Quantum macrophysics

Modern theoretical physics is a synthetic science. Despite of branching, specialization and complication of its sections there are deep ideas which ensure unity of physics. The great uniting force is quantum field theory. Its principles and methods were gradually spread out of the framework of physics of fundamental interactions. First of all the methods and ideas of quantum field theory were accepted in statistical physics. That has changed in essential way such disciplines as physics of solid and liquid states of matter. A backward influence was also observed and the ideas of condense matter and statistical physics have penetrated into quantum field theory (remind the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking). Moreover, classical problems of field theory on particle collisions almost completely moved to the past. Nowadays physicists who are working in studying of fundamental interactions are devoting much time to phenomena taking place at extreme external conditions - high temperature, dense medium, strong external fields. They correspond to processes that had happened in the early universe or to the ones taking place in the stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, etc. The idea of more deep investigations of the universe additionally to the construction of huge more and more expensive accelerators excites many people. Already theorists stated that there are nothing in physics except quantum field theory and statistics. Now one should ascertain that both these branches almost merged. Now, say, the idea of the phase transitions is one of the basic in field theory. And on the contrary, the renormalization group method developed first in quantum field theory is the tool for studying of critical phenomena in condense matter. After creation of quantum chromodynamics and electroweak theory a unique possibility has opened. It became possible to investigate various processes - microscopic or macroscopic - beginning from the fist principles of quantum theory. Hence, high energy physics has converted from the science "about the laws of nature" into science "about phenomena of nature".

Foundation in 1992 the quantum macrophysics chair at Dnipropetrovsk national university was inspired by these trends in theoretical physics. At the same time, even the name of the chair states the reality of manifestations of the conformity to quantum laws at macroscopic level, the close relation of modern science and training of specialists with high university education. The number of known quantum macroscopic phenomena is decreasing day by day. All of them happen at some external conditions that, among others, serves as a motivation for scientific researches carried out at the chair - investigation of fundamental interactions at extreme external conditions. These investigations are related with searching for signals of new heavy particle beyond the energy scale of he standard model in scattering processes; spontaneous creation of chromomagnetic field at high temperature; investigation a magnetize quark-gluon plasma; studying of critical phenomena by the methods of thermodynamics and physical kinetic; influence of non-equilibrium fluctuations upon non-equilibrium processes.