Description

This project aims at developing real-time techniques for the description and analysis of the dynamics of strong fields and their quantum fluctuations in ultracold gases, quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics. Using ab initio real-time formulations of quantum field theory, we investigate far-from-equilibrium behaviour in the presence of condensates and strong fields as well as their approach to thermal equilibrium. We derive effective field theories, which allow the description of the entire equilibration process starting from strong-field initial conditions. For the data analysis of strong field systems, we explore the purely topological concepts of persistent homology.