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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 derives a model-independent upper limit on the amplitude of a chiral gravitational wave background produced before the electroweak epoch, which, for high reheating temperatures, provides a significantly more stringent constraint than standard big bang nucleosynthesis bounds at frequencies above the MHz scale.
This paper establishes three distinct representations for the flat space wavefunction derived from a graph , proving their correctness by linking the wavefunction to the canonical form of the cosmological polytope and confirming a conjecture regarding its partial fraction decomposition in terms of connected subgraphs.
This paper argues that the Wilson-Fisher fixed point at integer dimensions is not identical to the critical Ising model but rather contains it as a subsector, a conclusion supported by the analysis of negative operator multiplicities in the model and the incompatibility of a literal equality with emergent Virasoro symmetry in two dimensions.
This paper constructs and analyzes the stability of electron star solutions in asymptotically global AdS spacetime to model a holographic metal in a finite volume, revealing a phase diagram organized around a quantum critical point at finite chemical potential.
This paper proposes and verifies a correction to an elliptic block in the 2d superconformal field theory NS sector by analyzing the 4-point block in pillow geometry and confirming the result through crossing symmetry checks in super Liouville theory and comparisons between - and -recursion methods.
Motivated by string T-duality, this paper constructs a nonsingular "black bounce" spacetime that interpolates between regular black holes and traversable wormholes, demonstrating its thermodynamic stability, phase transitions, and consistency with Event Horizon Telescope observations while identifying the specific energy conditions violated by the underlying effective fluid.
This paper presents a systematic study of the continuum spectrum of spherical multi-frequency Proca stars, demonstrating that they interpolate between discrete stationary states and that a subset of these configurations are linearly stable, with potential implications for determining particle spin in ultralight dark matter models.
This paper resolves the inability of staggered-fermion discretizations to support topological phases in (2+1)D Hamiltonian lattice QED by demonstrating that Wilson fermions naturally enable nontrivial topological regimes with nonzero Chern numbers, which are characterized through gauge-invariant diagnostics and exact diagonalization to provide a foundation for near-term quantum simulations.
This paper establishes rigorous bounds demonstrating that the classical simulability of quantum operators via matrix-product operators is determined by the scaling of their local-operator entanglement, where logarithmic growth of Rényi entropies for guarantees efficient approximation while volume-law scaling for precludes it.
This paper investigates vacuum Cherenkov radiation induced by nonminimal dimension-5 isotropic Lorentz-violating operators in the fermion sector and utilizes ultra-high-energy cosmic ray data to establish stringent constraints on the corresponding quark coefficients.