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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 demonstrates that in Doubly Special Relativity, both local modified dispersion relations and rainbow-metric approaches yield a universal near-horizon black-hole temperature scaling determined solely by the ratio of deformation functions , with corrections becoming significant only in the Planck regime.
This paper applies the resurgence program to holomorphic quantum mechanics by utilizing the Bargmann representation to demonstrate that the quartic anharmonic oscillator's perturbative series is Gevrey-1 and Borel summable, explicitly constructing an instanton operator that bridges perturbative and non-perturbative sectors to reproduce classic Bender-Wu energy levels.
This paper resolves the DFSZ axion domain wall problem by demonstrating how the global structure of symmetry groups and non-invertible chiral symmetries enforce domain wall stability, suggesting that UV theories with small-instanton-induced symmetry breaking can naturally resolve the issue while producing distinct gravitational wave signatures.
This paper employs frequency- and time-domain simulations to characterize energy transfer from axion fields to magnetized plasmas in highly inhomogeneous environments, revealing efficient photon excitation, indirect Alfvén mode coupling, and energy transfer to sub-luminal plasma modes in localized under-densities.
This paper proposes that near-term neutral atom experiments can simulate Floquet Clifford circuits mimicking the Trotterized dynamics of holographic matrix models, demonstrating fast scrambling signatures and enabling a simplified Hayden-Preskill recovery protocol through stabilizer quantum error correction.
This paper presents a systematic two-loop analysis of axion effective field theory within the BMHV scheme, demonstrating how evanescent operators arising from the non-anticommuting nature of violate naive Ward identities and deriving the necessary finite renormalization to restore consistency and correctly recover the axial anomaly.
This paper extends the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) framework to include time-reversal symmetry by employing a symmetry-enriched approach, enabling the characterization of (1+1)d gapped phases and the analysis of subtle non-local string-order parameters and Klein bottle SPT invariants in the presence of anti-unitary symmetries.
This paper calculates half-maximal 4-point one-loop graviton amplitudes using string methods and infrared regularization via higher-point kinematics, employing analytically continued single-valued polylogarithms to obtain finite tensor structures and providing code to advance automation.
This paper demonstrates that deforming the spin-1 Babujian-Takhtajan chain with its third conserved charge, which acts as a dressed scalar-chirality operator, induces a quantum phase transition into a gapless, chiral current-carrying state described by a conformal field theory, a phenomenon verified through thermodynamic Bethe ansatz and DMRG simulations.
This paper proposes an intrinsic worldsheet description of ultra-high energy string scattering using tensionless null strings with induced vacuum symmetries, demonstrating that their constructed scattering amplitudes successfully reproduce the high-energy limits of standard string theory, including the Gross-Mende and Regge regimes, while revealing a fundamental blurring between open and closed strings and introducing new vertex operators unique to the zero-tension limit.