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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 review synthesizes the theoretical foundations and physical consequences of quantum anomalies in QCD, demonstrating how the axial and trace anomalies link vacuum topology and gluonic dynamics to the resolution of the problem, the generation of hadron masses, and the structure of the nucleon spin.
This paper demonstrates that a two-dimensional effective dilaton gravity theory derived from four-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory successfully reproduces the semiclassical thermodynamic phase structure of charged AdS black holes, while showing that one-loop Kaluza-Klein photon corrections only induce constant shifts in entropy and charge parameters without qualitatively altering this phase structure.
This paper investigates the hydrodynamic properties of a strongly coupled non-Abelian plasma dual to a four-dimensional AdS black brane with a nonminimal curvature-gauge coupling, demonstrating that this higher-derivative interaction significantly modifies the DC color conductivity and shear viscosity-to-entropy density ratio, potentially violating their respective universal bounds depending on the sign of the coupling constant.
This paper investigates the bipartite entanglement entropy of Bethe states across various integrable spin chains, systematically identifying the specific solutions that minimize and maximize entanglement, revealing that while the ground state often minimizes entropy in the XXX model, this correspondence breaks down in higher-spin and non-compact chains, and further developing an optimization algorithm to explore maximum entanglement for off-shell states.
This paper investigates the short-time behavior of real-time pseudo entropy, demonstrating that its initial imaginary and real responses are fundamentally governed by the symmetrized covariance and commutator, respectively, between the physical Hamiltonian and the modular Hamiltonian, thereby revealing pseudo entropy as a time-oriented modular response rather than a mere branch artifact.
This paper derives a universal expression for the leading finite-volume effects on smeared vector-vector spectral densities using two distinct approaches, demonstrating that these effects are exponentially suppressed and governed by the pion form factor, thereby providing a framework to reliably estimate and control volume extrapolations in lattice QCD calculations.
This paper establishes a systematic framework within worldline effective field theory to define and compute the dynamical tidal response of neutron stars by matching gravitational-wave scattering amplitudes between the effective theory and full stellar perturbation theory, thereby resolving coordinate ambiguities and recovering key physical features like static limits, resonant behaviors, and dissipative effects.
This paper investigates the brane origin of supersymmetric, scale-separated AdS flux vacua in type IIB orientifold reductions by utilizing effective supergravity and ten-dimensional constructions to identify the underlying D1- and D5-brane configurations and explicitly build interpolating solutions and higher-dimensional intersections that realize these vacua.
This paper proposes embedding the Klein-Gordon equation into a pair of coupled first-order equations to demonstrate the existence of two positive conserved quantities, thereby resolving the historical issue of negative probabilities without requiring quantum field theory and suggesting a relativistic framework where particle-antiparticle annihilation does not occur, offering a potential explanation for dark matter.
This paper computes the exact analytical inflationary trispectrum of primordial gauge fields arising from scalar and tensor exchanges in spectator models, revealing distinct momentum and angular dependencies that establish hierarchical relations with lower-order correlations and offer novel observational signatures for early-universe tensor interactions.