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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.
Using a 4000-qubit quantum annealer to simulate a two-dimensional quantum Ising model, researchers demonstrated a distinct regime of false vacuum decay where resonant conditions enable domain growth to vastly outpace nucleation, resulting in nearly ballistic expansion consistent with Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality.
This paper presents the first calculation of mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to Higgs boson pair production in the quark-antiquark channel, deriving fully analytic virtual amplitudes and implementing them in the POWHEG-BOX framework to reveal significant shape modifications in differential cross sections, particularly near the production threshold.
This paper derives the Klein–Gordon equation and relativistic kinematics from the foundational assumption of intrinsic phase periodicity in material fields, establishing mass as an intrinsic frequency scale and providing a unified wave-mechanical interpretation of particle dynamics without requiring rest energy as an independent axiom.
This paper demonstrates that damped heavy neutrino-antineutrino oscillations significantly alleviate the suppression of lepton number violation in symmetry-protected pseudo-Dirac heavy neutral leptons at hadron colliders, while showing that combining lepton-number-blind and lepton-number-violating searches can distinguish these models from the double-Majorana limit despite the sensitivity challenges posed by small mass splittings.
This paper investigates the invertible and non-invertible generalized symmetries in four-dimensional axiverse effective field theories, demonstrating how quantum-gravitational effects like wormholes and the Imaginary Distance Bound break non-invertible axion shift symmetries and, in N=1 models, induce towers of BPS instantons that generate infinite superpotential terms.
This paper demonstrates that the Kogut-Susskind Hamiltonian emerges as the infinite scalar mass limit of the more efficient orbifold lattice formulation, thereby resolving implementation challenges and enabling digital quantum simulations of SU() Yang-Mills theories with exponential speedup over classical and prior quantum methods.
By performing a joint analysis of DESI DR2, CMB, DESY5 supernova, and DESY1 weak lensing data within a dynamical dark energy framework, this study reports a high-confidence detection of a positive total neutrino mass of , driven by DESI's preference for evolving dark energy and the inclusion of free effective neutrino species and weak lensing constraints.
This paper constructs new families of exact higher-dimensional Lifshitz-type black hole and black brane solutions in -corrected gravity at the critical point, revealing that these configurations exhibit vanishing entropy and zero conserved charges despite possessing non-zero temperatures due to the theory's degenerate field equations.
These lecture notes from Les Houches offer a concise overview of the conceptual, computational, and mathematical foundations of tensor networks, presenting them as a powerful framework for understanding and simulating strongly correlated quantum matter by leveraging entanglement structures to overcome the many-body exponential wall.
This paper numerically constructs and analyzes a family of critical spacetime crystals in arbitrary continuous dimensions , determining their echoing periods and Choptuik exponents as continuous functions of and supporting these findings with analytical expansions that suggest both quantities vanish as approaches 3.