Hep-Lat, short for High Energy Physics – Lattice, explores the fundamental forces of nature by simulating particle interactions on a digital grid. Instead of relying solely on abstract equations, researchers in this field use powerful computers to model how quarks and gluons bind together, offering deep insights into the structure of matter that are often impossible to derive analytically.

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Flavor decomposition of electromagnetic multipole moments in [q1q2][qˉ3cˉ][q_1q_2][\bar q_3 \bar c] tetraquarks: Light-quark analogs of Tcs1(2900)0T_{cs1}(2900)^0 with JP=1+J^P = 1^+

This paper employs light-cone QCD sum rules to demonstrate that in JP=1+J^P=1^+ [q1q2][qˉ3cˉ][q_1q_2][\bar q_3 \bar c] tetraquarks with a pseudoscalar antidiquark, the charm quark algebraically decouples from electromagnetic moments, leaving a distinct light-flavor pattern and non-zero quadrupole moments that serve as structural signatures to discriminate between compact and molecular internal architectures.

Ulaş Özdem2026-10-21
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Gauge-Covariant Wavelets for Quark-Propagator Sparsening and Distillation in Lattice QCD

This paper introduces a novel gauge-covariant wavelet framework that utilizes spatial localization and resolution-scale separation to efficiently sparsen quark propagators and construct distillation subspaces without eigenpair calculations, thereby significantly reducing the computational cost of hadronic correlation functions while maintaining accuracy comparable to conventional methods.

Debsubhra Chakraborty, Nilmani Mathur, Mrinmoy Basak2026-10-19
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Impact of Irrep Truncations on Quantum Simulations of QCD

This paper employs Euclidean Monte Carlo simulations and weak-coupling perturbation theory to quantify the relative probabilities of different irreducible representation states and site singlets in SU(3) lattice gauge theory, thereby providing critical data to determine the necessary truncation schemes for accurate quantum simulations of non-abelian gauge dynamics near the continuum limit.

Patrick Draper, Drishti Gupta2026-10-19
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Sampling the XY model with an attention-based neural network

This paper introduces a transformer-based variational autoregressive network enhanced with physics-informed ingredients to efficiently sample the two-dimensional XY model near its phase transition, demonstrating superior performance over existing neural samplers and accurate reproduction of traditional Monte Carlo results on large 96×9696\times96 lattices without mode dropping.

Piotr Białas, Christian D. Morales, Tomasz Stebel, Dawid Zapolski2026-10-19
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Quantum Monte Carlo calculations in the nuclear shell model by the complex Langevin method

This paper demonstrates that the complex Langevin method can successfully overcome the sign problem in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo calculations for small nuclear shell model systems at finite temperature, accurately reproducing exact energy results and offering a promising complementary approach to variational methods for larger systems.

Yuhma Asano, Yuta Ito, Jun Nishimura, Noritaka Shimizu2026-10-16
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Radiative transitions of hybrid mesons

This paper calculates radiative transitions within the lowest charmonium-hybrid multiplet using a constituent gluon model based on Coulomb-gauge QCD, finding that results for Y→ηcγY\to\eta_c\gamma and Y→χc0γY\to \chi_{c0}\gamma agree with quenched lattice computations while the ηc1→J/ψγ\eta_{c1}\to J/\psi\gamma transition is significantly lower than lattice estimates.

Shahriyar Jafarzade, Eric S. Swanson2026-10-16