Development of Modern Methods of QFT and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

To date, QFT and in particular QED and the Standard Model remain the most consistent theories confirmed by numerous experiments describing a wide range of quantum effects under various microscopic and macroscopic conditions. Despite the fact that the traditional method of QFT and its numerous applications have already been widely reflected in the scientific literature, a number of important new physical situations have recently appeared, of which QFT seems to be an adequate description. These challenges, in turn, require a new adequate development of methods of QFT and, with their help, analysis of the corresponding physical problems. A new Special Issue in Universe is intended to include articles reflecting progress in that direction—in particular, articles devoted to nonperturbative methods of treating quantum effects in strong electromagnetic and gravitational fields and their applications to calculating effects of particle creation from the vacuum by such fields, to spontaneous production of electron–positron pairs by the supercritical Coulomb field and so on. We shall also welcome contributions on applications of QFT to advanced Dirac materials (graphene, topological insulators, Weyl semimetals, etc.). There is also a particular interest in the study of quantum effects in the evolution of particles and fields in a curved space–time. This interest is inspired by the recent direct detection of gravitational waves and the observation of the black hole shadow, which is the unique test of the general relativity in the strong field limit. The studies on the generation of Λ(t) qu various quantum phenomena in the early universe can be also represented. Finally, we are also looking for contributions on quantum effects in noninertial frames.

Prof. Dr. Dmitry Gitman
Guest Editor

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