Publications of Elmar Bittner

  1. E. Bittner
    Lattice Models of Two-dimensional Quantum Gravity
    Diploma Thesis, Vienna University of Technology 1998

  2. E. Bittner, A. Hauke, C. Holm, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Lattice Models of 2D Quantum Gravity
    Proceedings of the 8th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity,
    (World Scientific 1999) 735

  3. E. Bittner, A. Hauke, C. Holm, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Lattice Models of Quantum Gravity
    Frontiers in Quantum Physics, (Springer 1998) 303

  4. E. Bittner, A. Hauke, C. Holm, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Standard and Z2-Regge theory in two dimensions
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 63A-C (1998) 769

  5. E. Bittner, A. Hauke, C. Holm, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Z2-Regge versus Standard Regge Calculus in Two Dimensions
    Phys. Rev. D 59 (1999) 124018

  6. E. Bittner, A. Hauke, C. Holm, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Phase Structure and Graviton Propagators in Lattice Formulations
    of Four-Dimensional Quantum Gravity
    Class. Quant. Grav. 16 (1999) 1163

  7. E. Bittner, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    2d quantum gravity with discrete edge lengths
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 73 (1999) 789

  8. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Quantum Gravity with Matter Fields in Two Dimensions
    Lecture Notes in Physics 543, (Springer 2000) 383

  9. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Two-dimensional quantum gravity with matter fields
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 83-84 (2000) 739

  10. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum, J. Riedler
    Ising spins on discrete Regge lattices
    Physica A277 (2000) 204

  11. B. A. Berg, E. Bittner, M.-P. Lombardo, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch, T. Wettig
    Universality and Chaos in Quantum Field Theories
    "Confinement 2000", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Quantum
    Chromodynamics and Color Confinement, (World Scientific 2000) 234

  12. E. Bittner, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch
    Quantum chaos and chiral symmetry at the QCD and QED phase transition
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 96 (2001) 189

  13. E. Bittner, M.-P. Lombardo, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch
    Eigenvalues of the QCD Dirac Operator at Finite Temperature and Density
    "CONFINEMENT IV", Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
    "QUARK CONFINEMENT AND THE HADRON SPECTRUM",
    (World Scientific 2002) 353

  14. E. Bittner, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch
    Quantum Chaos in Physical Systems: from Super Conductors to Quarks
    Proceedings to the Bexbach Colloquium on Science - BCS 2000, Bexbach, Germany,
    October 27 - October 29 2001, Y. Aizawa, G. Casati, M. Robnik, and A. Ruffing (Eds.),
    (Shaker Verlag 2002) 1

  15. E. Bittner
    Quantum Gravity with Spin Fields
    Doctoral Thesis, Vienna University of Technology 2001

  16. E. Bittner, M.-P. Lombardo, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch
    Lowest eigenvalues of the Dirac operator for two color QCD at nonzero chemical
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 106 (2002) 468

  17. E. Bittner, M.-P. Lombardo, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch
    Lowest eigenvalues of the Dirac operator for two color QCD at finite density
    contribution to "Statistical QCD" (Bielefeld 2001)
    Special Issue Nucl. Phys. A 702 (2002) P12

  18. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum
    Spins coupled to a Z2-Regge lattice in 4d
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 106 (2002) 991

  19. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum
    Ising spins coupled to a four-dimensional discrete Regge skeleton
    Phys. Rev. D 66 (2002) 024008

  20. E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Phase Transition in Complex |ψ|4 Theory
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 89 (2002) 130201

  21. E. Bittner, W. Janke, D. Saakian
    Approximate calculation of the ground-state energy for Potts spin-glass models using DGREM
    Phys. Rev. E 67 (2003) 016105

  22. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum
    On the Continuum Limit of the Ising Model Coupled to Regge Gravity
    Proceedings of the 5-th International Conference Renormalization Group 2002
    Acta Physica Slovaca 52 (2002) 421

  23. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum
    On the Continuum Limit of the Discrete Regge Model in 4d
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 119 (2003) 924

  24. E. Bittner, W. Janke, H. Markum
    Discretization and Continuum Limit of Quantum Gravity on a Four-dimensional Space-Time Lattice
    Proceedings to the Bexbach Colloquium on Science - BCS 2002, Bexbach, Germany,
    October 26 - October 30 2002

  25. E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Generalized Complex |ψ|4 Model
    Acta Physica Polonica B 34 (2003) 4727

  26. E. Bittner, S. Hands, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch
    Quantum Chaos in supersymmetric QCD at finite density
    Proceedings to the Workshop on Finite Density QCD, Nara, Japan,
    July 10 - July 12 2003
    Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl. 153 (2004) 295

  27. E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Nature of Phase Transitions in a Generalized Complex |ψ|4 Model
    Phys. Rev. B 71 (2005) 024512

  28. G. Akemann, E. Bittner, M.-P. Lombardo, H. Markum, R. Pullirsch
    Density profiles of the lowest eigenvalues of the Dirac operator for two color QCD at non-zero chemical potential compared to matrix models
    Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 140 (2005) 568

  29. S. Wenzel, E. Bittner, W. Janke, A.M.J. Schakel, A. Schiller
    Kertesz Line in the Three-Dimensional Compact U(1) Lattice Higgs Model
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 051601

