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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 utilizes holographic models of near-extremal AdS black holes to demonstrate that 2D quantum critical theories with strong translational symmetry breaking and zero average chemical potential exhibit enhanced conductivity, bad-metal electrical transport with non-Drude thermal behavior, and approximately linear-in-field magnetoresistance.
Through extensive time-domain numerical simulations of a Schwarzschild black hole in a cubic-in-curvature effective-field-theory extension of general relativity, this paper demonstrates that while the loss of isospectrality between polar and axial quasinormal modes complicates the identification of individual fundamental modes in gravitational waveforms, it can still provide evidence for non-general-relativistic physics.
This paper establishes a general framework for constructing -site chiral integrable matrix product states in the ABJM spin chain using reflection equations and fusion, while deriving exact overlap formulas for four-site states and investigating their chiral integrable subspaces numerically.
This paper investigates the emergence and detection of Hawking radiation in a quenched 1D chiral spin chain by mapping its dynamics to a curved spacetime Dirac fermion, revealing that while the radiation spectrum exhibits greybody-like deviations, a weakly coupled qubit detector can faithfully measure the Hawking temperature, whereas strong coupling obscures the thermal signature by thermalizing with the global environment.
This paper reviews recent STAR experiment results on net-proton multiplicity fluctuations from RHIC BES-II collisions to search for the QCD critical point by comparing fourth-order cumulant and factorial cumulant ratios with non-critical theoretical models while addressing initial volume fluctuations and outlining future research directions.
This paper investigates the geodesic motion and epicyclic oscillations of particles around Einstein-Skyrme Anti-de Sitter black holes, revealing a unique signature where the radial frequency overtakes the orbital frequency at large distances, and demonstrates through MCMC analysis of X-ray binary and galactic center QPO data that this model consistently fits observations with a Skyrme charge parameter of approximately 0.6.
This paper investigates equatorial periodic orbits and their gravitational wave signatures in Euler-Heisenberg black holes surrounded by perfect fluid dark matter, revealing how quantum electrodynamic corrections and dark matter jointly modify orbital stability and produce distinct burst-like waveform features that serve as sensitive probes for strong-field gravity.
This paper investigates how higher-group and non-invertible symmetries in axion effective field theories impose parametric constraints on the emergence of infrared symmetries, revealing that these constraints are universally saturated by anomaly inflow onto topological defects but become redundant in perturbative ultraviolet completions due to scale separation.
This paper constructs rotating thin shell solutions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity by gluing two spacetimes with different mass and angular momentum parameters, deriving their equations of motion and analyzing the stability and collapse dynamics of both general and vacuum shells, including cases that lead to naked singularities.
This paper utilizes holographic methods to systematically analyze strong-coupling defect renormalization group flows in ABJM theory, mapping worldsheet fluctuations to dual operators and establishing a coherent picture where the 1/2 BPS Wilson loop is IR stable, the 1/6 BPS loop acts as a saddle point, and non-supersymmetric configurations serve as UV fixed points.