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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 by engineering a cylindrical cavity, the interplay between boundary conditions and uniform acceleration can suppress decoherence in quantum detectors, effectively using Unruh thermality to enhance rather than degrade quantum coherence.
This paper establishes that the criteria for Symmetric Mass Generation (SMG) are satisfied by the staggered fermion action in lattice QCD, proposes a renormalization group flow around the SMG transition based on numerical results, and identifies Goldstone tetraquark meson states as a phenomenological signature of the "type-II" SMG phase.
This paper derives exact general relativistic solutions for cylindrically symmetric spacetimes filled with a perfect fluid obeying a linear equation of state, specifically obtaining explicit metric functions for stiff fluid () and other cases across three distinct geometric scenarios to provide a framework for modeling anisotropic cosmologies and early-universe dynamics.
This paper introduces the "holographic banner," a new object derived from the on-shell bulk action that treats the left, right, future, and past interior states of eternal AdS black holes on equal footing, enabling the construction of semiclassical interior states from boundary data and providing a framework to map boundary conditions to near-singularity quantum cosmology governed by chaotic BKL dynamics.
This paper refutes recent claims that -vacua theories lack CP violation by demonstrating that preserving large gauge invariance in finite volumes requires edge modes, which ensure the standard -vacuum structure and its associated observable CP violation remain intact in the infinite-volume limit.
This paper investigates Quantum Electrodynamics in two-dimensional de Sitter space, demonstrating how cosmological expansion drives the system through a pseudo-critical spectral region that governs the loss of adiabaticity, excitation growth, and the emergence of an irreversibility front detectable via local observables.
This paper argues that the non-trivial topological structure of the Euclidean Schwarzschild black hole manifold supports non-trivial electromagnetic configurations that, through the electromagnetic -term, induce $CP$-asymmetric Hawking radiation manifested as an imbalance between left- and right-polarized photons.
This paper establishes a concrete lattice realization of Type-IV 't Hooft anomalies to demonstrate how their gauging generates emergent higher-categorical symmetries, including a novel defect-dependent structure that fundamentally constrains quantum phases in Lieb-Schultz-Mattis systems.
This paper proposes that black hole mass can be reinterpreted as a topological charge arising from "bubble spacetimes" in first-order gravity, where the boundary between degenerate and nondegenerate metric phases coincides with the photon sphere and is characterized by a universal topological number, while the event horizon remains topologically trivial.
This paper introduces a Physics-Guided Neural Network that integrates Holographic QCD principles with deep learning to accurately model the proton structure function across non-perturbative and transition regimes, achieving a high-precision fit to SLAC data while dynamically identifying the kinematic crossover between hadronic resonances and holographic Pomeron exchange.