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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Below are the latest papers in High Energy Physics – Lattice, curated directly from arXiv and ready for you to explore.

Quantum simulation of massive Thirring and Gross--Neveu models for arbitrary number of flavors

This paper advances the quantum simulation of massive Thirring and Gross–Neveu models with arbitrary fermion flavors by analyzing their gate complexity, classifying their dynamical Lie algebras, and successfully preparing their ground states using an adaptive-variational quantum imaginary time algorithm.

Bojko N. Bakalov, Joao C. Getelina, Raghav G. Jha, Alexander F. Kemper, Yuan Liu2026-02-27⚛️ hep-lat

The hadronic tensor from four-point functions on the lattice

This paper presents preliminary results from a lattice QCD study using stochastic sources and a clover fermion ensemble to calculate four-point functions, thereby extending the computation of the hadronic tensor to a broader range of momentum transfers essential for understanding neutrino-nucleon scattering structure functions.

Christian Zimmermann, Terrence Draper, Jian Liang, Keh-Fei Liu, Raza Sabbir Sufian, Bigeng Wang2026-02-27⚛️ hep-lat

Confinement transition to gravitational waves in the one-flavor $SU(4)$ Hyper Stealth Dark Matter theory

This paper presents a lattice study of the one-flavor $SU(4)$ Hyper Stealth Dark Matter theory, demonstrating that dynamical dark sea quarks reduce the interface tension of the confinement transition and consequently suppress the resulting gravitational wave amplitude.

V. Ayyar, R. C. Brower, G. T. Fleming, J. Ingoldby, X. Y. Jin, N. Matsumoto, A. S. Meyer, E. T. Neil, J. C. Osborn, S. Park, C. T. Peterson, D. Schaich, P. Vranas, O. Witzel2026-02-27⚛️ hep-lat

Form factors of the ρρ meson from effective field theory and the lattice

This paper applies a novel background field method based on the Feynman-Hellmann theorem to calculate the electromagnetic form factors of the ρ\rho-meson, providing a first effective field theory estimate that highlights substantial contact contributions and outlining a procedure for future ab initio lattice calculations.

Ulf-G. Meißner, Akaki Rusetsky, Ajay S. Sakthivasan, Gerrit Schierholz, Jia-Jun Wu2026-02-27⚛️ hep-lat