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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 generalizes statistical mechanical mapping methods to random circuits to derive precise formulas quantifying the dynamics of quantum magic—specifically its competition with entanglement, spreading under Clifford evolution, and manipulation via measurements—thereby elucidating its role as a fundamental resource for quantum computational advantage.
This paper investigates a power-law decaying quadratic SYK model to demonstrate how single-particle spectral transitions propagate to the many-body regime, revealing that the spectral form factor remains robust under reduced interaction ranges before perturbation theory breaks down and new spectral features emerge.
This paper derives a universal semiclassical description for the one-loop partition functions of probe M2-branes and fundamental strings in holographic duals of two families of 3d SCFTs, thereby predicting the large behavior of half-BPS Wilson loops and conjecturing their full perturbative completion as a ratio of Airy functions for M-theory duals.
This paper reviews Pati-Salam models derived from the spectral action principle in noncommutative geometry, which feature gauge coupling unification and limited scalar content, with a specific focus on the phenomenological implications of the scalar leptoquark for guiding future collider searches.
This paper proposes a one-loop radiative neutrino mass model featuring singlet-doublet dark matter and -odd scalars, demonstrating that quartic Higgs-scalar interactions can induce a first-order phase transition producing observable gravitational waves while simultaneously satisfying constraints from neutrino mass, the muon anomalous magnetic moment, and lepton flavor violation.
This paper introduces a novel, manifestly Lorentz-invariant action for duality-symmetric gauge theories featuring a new -gauge symmetry, which unifies potential and flux descriptions, enables straightforward minimal coupling to matter and supersymmetrisation, and provides a proof of charge quantisation applicable to both the new and Sen's formalisms.
This paper establishes novel analytic results for Virasoro modular and fusion kernels at rational central charges, revealing that these kernels can be expressed as linear combinations of non-symmetric functions with square-root branch point singularities, thereby demonstrating the crossing symmetry and modular covariance of timelike Liouville theory and suggesting a semiclassical, one-loop exact behavior relevant to 2d CFT and 3d TQFT.
This paper presents a systematic re-examination of symmetry classifications in three-Higgs-doublet models, identifying limitations in previous approaches and expanding the known set of realisable symmetries by incorporating generalized GOOFy transformations to provide a clearer theoretical framework for model building.
This paper proposes a Z3-symmetric extension of the Lorentz group to describe quark color triplets as entangled Lee-Wick fields with complex conjugate masses, resulting in sixth-order dispersion relations that naturally enforce the asymptotic confinement of colored quarks.
This paper demonstrates that the background instability of quintessence models can be comprehensively understood through the lens of entropy by showing that a rapid increase in matter entropy, driven by the distance conjecture, violates the covariant entropy bound and implies the existence of a finite event horizon that conflicts with the trans-Planckian censorship bound, while also linking scale separation to the AdS distance conjecture.