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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 establishes a framework for constructing strong symmetry-breaking phases and their associated criticalities in mixed quantum states by utilizing the ground states of lattice gauge theories as their purified counterparts, thereby introducing new mixed-state topological phases and providing a method to study quantum operations between them.
This paper investigates (3+1)d topological orders with anomalous symmetry by microscopically constructing symmetry-preserving gapped boundary states for related (4+1)d SPT phases, demonstrating that such states admit a topological gauge theory description when , a non-TQFT solution when , and no symmetric gapped state otherwise, thereby confirming existing no-go theorems.
This paper provides two distinct derivations of the full nonlinear Schwarzian effective action governing the low-temperature soft mode of the large- SYK model and its chain generalization, demonstrating that these effective descriptions can be rigorously derived from microscopic dynamics without relying on additional assumptions or matching procedures.
This paper presents a scale setting and strong coupling determination for 2+1 flavor lattice QCD using HISQ ensembles, reporting precise gradient flow scales ( and ) and a potential scale () while providing a polynomial ansatz for predicting lattice spacings and estimating .
This paper formulates a WKB approach for quasiparticles with quartic dispersion, demonstrating that higher-order Airy-type functions and their hyperasymptotic corrections are essential for matching wave functions at turning points, leading to a generalized Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization condition that includes non-perturbative corrections even in the absence of tunneling.
This paper introduces new "vertical" intertwining operators that change the particle number in the quantum Calogero model for integer coupling, complementing existing "horizontal" operators to form a grid structure that enables the derivation of Liouville charges and a new basis of non-symmetric integrals through iterated intertwining.
This paper demonstrates that while staggered fermions fail to capture (2+1)D topological phases in lattice QED, Wilson fermions successfully enable the realization of diverse topological states like Chern insulators and quantum spin Hall phases, thereby resolving ambiguities in Hamiltonian formulations and providing a theoretical foundation for future quantum simulations on near-term quantum computing platforms.
This interdisciplinary paper proposes that the one-form global symmetry and its anomaly serve as a unifying organizing principle to constrain and uniquely identify the minimal topological orders underlying various fractional quantum Hall systems based on their Hall conductivity.
This paper derives a novel, local, and crossing-symmetric dispersion relation for 2-2 scattering amplitudes motivated by string theory, demonstrating its utility in bounding Wilson coefficients for gravitational effective field theories and providing convergent series representations for Veneziano, Virasoro-Shapiro, and multi-variable generalizations.
This paper proposes and rigorously establishes a symmetrization relation between 4d BPS quivers and 3d symmetric quivers, demonstrating that the wall-crossing structure of 4d Argyres-Douglas theories is isomorphic to the unlinking of their 3d counterparts and that these symmetric quivers successfully capture the Schur indices of the original 4d theories.