Electroweak and strong interactions within the standard model and effective theories;
• High energy physics;
• Exploring physics beyond the standard model, investigation of generalized field theories (noncommutative theories, strings etc).
C. Atomic Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Photonics
• Condensed matter theory, matter aggregation, phase transitions, statistical physics and physics of complex phenomena: quantum statistics, nanophysics, nanostructures, energy and particle flows, energy, high temperature superconductivity, physical systems on finite lattices;
• Nonlinear phenomena: spatiotemporal optical solitons in dissipative systems, inelastic collisions.
D. Mathematical Physics and Physics of Quantum Information
• Advanced computational methods in nonlinear photonics, Bose-Einstein condensate and in quantum and nuclear processes (numerical methods and high performance software, including by parallel and distributed Grid computing on multicore systems)
• Dissipative phenomena in open systems, role of quantum decoherence in quantum information processing and transmission, quantum entanglement and Gaussian quantum channels;
• Mathematical physics studies related to the standard model of elementary particle interactions (including gravity); new extensions of the causal approach in perturbative quantum field theory, coherent state type group representations: study of the relationship between Jacobi group and squeezed states;
• Study of nonlinear geometric equations of Ricci flow type on manifolds and supermanifolds, multisoliton solutions for supersymmetric integrable systems, algebraic geometry methods for studying integrability of discrete equations; study of nonlinear dynamics for dusty plasma.
CONTACT
Dr. Aurelian ISAR
Phone: 004 021 404 6254
Fax: 004 021 457 5332; Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
