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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.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv repository to ensure you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving discipline. For every new preprint uploaded to arXiv under this category, our team generates both accessible plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge research understandable regardless of your background.
Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper demonstrates that Unruh thermalization of a Unruh-deWitt detector exhibits a quantum Mpemba-like effect where heating outpaces cooling, providing a novel fidelity-based diagnostic to distinguish this quantum phenomenon from classical thermalization.
This paper extends the phenomenon of hidden zeros to tree-level Yang-Mills and general relativity amplitudes with higher-derivative interactions by utilizing universal expansions into bi-adjoint scalar amplitudes to systematically resolve propagator singularities and ambiguities in their proof.
This paper extends the formalism of scale-invariant symmetry reduction to singular Lagrangian systems of both particles and fields by utilizing the De Donder-Weyl multisymplectic framework to construct dynamically equivalent frictional theories, with applications to physical models and implications for classical General Relativity.
This paper proposes a unified framework in dimensions, utilizing superpositions of odd and even products of operators as basis vectors to describe all observed fermions and bosons (including gravity) as having non-zero angular momentum only in four-dimensional spacetime, while demonstrating an equality between the number of internal states for fermions and bosons and deriving their corresponding Lagrangian density.
This paper generalizes the Antonini-Sasieta-Swingle construction of 3D holographic cosmologies by introducing a gluing procedure that adds arbitrary AdS tubes to heavy-particle wormhole solutions, enabling the creation of homogeneous and isotropic models while identifying conditions under which these cosmological saddles dominate the Euclidean path integral over alternative configurations.
This paper investigates static and dynamical spherically symmetric black holes within the Gravity from Entropy framework, demonstrating that the theory yields corrections to the Schwarzschild metric, aligns with current astrophysical observations, and predicts both a standard Hawking-like mass loss at intermediate scales and a constant background evaporation rate for large black holes due to inherent entropic leakage.
This paper demonstrates that in the ordered phase of a -symmetric collective spin system, the decoherence rate of localized pointer states exceeds that of energy eigenstates by a factor of up to 2.42 due to parity-induced suppression of cross-terms in the latter, a discrepancy that vanishes only in the thermodynamic limit where secular approximation fails.
This paper investigates the chaotic properties of coupled Arnol'd cat maps on circulant graphs, revealing through numerical simulations that entropy production does not increase with graph connectivity due to translational symmetry, while also analyzing the system's Lyapunov spectra, Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, and period spectra on a finite toroidal phase space.
This paper establishes the universality of hardware-efficient quantum gates for state preparation within particle and symmetry-constrained subspaces by leveraging Lie algebraic techniques and Pauli dressing to span the full or algebras, providing a verified framework for applications ranging from Hubbard models to conformal field theories.
This paper develops a field-theoretic loop expansion for homopolymer systems by mapping inverse polymer density to the Planck constant, demonstrating that the resulting next-to-leading-order correction (RPA+) qualitatively improves the prediction of dilute-phase coexistence densities compared to the standard random phase approximation.