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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 presents a Wakimoto-like free field realization of the current algebra at level without gauging, demonstrating that the resulting tensionless hybrid string partition function precisely reproduces the single-particle spectrum of the symmetric orbifold theory .
This paper demonstrates that Bose polarons immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate can exhibit topological properties, including emergent Weyl nodes, nonzero Berry curvature, and chiral anomaly, driven solely by interspecies -wave Feshbach coupling without the need for spin degrees of freedom or spin-orbit coupling.
This paper extends the folklore conjecture on Nahm sums to generalized settings involving $ABCDEFGT$ type Dynkin diagrams, demonstrating that these sums correspond to characters of specific 2d rational conformal field theories, including supersymmetric Virasoro minimal models.
This paper investigates the thermodynamic properties, optical characteristics (including black hole shadows), particle trajectories, innermost stable circular orbits, and greybody factors of a charged black hole in bumblebee gravity with a global monopole, specifically analyzing how Lorentz symmetry violation and the monopole influence these physical phenomena.
This paper constructs and analyzes one-dimensional boundary Hamiltonians derived from two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases on a triangular lattice, revealing that their edge mode structures are governed by the arithmetic properties of —manifesting as commuting Temperley-Lieb algebras for prime and hierarchical factorized forms for composite —while demonstrating that all such phases arise from primary models augmented by local defects and exhibit anomalous projective symmetry realizations.
This paper establishes a connection between the superconformal index of Super Yang-Mills theory and the elliptic Ruijsenaars-Schneider integrable system by expressing the index in terms of elliptic Macdonald polynomials, which enables a systematic perturbative expansion in the elliptic parameter and recovers known results in specific limits.
This paper investigates the stability and phase transitions in a holographic superfluid model with higher-order self-interactions and non-minimal coupling, revealing that thermodynamic and dynamical stabilities are consistent and demonstrating a novel double critical phenomenon where increasing the non-minimal coupling parameter causes the system to transition from a first-order phase transition region to a supercritical region and then back to a first-order region.
This paper demonstrates that the two-point function of the dual -adic string worldsheet action on the Tate curve, derived from the quotient of the Bruhat-Tits tree by a genus 1 Schottky group, coincides with the Néron-Tate local height function.
This paper constructs a family of exactly solvable relativistic kinetic theories in 1+1 dimensions that continuously interpolate between Fickian and Cattaneo diffusion via a tunable scattering parameter, enabling the analytical derivation of the full quasinormal mode spectrum to explicitly track the transition from purely diffusive to damped propagating modes.
This paper demonstrates that introducing a massive gauge boson with family-dependent couplings to left-handed leptons allows quantum effects to increase the rank of the neutrino mass matrix at the one-loop level, thereby enabling the dynamical generation of observed neutrino mass differences and mixing angles.