The perturbative calculation of the lifetime of charged excitations in ultrarelativistic plasmas is plagued with infrared divergences which are not eliminated by the screening corrections. The physical processes responsible for these divergences are the collisions involving the exchange of longwavelength, quasistatic, magnetic gluons (or photons), which are not screened by plasma effects. In QE...

In this paper the several aspects of the ZN symmetry in gauge theories at high temperatures are discussed. The metastable ZN bubbles in the SU(N) gauge theories with fermions may have, generically, unacceptable thermodynamic behavior. Their free energy F ∝ T 4 with a positive proportionality constant. This leads not only to negative pressure but also to negative specific heat and, more seriousl...

Zinc-ion battery (ZIB) has been attracting extensive attention due to its high theoretical capacity, safety, and low cost. However, the exploration of suitable cathode materials host Zn ions remains a challenge, owing strong electrostatic interactions large steric hindrance effects between ion materials. Great efforts have devoted optimization structure electrochemical property In this review a...

I review some of the properties of hot and/or dense relativistic matter. I've been asked to review hot and/or dense matter. As a general rule, most particle physicists aren't that familiar with the behavior of quantum field theory at finite temperature and density. We've all been introduced to how to think about systems of a few relativistic particles with given energies, and how to describe su...