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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 computes the one-loop contribution to the semiclassical partition function of static, charged near-extremal black holes in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, revealing that tensor, vector, and gauge fluctuations induce universal logarithmic corrections to the entropy with a low-temperature scaling of .
This paper demonstrates that the pushforward of the product of Haar measures by the lattice Yang-Mills action exhibits a concentration of measure phenomenon converging to a Gaussian distribution, which can be utilized to recover the strong-coupling expansion.
This paper employs a rule-based holographic method to reconstruct dual gravity theories and extract thermodynamic and renormalization group flow information from both analytical and numerical entanglement entropy data of two-dimensional conformal and deformed conformal field theories.
This paper demonstrates that causality is an exceptionally rare constraint in quantum field theory by proving that the set of causal quantum channels is nowhere dense within the set of local channels and that causal unitaries have Haar measure zero among all unitaries acting on a lattice.
This paper develops a quantum field-theoretic framework that derives a generalized Lindblad master equation to describe neutrino decoherence from momentum-changing scattering in a medium, explicitly linking decoherence parameters to scattering cross sections to probe new physics scenarios including non-standard interactions and dark matter.
This paper presents a unified analytical and numerical study of one-dimensional spin-0 particles using the Feshbach-Villars formalism to solve the Klein-Gordon equation for various external potentials, including Coulomb, Cornell, and Woods-Saxon interactions, while analyzing their bound states, charge densities, and relativistic effects compared to non-relativistic limits.
This paper investigates the integrability structures of quantum and stochastic deformations of the rule-54 reversible cellular automaton by proving the existence of an infinite tower of conserved charges for the quantum case via a range-6 Lax operator and explicitly constructing the non-equilibrium steady state for the stochastic case with open boundaries using a staggered patch matrix ansatz.
This paper develops Landau analysis for Feynman integrals using momentum twistors, identifying the resulting discriminants with Hurwitz and Chow forms to reveal a geometric mechanism linking the amplituhedron map and promotion maps to the emergence of positivity and cluster structures in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory.
This paper derives exact quasinormal modes for massive scalar, fermionic, and vector perturbations around a rotating BTZ-like black hole in Einstein-bumblebee gravity, revealing that the Lorentz symmetry breaking parameter slows field decay by affecting only the imaginary parts of the frequencies while preserving the standard BTZ real parts and confirming the validity of the AdS/CFT correspondence through universal conformal weights.
This paper extends the tensor-network renormalization group (TNRG) method to incorporate lattice and PT symmetries in two dimensions by applying it to the hard-square lattice gas model, thereby enabling accurate estimation of critical parameters and scaling dimensions for its continuous phase transitions.