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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 constructs and analyzes homogeneous and string-like electric flux tube solutions in SU(3) gauge theory with fundamental scalar fields for an 8-type electric field, demonstrating that such configurations require multiple scalar fields and SU(2) subgroups with distinct frequencies, remain stable against Schwinger pair production, and exhibit weak radial electric fields due to their net color neutrality.
This paper investigates the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation from near-extremal Reissner-Nordström black holes under a specific mass-charge constraint, demonstrating that for certain scaling parameters, the entropy remains finite and avoids the explosive divergence seen in Schwarzschild black holes as long as the mass exceeds the Planck scale.
This paper investigates how massive Kaluza-Klein modes in the 2D effective theory of charged black holes induce a charge-dependent correction to the graviphoton kinetic term via tree-level mixing, which becomes parametrically significant near extremality, while one-loop corrections remain independent of the charge.
This paper demonstrates that an adaptation of the Fröhlich-Pizzo model, utilizing local algebras of a chiral current, effectively captures the non-Markovian features of the horizon-induced decoherence mechanism identified by Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald in the limit of large holding time.
This paper develops a generalized coordinate Bethe ansatz framework for the time-dependent massive Thirring model featuring a rapidity lattice and Ruijsenaars-type difference equations, which reveals that exponential mass evolution is required for integrability and establishes a new realization of the time-dependent integrability-renormalization group correspondence.
This paper investigates the breaking of scale symmetry in supersymmetric quantum electrodynamics (SQED) using a supersymmetry-preserving four-dimensional regularization, demonstrating that while classical breaking arises from mass terms, quantum breaking is driven by the beta function in the massless limit and consistently reproduces standard quantum electrodynamics results in the heavy selectron limit via the Appelquist-Carazzone theorem.
This paper establishes the existence of linearly stable and causal BDNK hydrodynamic frames for arbitrary equations of state and transport coefficients by employing Routh-Hurwitz simplification and telegrapher factorization to provide concrete examples, map neutral-to-charged fluid frames, and introduce an AI protocol for discovering such frames in any hydrodynamic theory.
This paper proposes a new class of C-violating and P-conserving CP-violating sources that evade current electric dipole moment constraints while offering a viable mechanism for explaining the universe's baryon asymmetry.
This pedagogical paper derives the 1+1D Wess--Zumino model with a central extension from Wigner's theorem, demonstrating how compactifying the central charge's coordinate yields a Kaluza--Klein tower of massive multiplets while preserving the kink as a BPS-saturating zero mode.
This paper demonstrates that componentwise D7-tadpole cancellation in smooth Type IIB Calabi-Yau orientifolds with O7 components cannot yield a chiral Standard Model, as the resulting gauge structures and disjointness constraints inevitably prevent the existence of massless quark-doublet fermions.