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

• Quantum Hamilton-Jacobi theory, spectral path integrals, and exact WKB analysis , PHYSICAL REVIEW D (2025)
• Refined instanton analysis of the 2D CP^N-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 x S¹ to center-vortices on ℝ² x 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 Z(N) 1-form symmetry , JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (2023)
• Winding ? and destructive interference of instantons , JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (2023)
• Center vortex and confinement in Yang Mills theory and QCD with anomaly-preserving compactifications , PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS (2022)
• Cluster Expansion and Resurgence in the Polyakov Model , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2022)
• Graded Hilbert spaces, quantum distillation and connecting SQCD to QCD , JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS (2022)

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