Berndt Mueller, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Office Location: 250 Physics Bldg, Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708-0305
Office Phone: (919) 660-2570
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 (Fall 2023):
- Physics 142l.001, General physics ii
Synopsis
- Physics 150, TuTh 11:45 AM-01:00 PM
- Physics 142l9d.01d, General physics ii (disc)
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- Physics 147, M 10:05 AM-12:05 PM
- Physics 142l9d.02d, General physics ii (disc)
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- Bio sci 063, M 10:05 AM-12:05 PM
- Physics 142l9d.03d, General physics ii (disc)
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- Physics 227, M 03:30 PM-05:30 PM
- Physics 142l9d.05d, General physics ii (disc)
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- Physics 205, M 07:00 PM-09:00 PM
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- Harris, JW; Müller, B, "QGP Signatures" Revisited (August, Preprint, 2023) .
- Kumar, A; Müller, B; Yang, DL, Spin alignment of vector mesons by glasma fields, Physical Review D, vol. 108 no. 1 (July, 2023) [doi] [abs].
- Müller, B; Yao, X, Simple Hamiltonian for Quantum Simulation of Strongly Coupled 2+1D SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory on a Honeycomb Lattice (June, Preprint, 2023) .
- Kumar, A; Müller, B; Yang, D-L, Spin alignment of vector mesons by glasma fields (April, Preprint, 2023) .
- Kumar, A; Müller, B; Yang, DL, Spin polarization and correlation of quarks from the glasma, Physical Review D, vol. 107 no. 7 (April, 2023) [doi] [abs].
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)