Another area of current investigation is thermal field theory which may be relevant in high energy heavy ion collisions which will soon be investigated experimentally. Those working in these areas include P.V. Landshoff, H. Osborn, S. Dalley and various students. Quantum gravity, Solitons and other extended solutions, Supersymmetric quantum field theory, Quantum groups and quantum geometry, GR Group. During the last two decades this area has been the subject of intense and fruitful research. They have yielded not only deep insights into the structure of quantum field theories but also potential applications to string theory and condensed matter physics, as well as being of great intrinsic mathematical interest.
All aspects are under active investigations.
This is the phase of matter in which the Universe was created, and there are plans soon to re-create it in laboratory experiments. Statistical field theory is used to study the properties of the plasma. Members of the group study the basic properties of statistical field theory and apply them in large-scale computations. The available facilities include a massively-parallel Hitachi supercomputer. In addition we are interested in flow and diffusion in random media as well as other areas for which ideas of field theory and statistical physics are relevant.