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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.

⚛️ general relativity

Quantum work extraction of an accelerated battery as an indicator of trajectory-modified vacuum fluctuations in Minkowski spacetime

This paper proposes an accelerated Unruh-DeWitt battery model to demonstrate that the maximal quantum work extraction (ergotropy) serves as a witness for trajectory-modified vacuum fluctuations, revealing distinct thermality behaviors between linear and circular motions and significant oscillations near reflecting boundaries driven by the protection of quantum coherence.

Xiang Hao, Cheng-Tai Wu, Wei-Wei Zhang, Gao-Feng Gan, Tian-Xi Ren, Jia-Yin Shen, Yin-Zhong Wu2026-07-01

⚛️ high-energy theory

Universal geometry as an organising principle for heterotic moduli

This paper reviews how fibering heterotic compactification data over moduli space reveals a universal geometric structure where deformations act as curvature components, thereby incorporating $\alpha'^2$ supersymmetry corrections.

Jock McOrist2026-07-01

🔢 mathematics

Boundaries in the Instantaneous Formulation of Field Theories

This paper investigates boundary conditions in GiMmsy's instantaneous formulation of field theories, demonstrating that they induce a sector structure in the state space and lead to a novel definition of boundary symmetry groups, which for electromagnetism reduces to the global gauge group even when accounting for flux superselection sectors in Yang-Mills theory.

Silvester G. A. Borsboom2026-07-01

⚛️ general relativity

Galaxy bias renormalization: Two-loop Power Spectrum, One-loop Trispectrum and Bispectrum

This paper presents a complete, fully renormalized framework for fifth-order galaxy bias at the one- and two-loop levels, providing explicit computations for the two-loop power spectrum, one-loop bispectrum, and trispectrum while incorporating stochastic renormalization and demonstrating a pronounced scale-dependence in higher-gradient bias coefficients.

Thomas Bakx, Mathias Garny, Henrique Rubira, Zvonimir Vlah2026-07-01

🔢 mathematics

Non-invertible symmetries and modular invariance in lattice models

This paper presents a generic algorithm to decompose the transfer-matrix space of classical 2d lattice models with Temperley-Lieb face interactions into simple modules, enabling the analysis of topological operator actions and the computation of modular transformations for irreducible characters at primitive roots of unity.

Yacine Ikhlef2026-07-01

⚛️ high-energy theory

Two-scalar-field $f(R)$ Thick Branes, Gravitational Resonances and Quasinormal Modes

This paper investigates two-scalar-field thick branes in $f(R)$ gravity and concludes that while a singular branch exhibits sharp peaks, the physically admissible ghost-free branch lacks long-lived tensor resonances, instead supporting only broad, short-lived massive Kaluza-Klein quasinormal modes.

Xin-Yi Pan, Heng Guo, Jing-Xin Gong, Hong-Tao Jiang2026-07-01

⚛️ high-energy theory

Critical Lin-Lunin-Maldacena geometries

This paper investigates the critical behavior of Lin-Lunin-Maldacena geometries arising from cusps in the dual complex matrix model, revealing a universal $ISO(1,3)\times SO(5)$ symmetric supergravity solution with a naked line singularity that traps particles and suggests integrability through explicit analytic solutions.

Prokopii Anempodistov, Vladimir Kazakov, Lev Senchukov2026-07-01

⚛️ lattice

Hadronic exceptional points

This paper proposes that imaginary magnetic fields induce non-Hermitian dynamics in hadronic systems, revealing the existence of exceptional points in neutral meson mass spectra that separate real and complex eigenvalue regimes and signal a field-induced deconfinement transition.

Ahmad Jafar Arifi, Kei Suzuki2026-07-01

⚛️ high-energy theory

Monitoring a de Sitter universe through an anti-de Sitter window

This paper proposes a holographic duality where AdS $_3$ gravity coupled to dS $_2$ end-of-the-world branes corresponds to a unitary CFT $_2$ with non-unitary boundary conditions, thereby realizing de Sitter holography as the unitary time evolution of a state prepared by a Euclidean path integral with complex $g$ -functions.

Sarah Hoback, Daniel L. Jafferis, Zixia Wei2026-07-01

⚛️ high-energy theory

The exceptional origin of the strange metal and the LFL-HFL transition

This paper proposes an algebraic framework based on the exceptional superconformal algebra $D(2,1;\alpha)$ to explain the emergence of strange metals as a $0+1$ D superconformal bath arising from the competition between Landau-Fermi and Hubbard-Fermi liquid states, yielding a parameter-free thermodynamic relation and mapping out a discontinuous low-temperature phase transition.

Eoin Quinn2026-07-01

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Quantum work extraction of an accelerated battery as an indicator of trajectory-modified vacuum fluctuations in Minkowski spacetime

Universal geometry as an organising principle for heterotic moduli

Boundaries in the Instantaneous Formulation of Field Theories

Galaxy bias renormalization: Two-loop Power Spectrum, One-loop Trispectrum and Bispectrum

Non-invertible symmetries and modular invariance in lattice models

Two-scalar-field f(R)f(R)f(R) Thick Branes, Gravitational Resonances and Quasinormal Modes

Critical Lin-Lunin-Maldacena geometries

Hadronic exceptional points

Monitoring a de Sitter universe through an anti-de Sitter window

The exceptional origin of the strange metal and the LFL-HFL transition

Two-scalar-field $f(R)$ Thick Branes, Gravitational Resonances and Quasinormal Modes