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Hep-Th, or high-energy theoretical physics, explores the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the forces that govern them. Researchers in this field use complex mathematics to understand everything from subatomic particles to the behavior of black holes, often pushing the boundaries of what we know about space and time.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper demonstrates that the Hanbury-Brown Twiss intensity correlations of photons in a quantized electromagnetic cavity are insensitive to the second-order coherence and super-Poissonian statistics of cosmic gravitons, rendering it impossible to infer the statistical properties of gravitons from photon measurements even in principle.
This paper constructs path integrals for quantum dynamics on Lie groups by addressing noncommutative momentum and compact directions through winding number sums, and applies this framework to derive semiclassical approximations for Euler-Arnold systems up to two-loop order.
This paper introduces combinatorial holographic quantum secret sharing (CHQSS) to characterize how bulk logical information is encoded and protected in the AdS/CFT boundary, deriving key metrics like distance and thresholds, analyzing multipartite entanglement wedge phase transitions, and constructing families of perfect threshold and non-threshold schemes.
This paper establishes a concrete quantum-classical crossover for simulating many-body dynamics by introducing a scalable fault-tolerant framework that, under realistic error rates, outperforms state-of-the-art classical algorithms in both runtime and resource efficiency for mixed-field Ising models.
This paper investigates vector excitations on local cosmic strings within the Abelian-Higgs model, demonstrating that these massive, localized modes persist across all scalar coupling regimes, decay via distinct mechanisms depending on the coupling strength, and trigger a parametric instability that simultaneously excites transverse string directions through nonlinear couplings.
This study demonstrates that the integrated gravitational wave memory from high-redshift binary mergers, which is significantly amplified by cosmological expansion and exhibits strong non-linear sensitivity to dark energy models, offers a novel and powerful independent probe to address cosmological tensions and constrain the nature of dark energy using next-generation detectors.
This paper revisits the chiral spectra of charged and uncharged branes in the 10d non-supersymmetric Sugimoto string theory to demonstrate consistent anomaly inflow cancellation and provide compelling evidence that the global structure of the gauge group is .
This paper initiates the mathematical study of the boundary Carrollian conformal algebra (BCCA) by constructing and analyzing its representation theory, including induced and Whittaker modules, while establishing irreducibility criteria and exploring its structural properties as a filtered but non-graded Lie algebra.
This paper demonstrates that the Chern--Simons extension of the Ginzburg--Landau model realizes a hybrid superconductivity where anyonic vortices, carrying both flux and charge, exhibit short-range repulsion and long-range attraction due to oscillatory gauge field screening, thereby enabling the formation of bound multi-vortex states and breaking the conventional type-I/type-II dichotomy.
This paper adapts the Hamilton-Jacobi method of holographic renormalization to scalar field theories in Minkowski spacetime, establishing a flat-space holographic dictionary where the renormalized canonical momentum yields the expectation value of a dual operator sourced by scattering data in a radial timelike foliation.