Mazeliauskas Group

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Dr. Aleksas Mazeliauskas

Group leader

What we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
—  Werner Heisenberg

Hello, my name is Aleksas Mazeliauskas. I am a theoretical physicist working on many-body phenomena emerging from interactions of a small number of particles in high-energy hadron collisions and ultracold quantum gases.

Since 2022 I am leading an Emmy Noether Reasearch Group at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University. As of 2024, I am a project leader at the Collaborative Research Center ISOQUANT.

My group’s research focuses on the microscopic understanding of the emergent collective phenomena in systems of varying sizes and at varying energy scales. I am especially interested in the question of thermalisation and hydrodynamic behaviour in isolated quantum systems.

Check out my research projects, publications and profiles of my group members. See the news announcements for open positions and my blog for occasional posts about my life as a researcher.

News

Nov 17, 2024 Made the new version of the website public. Note, that it is still under construction. There is a backlog of blog posts to write. :)
Nov 11, 2024 An open postdoc position in my group! Please share with suitable candidates.
Aug 11, 2024 Started redesigning my group website with Jekyll.

Latest posts

Selected publications

  1. No-quenching baseline for energy loss signals in oxygen-oxygen collisions
    Jannis Gebhard, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and Adam Takacs
    2024
  2. Prescaling Relaxation to Nonthermal Attractors
    Michal P. Heller, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and Thimo Preis
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2024
  3. Medium-Enhanced c\barc Radiation
    Maximilian Attems, Jasmine Brewer, Gian Michele Innocenti, and 5 more authors
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2024
  4. Discovering Partonic Rescattering in Light Nucleus Collisions
    Alexander Huss, Aleksi Kurkela, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and 3 more authors
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2021
  5. Rev. Mod. Phys.
    QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections
    Jürgen Berges, Michal P. Heller, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and 1 more author
    Rev. Mod. Phys., 2021
  6. Hydrodynamic attractors, initial state energy and particle production in relativistic nuclear collisions
    Giuliano Giacalone, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and Sören Schlichting
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2019
  7. Chemical Equilibration in Hadronic Collisions
    Aleksi Kurkela, and Aleksas Mazeliauskas
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2019
  8. Prescaling and far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamics in the quark-gluon plasma
    Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and Jürgen Berges
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2019
  9. Matching the Nonequilibrium Initial Stage of Heavy Ion Collisions to Hydrodynamics with QCD Kinetic Theory
    Aleksi Kurkela, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Jean-François Paquet, and 2 more authors
    Phys. Rev. Lett., 2019