  30. E. Bittner, A. Krinner, W. Janke
    Vortex Line Perculation in the three-dimensional Complex |ψ|4 Model
    Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 094511

  31. G. Akemann, E. Bittner
    Two-colour Lattice QCD with dynamical fermions at non-zero density versus Matrix Models
    PoS(LAT2005)197

  32. E. Bittner, A. Krinner, W. Janke
    Vortex-Line Percolation in the Three-Dimensional Complex Ginzburg-Landau Model
    PoS(LAT2005)247

  33. A. Nußbaumer, E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Evaporation/Condensation of Ising Droplets
    PoS(LAT2005)252

  34. S. Wenzel, E. Bittner, W. Janke, A.M.J. Schakel, A. Schiller
    Kertesz Line in the 3D Compact U(1) Lattice Higgs Model
    PoS(LAT2005)248

  35. E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Phase transitions in a generalized |ψ|4 model
    in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference Path Integrals from Quantum Information to Cosmology, Prague, Czech Republic,
    6--10 June 2005, edited by C. Burdik, O. Navratil, and S. Posta (JINR Press, Dubna, 2006), electronically available

  36. E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Free-Energy Barriers in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model
    Europhys. Lett. 74 (2006) 195

  37. G. Akemann, E. Bittner
    Unquenched complex Dirac spectra at nonzero chemical potential: two-colour QCD lattice data versus matrix model
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 222002

  38. A. Nußbaumer, E. Bittner, T. Neuhaus, W. Janke
    Monte Carlo study of the evaporation/condensation transition of Ising droplets
    Europhys. Lett. 75 (2006) 716

  39. A. Nußbaumer, E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Interface tension of the square lattice Ising model with next-nearest-neighbour interactions
    EPL 78 (2007) 16004

  40. E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke, M. Weigel
    Self-affirmation model for football goal distributions
    EPL 78 (2007) 58002

  41. S. Wenzel, E. Bittner, W. Janke, A.M.J. Schakel
    Percolation of Vortices in the 3D Abelian Lattice Higgs Model
    Nucl. Phys. B 793 (2008) 344

  42. A. Nußbaumer, E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Monte Carlo study of the evaporation/condensation transition on different Ising lattices
    Phys. Rev. E 77 (2008) 041109

  43. E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke
    Free-energy barriers of spin glasses
    in: NIC Symposium 2008, Proceedings, edited by G. Münster, D. Wolf, and M. Kremer,
    John von Neumann Institute for Computing, Jülich, NIC Series, Vol. 39, pp. 229 - 236 (2008)

  44. A. Nußbaumer, E. Bittner, T. Neuhaus, W. Janke
    Universality of the Evaporation/Condensation Transition
    to appear in: Computer Simulations in Condensed Matter Physics XX,
    eds. D.P. Landau, S.P. Lewis, and H.-B. Schüttler
    (Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Berlin, 2008) (in print)

  45. A. Nußbaumer, E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Evaporation/Condensation of Ising Droplets
    Proceedings of the International Conference Path Integrals -- New Trends and Perspectives,
    edited by W. Janke and A. Pelster (World Scientific, Singapore, 2008).

  46. E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Vortex-line percolation in a three-dimensional complex |ψ|4 theory
    Proceedings of the International Conference Path Integrals -- New Trends and Perspectives,
    edited by W. Janke and A. Pelster (World Scientific, Singapore, 2008)

  47. E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke
    Make life simple: using the full power of the parallel tempering algorithm
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 130603

  48. E. Bittner, W. Janke
    Boundary field induced first-order transition in the 2D Ising model: numerical study
    J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 395001

  49. E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke, M. Weigel
    Football fever: goal distributions and non-Gaussian statistics
    Eur. Phys. J. B67 (2009) 459
    [arXiv:physics/0606016 (physics.soc-ph), discussed by Michael Hopkin in Nature News Feature article Goal Beget Goals, Nature 441, 793 (2006) online]

  50. E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke, M. Weigel,
    Fußballfieber beim Wissenschaftssommer: Eine mathematisch-empirische Nachlese
    Universität Leipzig Journal 6/2008 (2008) 22.

  51. E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke
    Anisotropy of the interface tension of the three-dimensional Ising model
    Nucl. Phys. B 820 (2009) 694.

  52. W. Janke, E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, and M. Weigel,
    Football Fever: Self-Affirmation Model for Goal Distributions
    to appear in Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Statistical Physics: Modern Trends and Applications StatPhys09, Lviv, Ukraine, 23-25 June 2009
    Leipzig/Saarbrücken/Mainz preprint (July 2009)

  53. G. Akemann, E. Bittner, M.J. Philips, L. Shifrin
    A Wigner Surmise for Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Chiral Random Matrices
    Phys. Rev. E 80 (2009) 065201(R)

  54. E. Bittner, A. Nußbaumer, W. Janke
    Tune the autocorrelation time and unleash the full power of the parallel tempering algorithm
    PoS(LAT2009)027

  55. W. Janke, E. Bittner
    Replica-Exchange Cluster Algorithm
    PoS(LAT2009)042