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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.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper presents a minimal, resource-efficient framework for digitally simulating SU() pure Yang-Mills theory in 3+1 dimensions by combining an orbifold lattice protocol with simplified Hamiltonians and SU(2) embedding techniques, while validating these analytical improvements through Monte Carlo benchmarks to support practical quantum simulation of non-Abelian gauge theories.
This paper corrects the subleading coefficient in the regular-center Frobenius expansion for static tidal perturbations of relativistic stars and extends the even-parity master equation to Schwarzschild-de Sitter backgrounds, demonstrating that while the corrected coefficient alters initial data, it does not affect the extracted Love number .
This paper introduces a primal bootstrap framework using finite-resolution sampling to derive improved projective bounds and new non-projective constraints on effective field theories with graviton poles, demonstrating that in five dimensions the EFT cutoff cannot exceed the Planck scale and revealing distinct extremal spectral structures characterized by quadratic Regge-like trajectories or sharp bands.
This paper introduces a novel Kontorovich-Lebedev-Fourier frequency-momentum space for de Sitter correlators derived from the decomposition of spacetime isometry group representations, which simplifies perturbative computations by transforming propagators into rational functions and recasting loop integrals as orthogonality relations among group-theoretical coefficients.
This paper demonstrates that the Aretakis instability weakens as the degree of horizon degeneracy increases, leading to the proposal of a new black hole geometry with an infinitely degenerate horizon that is stable and could serve as a final "graveyard" state for extremal black holes.
This paper investigates a multi-field inflationary scenario where the Chern-Simons gravitational term is coupled to a massive spectator field rather than the inflaton, deriving the resulting parity-violating interactions and demonstrating that they produce distinctive parity-odd shapes in primordial scalar-tensor bispectra while establishing constraints on the model's couplings and non-Gaussianity amplitudes.
This paper provides a systematic comparative study of chaos indicators in closed and open Dicke models, revealing that spectral form factors can exhibit chaotic signatures even in the regular closed regime while demonstrating that the dissipative spectral form factor robustly identifies the concurrence of the superradiant phase transition and a shift to Ginibre Unitary Ensemble statistics in the open system.
By formulating the renormalization group as a quantum channel, this paper establishes hyperscaling relations for ground-state fidelity in critical quantum field theories, demonstrating that expectation values of slow momentum modes can be accurately approximated by their fixed-point limits to improve the efficiency of numerical and analytical simulations.
This paper presents a concrete mechanism for constructing metastable four-dimensional de Sitter vacua in heterotic string theory by combining non-geometric R-flux compactifications, governed by Malcev and Sabinin algebra structures, with leading torsion-squared corrections and hidden-sector gaugino condensation to stabilize the scalar potential at positive energy.
This paper resolves discrepancies in the literature regarding ultraviolet divergences in cosmological correlators by demonstrating that various renormalization schemes yield consistent, unitary results and establishing a practical framework where the imaginary part of one-loop wavefunction coefficients is universally fixed by the logarithmic running of the real part.