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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 establishes that the renormalized stress-energy tensor of a massless scalar field in a collapsing null-shell spacetime approaches the Unruh state with a non-zero power-law tail at late times, a result driven by the branch-point singularity in the radial wave equation's Wronskian and confirmed by both analytical bounds and numerical data.
This paper utilizes a five-dimensional holographic Einstein-Maxwell model with Chern-Simons terms to demonstrate that explicit symmetry breaking not only modifies anomaly-induced transport but also extends its influence to the non-anomalous sector, with transport coefficients showing a distinct dependence on the symmetry-breaking mass parameter.
This article proposes a non-perturbative path integral framework that identifies renormalons as saddle points of the one-loop effective action driven by the quantum scale anomaly, thereby unifying their explanation via representative finite-dimensional integrals with that of instantons.
This paper demonstrates that non-Hermitian hopping imbalances on bipartite Euclidean and hyperbolic lattices catalyze the formation of charge- and spin-density-wave orders at significantly weaker interaction strengths than in Hermitian systems by narrowing the band width while preserving the characteristic density of states scaling near zero energy.
This paper proposes a real-time effective field theory approach to calculate work statistics for extracting work from a thermal bath coupled to a qubit, demonstrating that spin or topological qubits outperform fermionic or spinless alternatives in heat engine and refrigerator efficiency due to their underlying quantum statistics.
This paper utilizes the Hamilton-Jacobi equation and Casimir effect techniques to derive analytical expressions for the thermodynamics of magnetized BPS baryonic layers within a gauged non-linear sigma model, establishing a unique connection between the grand canonical partition function and the Riemann zeta function while explicitly incorporating the effects of non-zero Isospin chemical potential.
This paper demonstrates that measurement-induced entanglement in Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids is a universal, conformally invariant phenomenon determined by the CFT's operator content, which can be exactly computed via a replica trick and fundamentally differs from entanglement induced by forcing specific measurement outcomes.
By constructing formal solutions to the Boltzmann moment equations, this paper demonstrates that relativistic hydrodynamics remains effective far from equilibrium not because systems are near equilibrium, but because non-perturbative modes allow it to smoothly interpolate between free-streaming and collective behavior, effectively explaining its success in modeling quark-gluon plasma.
This article establishes a unified, non-perturbative framework demonstrating that spatially modulated symmetries and their associated dipole algebras naturally emerge from the gauging of ordinary symmetries in the presence of generalized Lieb-Schultz-Mattis anomalies, and provides explicit lattice models as well as field-theoretic descriptions across arbitrary spatial dimensions.
This paper utilizes gauged double field theory to construct bi- and uni-vector deformations of 10d heterotic supergravity solutions, generalizing the "open/closed" map and applying it to specific examples such as the F1 string solution.