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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 proposes a heterotic string-inspired two-field warm inflation model involving an axion and a dilaton, demonstrating through numerical analysis that viable inflation is predominantly axion-driven and effectively single-field, with thermal corrections generally suppressing the role of the dilaton.
This paper utilizes the AdS/BCFT correspondence within Horndeski gravity to model constriction and normal Josephson junctions, revealing how Horndeski parameters modulate the critical temperature, quasiparticle condensate formation, and the supercurrent's phase dependence in a second-order phase transition.
This paper proposes a high-quality axion model where the axion arises as a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson of baryon number symmetry in a composite sector (such as SQCD with ), naturally suppressing dangerous symmetry-breaking operators due to the high dimension of the baryon operator while generating the required coupling to gluons through flavor symmetry anomalies.
This paper proposes that dark matter is not a new particle but an emergent, dynamical state arising from the interaction between a three-form gauge field and the cosmic fluid, offering a unified framework for the dark sector that suggests conventional dark matter searches may be futile.
This paper proposes that General Relativity can be modeled as a degenerate Otto cycle in emergent gravity, where introducing work-producing legs generates controlled Lorentz and energy-momentum violations that drive late-time cosmological acceleration.
This study investigates domain wall formation driven by spontaneous symmetry breaking in Scalar-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, finding that while static walls can exist in de Sitter space, cosmic expansion causes their dissolution, ultimately ruling out the generation of observable primordial black holes or large-amplitude stochastic gravitational waves from this mechanism.
This paper establishes an expansion formula for one-loop Einstein-Yang-Mills integrands with a gluon loop in terms of conventional one-loop Yang-Mills integrands by utilizing a two-step expansion strategy through tree-level amplitudes, demonstrating that the resulting kinematic coefficients match those of Yang-Mills-scalar theories and thereby providing a foundation for constructing one-loop BCJ numerators.
This paper proposes a new non-local ultraviolet completion for general inflationary models that preserves their successful classical predictions while resolving previous issues with renormalizability and stability, thereby demonstrating the consistency of the inflationary paradigm with a well-defined quantum theory of gravity.
This paper demonstrates that the TETRIS-ADAPT-VQE algorithm can achieve high-fidelity ground state preparation for random all-to-all Hamiltonians like the SK and SYK models, though it remains efficient only for the SK model while failing to scale efficiently for dense or moderately sparse SYK models.
This paper derives an analytical approximation for the graviton propagator within Asymptotic Safety, demonstrating that the theory preserves General Relativity's field content without introducing extra poles or violating unitarity and causality, as spurious poles vanish in the limit of higher-order derivative expansions.