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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 holographic one-point functions for toroidal and cylindrical Wilson surface operators, revealing their intricate dependence on geometry and position through analytical and numerical methods that involve averaging over the dual membrane moduli space.
Using unbiased quantum Monte Carlo simulations, this study confirms the existence of a symmetric mass generation transition in a bilayer honeycomb lattice model at a critical coupling of , identifies its novel universality class distinct from mean-field theory, and demonstrates that its nonequilibrium dynamics obey generalized finite-time scaling despite the breakdown of standard Kibble-Zurek prerequisites.
This paper investigates the evolution of massive and massless neutrinos in rotating matter by solving the Dirac equation in a corotating frame, deriving a nonzero electroweak vector current analogous to the chiral vortical effect, and analyzing neutrino flavor oscillations to reveal resonance phenomena and generalize noninertial effects in astrophysical contexts.
This paper derives updated constraints on the amplitude of the primordial curvature power spectrum from primordial black hole abundances by systematically comparing Press-Schechter and peak theory formalisms, revealing that non-spherical collapse effects and the choice of statistical method significantly influence the inferred limits, particularly for broad power spectra.
This paper introduces a tensor-product regularized qubit Hamiltonian that interpolates between Rokhsar-Kivelson dimer models and the -flux toric code, revealing a phase diagram with deconfined topological liquids and identifying a deconfined multicritical point where three distinct quantum phase transitions meet.
This paper explores the astrophysical implications of string-inspired multi-scalar-tensor theories by numerically solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equations to demonstrate how a screening mechanism can suppress the coupling of Brans-Dicke dilatons to macroscopic objects like neutron stars.
This paper investigates the Dirac operator on a finite warped cylinder with a gauge field by characterizing the APS boundary spectrum, demonstrating the vanishing of the APS index in the invertible constant-gauge case, and introducing a regularized self-adjoint boundary condition that ensures continuity across spectral crossings to enable a consistent spectral flow analysis within the Maslov framework.
This paper derives an explicit one-loop off-shell effective action for interacting gravitational and matter fields in a general background gauge, confirming the DeWitt-Kallosh theorem's prediction of gauge-independent on-shell results and using this framework to demonstrate the theory's non-renormalizability.
This paper presents a new method for computing massless bosonic three-loop vacuum sum-integrals by generalizing tensor reduction via dimensionality shifts to finite temperature, thereby enabling the final evaluation of the NNLO Debye screening mass in hot QCD.
This paper derives a holographic formulation of triplet superconductivity in a compressible quantum critical metal by mapping the pairing problem from a large- Yukawa-SYK model onto a scalar field theory in an emergent AdS spacetime, where the superconducting instability corresponds to a Breitenlohner-Freedman instability equivalent to the linearized Eliashberg equations.