Berndt Mueller, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor  

Berndt Mueller

Office Location: 261-D Physics Bldg, Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0305
Email Address: muller@phy.duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~muller/

Specialties:
Theoretical nuclear physics

Education:
Ph.D., Goethe Universitat Frankfurt Am Main (Germany), 1973
Dr. phil. nat., J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, 1973
Dipl. phys., J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany, 1972
M.S., Goethe Universitat Frankfurt Am Main (Germany), 1972

Research Categories: Theoretical Nuclear and Particle Physics

Research Description: Prof. Mueller's work focuses on nuclear matter at extreme energy density. Quantum chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of nuclear forces, predicts that nuclear matter dissolves into quarks and gluons, the elementary constituents of protons and neutrons, when a critical density or temperature is exceeded. He and his collaborators are theoretically studying the properties of this "quark-gluon plasma", its formation, and its detection in high-energy nuclear collisions. His other research interests include symmetry violating processes in the very early universe and the chaotic dynamics of elementary particle fields. Prof. Mueller is the coauthor of textbooks on the Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, on Symmetry Principles in Quantum Mechanics, on Weak Interactions, and on Neural Networks.

Teaching (Spring 2025):

  • Physics 152l9d.04d, Intro electric, magnet, optics Synopsis
    Physics 154, Tu 01:30 PM-03:30 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Lap, J; Mueller, B; Schaefer, A; Seidl, C, Holography for BCFTs with Multiple Boundaries: Multi-Splitting Quenches (December, Preprint, 2024) .
  2. Fu, Y; Müller, B; Sirimanna, C, Modification of the Jet Energy-Energy Correlator in Cold Nuclear Matter (November, Preprint, 2024) .
  3. Müller, B; Ebner, L; Schäfer, A; Seidl, C; Yao, X, The Nonabelian Plasma is Chaotic (September, Preprint, 2024) .
  4. Achenbach, P; Adhikari, D; Afanasev, A; Afzal, F; Aidala, CA; Al-bataineh, A; Almaalol, DK; Amaryan, M; Androić, D; Armstrong, WR; Arratia, M; Arrington, J; Asaturyan, A; Aschenauer, EC; Atac, H; Avakian, H; Averett, T; Ayerbe Gayoso, C; Bai, X; Barish, KN; Barnea, N; Basar, G; Battaglieri, M; Baty, AA; Bautista, I; Bazilevsky, A; Beattie, C; Behera, SC; Bellini, V; Bellwied, R; Benesch, JF; Benmokhtar, F; Bernardes, CA; Bernauer, JC; Bhatt, H; Bhatta, S; Boer, M; Boettcher, TJ; Bogacz, SA; Bossi, HJ; Brandenburg, JD; Brash, EJ; Briceño, RA; Briscoe, WJ; Brodsky, SJ; Brown, DA; Burkert, VD; Caines, H; Cali, IA; Camsonne, A; Carman, DS; Caylor, J; Cerci, DS; Cerci, S; Chamizo Llatas, M; Chatterjee, S; Chen, JP; Chen, Y; Chen, YC; Chien, YT; Chou, PC; Chu, X; Chudakov, E; Cline, E; Cloët, IC; Cole, PL; Connors, ME; Constantinou, M; Cosyn, W; Covrig Dusa, S; Cruz-Torres, R; D'Alesio, U; da Silva, C; Davoudi, Z; Dean, CT; Dean, DJ; Demarteau, M; Deshpande, A; Detmold, W; Deur, A; Devkota, BR; Dhital, S; Diefenthaler, M; Dobbs, S; Döring, M; Dong, X; Dotel, R; Dow, KA; Downie, EJ; Drachenberg, JL; Dumitru, A; Dunlop, JC; Dupre, R; Durham, JM; Dutta, D; Edwards, RG; Ehlers, RJ; El Fassi, L; Elaasar, M; Elouadrhiri, L, The present and future of QCD, Nuclear Physics A, vol. 1047 (July, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  5. Ebner, L; Schäfer, A; Seidl, C; Müller, B; Yao, X, Entanglement entropy of (2+1)-dimensional SU(2) lattice gauge theory on plaquette chains, Physical Review D, vol. 110 no. 1 (July, 2024) [doi]  [abs].

Curriculum Vitae

Highlight:
Prof. Mueller's work focuses on nuclear matter at extreme energy density. Quantum chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of nuclear forces, predicts that nuclear matter dissolves into quarks and gluons, the elementary constituents of protons and neutrons, when a critical density or temperature is exceeded. He and his collaborators are theoretically studying the properties of this "quark-gluon plasma", its formation, and its detection in high-energy nuclear collisions. His other research interests include symmetry violating processes in the very early universe and the chaotic dynamics of elementary particle fields. Prof. Mueller is the coauthor of textbooks on the Physics of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, on Symmetry Principles in Quantum Mechanics, on Weak Interactions, and on Neural Networks.

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

  • Christopher E. Coleman-Smith  
  • Dilun Yang  
  • Hung-Ming Tsai  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Guangyou Qin (October 1, 2009 - present)  
  • Hannah Petersen (January 1, 2010 - present)  
  • Young-ho Song (September 01, 2008 - March 31, 2010)  
  • Abhijit Majumder (November 1, 2005 - August 31, 2008)  
  • Jörg Ruppert (2004/10-2006/08)  
  • Thorsten Renk (2004/01-2005/08)  
  • Rainer J. Fries (2002/01-2003/08)  
  • Steffen A. Bass (1999/01-2000/08)  
  • Dirk H. Rischke (1996/09-1997/08)  
  • Carsten Greiner (1994/01-1996/12)  
  • Sen-Ben Liao (1992/09-1995/08)  
  • Xin-Nian Wang (1991/09-1992/08)  
  • Klaus Kinder-Geiger (1990/01-1991/08)  
  • Alec J. Schramm (1990/01-1992/08)