Publications

Selected recent articles

  • Aleksi Kurkela and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Cool quark matter", Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 042501 (2016), 1603.00750 [hep-ph].
  • Carlos Hoyos, Niko Jokela, David Rodriquez Fernandez and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Holographic quark matter and neutron stars", Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 032501 (2016), 1603.02943 [hep-ph].
  • Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Gravitational-wave constraints on the neutron-star-matter Equation of State", Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 172703 (2018), 1711.02644 [astro-ph.HE].
  • Jens Andersen, Tyler Gorda, Andreas Helset, Lauri Niemi, Tuomas Tenkanen, Anders Tranberg, Aleksi Vuorinen and David Weir, "Nonperturbative analysis of the Electroweak phase transition in the Two Higgs Doublet Model", Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 191802 (2018), 1711.09849 [hep-ph].
  • Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Paul Romatschke, Saga Säppi and Aleksi Vuorinen, "NNNLO pressure of cold quark matter: leading logarithm", Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 202701 (2018), 1807.04120 [hep-ph].
  • Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Joonas Nättilä and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Evidence for quark-matter cores in massive neutron stars", Nature Physics 16 (2020).
  • Carlos Hoyos, Niko Jokela, Matti Järvinen, Javier Subils, Javier Tarrio and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Transport in strongly coupled quark matter", Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 241601 (2020), 2005.14205 [hep-th].
  • Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Risto Paatelainen, Saga Säppi and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Soft interactions in cold quark matter", Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162003 (2021), 2103.05658 [hep-ph].
  • Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Evangelia Katerini, Aleksi Kurkela, Joonas Nättilä, Vasileios Paschalidis and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Multimessenger Constraints for Ultradense Matter", Phys. Rev. X 12, 011058 (2022), 2105.05132 [astro-ph.HE].
  • Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Joonas Hirvonen, Oleg Komoltsev, Aleksi Kurkela, Joonas Nättilä and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Strongly interacting matter exhibits deconfined behavior in massive neutron stars", Nature Communications 14 (2023).
  • Review articles and textbooks

  • Nora Brambilla et al., "QCD and Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories: Challenges and Perspectives", Eur. Phys. J. C 74 (2014) 10, 2981, 1404.3723 [hep-ph].
  • Mikko Laine and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Basics of Thermal Field Theory - A Tutorial on Perturbative Computations", Springer Lect. Notes Phys. 925 (2016), e-book and softcover, 1701.01554 [hep-ph].
  • Jacopo Ghiglieri, Aleksi Kurkela, Michael Strickland and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Perturbative Thermal QCD: Formalism and Applications", Phys. Rept. 880 (2020) 1-73, 2002.10188 [hep-ph].
  • Carlos Hoyos, Niko Jokela and Aleksi Vuorinen, "Holographic approach to compact stars and their binary mergers", Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 126 (2022), 2112.08422 [hep-th].


  • A more complete list of my publications is available from INSPIRE and Google Scholar.