Mithat Ünsal
Area(s) of Expertise
I mostly work on dynamics of gauge theories with applications to QCD, theoretical lattice field theory and mathematical physics. My interests to date included: Gauge theory dynamics, QCD, Resurgence theory and its applications to QFT and quantum mechanics, Picard-Lefschetz/resurgence theory of path integration, Supersymmetry on lattice, Lattice gauge theory, Large-N volume independence, Eguchi-Kawai reduction, Orbifold-orientifold equivalences, Supersymmetric gauge dynamics, Classification of topological excitations (magnetic monopoles, magnetic and neutral bions, semi-classical renormalons) and confinement mechanisms.
Publications
- Center-vortex semiclassics with non-minimal ’t Hooft fluxes on ℝ2 × T2 and center stabilization at large N , Journal of High Energy Physics (2026)
- Emergent photons vs confinement: the roles of vortices and monopoles , (2026)
- Phases of Theories with Z N 1-Form Symmetry, and the Roles of Center Vortices and Magnetic Monopoles , Physical Review Letters (2025)
- Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi theory, spectral path integrals, and exact WKB analysis , Physical review. D/Physical review. D. (2025)
- Refined instanton analysis of the 2D CPN−1 model: mass gap, theta dependence, and mirror symmetry , Journal of High Energy Physics (2025)
- Investigating two-dimensional adjoint QCD on the lattice , Journal of High Energy Physics (2024)
- The metamorphosis of semi-classical mechanisms of confinement: from monopoles on ℝ3 × S1 to center-vortices on ℝ2 × T2 , Journal of High Energy Physics (2024)
- Four-fermion deformations of the massless Schwinger model and confinement , Journal of High Energy Physics (2023)
- Study of gapped phases of 4d gauge theories using temporal gauging of the ℤN 1-form symmetry , Journal of High Energy Physics (2023)
- Winding θ and destructive interference of instantons , Journal of High Energy Physics (2023)