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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 analytically derives the concurrence for mixed qubit states in relativistic scattering, demonstrating that the leading-order entanglement depends on the real part of the inelastic forward amplitude and the initial state, while also revealing a connection between this amplitude and the reduction of linearized entropy.
This paper proposes using Euclidean black hole solutions with corners instead of conical singularities to demonstrate the equivalence of actions for deriving Wald entropy in generic gravity and to directly obtain the ADM Hamiltonian conjugate to the horizon's Killing vector field.
This paper introduces a robust, -dimensional modular framework that systematically constructs higher-derivative four-point contact amplitudes involving fermions by combining gauge-invariant kinematic blocks with permutation-invariant polynomials, thereby ensuring manifest compatibility with the double-copy program and facilitating the generation of operator towers for gauge and gravity theories.
This paper establishes a connection between the Mano-Suzuki-Takasugi formalism and worldline effective field theory to analyze the dynamical tidal response of non-rotating black holes in general relativity, revealing that renormalized tidal response functions and resulting Love numbers are inherently scheme-dependent and sensitive to initial renormalization conditions.
This paper presents a general, unique, and complete framework for unitarizing non-relativistic scattering by deriving anti-Hermitian kernels from inelastic channels, which enables the consistent treatment of bound states, non-convergent amplitudes via renormalization, and applications to dark-matter phenomenology.
This paper introduces "twisted Feynman integrals" characterized by an additional linear exponential factor in the integrand, establishes their geometric framework as exponential periods, and generalizes standard computational tools to reveal that their Symanzik polynomials become graded and their function space geometry cannot be determined solely by leading singularities.
This paper introduces a new mechanism called "symmetry spans," where a global symmetry embedded into two larger symmetries enforces infrared gaplessness when no compatible gapped phase exists, offering a powerful tool to establish symmetry-enforced gaplessness even with discrete and non-anomalous continuous symmetries.
The paper introduces SAILIR, a self-supervised machine learning framework that utilizes a transformer-based classifier to perform Feynman loop integral reduction with bounded memory consumption, offering a scalable alternative to traditional Laporta-based methods that struggle with memory limitations as complexity increases.
This paper establishes a historical optical foundation for stationary vacuum Kerr--Schild spacetimes by demonstrating how a single complex optical seed, derived from expansion and twist, algebraically reconstructs the spacetime congruence and serves as the normalized zeroth-copy data that generates both the metric profile and the associated single-copy gauge field within the double-copy framework.
By modeling string dynamics within finite-lifetime causal diamonds rather than assuming eternal existence, the paper demonstrates that tensionless strings emerge exclusively at their moment of birth, revealing a new phase characterized by a global, ultra-local Carrollian structure.