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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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This paper presents an extended lattice study of SU(2) gauge theories with one and two adjoint fermion flavors, utilizing multiple methods to demonstrate that both theories reside in the conformal window with chiral symmetry unbroken, yielding continuum-limit anomalous dimensions of approximately 0.170 and 0.291, respectively.
This paper presents a lattice gauge theory formulation that successfully captures the continuum Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index for Dirac operators on domains with compact boundaries by exploiting its equivalence to the spectral flow of generalized domain-wall fermion operators, proving its validity for sufficiently small lattice spacings.
This paper critiques Henry Lamm's manuscript "Ether of Orbifolds" for incorrectly interpreting the quantity as a measure of gauge violation or departure from SU(), clarifying instead that it characterizes the shift in effective lattice spacing and that the associated claims about simulation costs are unfounded.
This paper investigates how fluctuating domain walls in the three-dimensional Ising model modify bulk observables through an effective interaction with the lightest massive mode, identifying a controlled regime governed by a renormalized coupling and validating these universal predictions via Monte Carlo simulations.
This paper demonstrates that lattice Maxwell theory with a -term in a modified Villain formulation exhibits an exact SL(2,Z) duality by employing a non-local transformation within the S-transformation to eliminate non-locality in the absence of monopoles, resulting in a structure for Wilson loops that closely resembles that of non-spin Maxwell theory.
Using modified Villain discretization on both Euclidean lattices and quantum chains, this paper demonstrates that non-invertible topological interfaces arising from flat gauging and T-duality in the two-dimensional compact boson survive discretization by generating non-compact edge modes with infinite quantum dimension, while also showing how these modes can be compactified at rational radii to yield standard defects with finite quantum dimension.
This paper utilizes the density of states method in lattice field theory to characterize the first-order confinement/deconfinement phase transition in finite-temperature Yang-Mills theory, demonstrating the persistence of non-perturbative phenomena and establishing critical parameters for future continuum limit extrapolations relevant to gravitational wave predictions.
This paper employs QCD sum rules to investigate the masses of purely top-quark bound states, finding that the calculated pseudoscalar toponium mass aligns with recent CMS and ATLAS observations near the threshold while also providing theoretical predictions for the vector toponium and triply-top baryon to guide future high-energy collider experiments.
This paper presents the first sub-percent precision lattice QCD calculation of the next-to-leading order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment, yielding a result that is twice as precise as the 2025 White Paper estimate and exhibits a 4.6 tension with data-driven evaluations based on pre-CMD-3 hadronic cross-section measurements.
This paper investigates the quantum Ising model on (2+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter space using tensor networks to map its phase diagram, characterize boundary correlation scaling and entanglement entropy consistent with holography, and analyze scrambling behavior via out-of-time-ordered correlators.