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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.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper investigates how noncommutative twist deformations of bulk fields affect phase transition parameters, such as the critical magnetic field and condensate, in holographic models of three- and four-dimensional superfluids subjected to external magnetic fields.
This paper demonstrates that coupling fermions to an oscillating sine-Gordon breather background induces particle production and a continuous outward flux, causing initially bound fermionic states to eventually disperse to spatial infinity rather than remaining localized.
This paper introduces a new four-dimensional rotating axionic AdS black hole solution coupled to a scalar field, derives its thermodynamic properties via the Euclidean procedure to verify the first law, and highlights its potential as a framework for studying holographic superconductors.
This paper demonstrates that bulk local states of massive scalar excitations in three-dimensional flat spacetime can be reconstructed using states from two-dimensional Carrollian conformal field theories, successfully reproducing the bulk spectrum and propagator while validating the approach through a novel flat limit derived from AdS and dS spacetimes.
Using a chiral spin-chain simulator, the study demonstrates that while free quantum black hole models exhibit no genuine thermalization, Hawking radiation appears thermal only when observed through horizon bipartitions due to an apparent Fermi-Dirac distribution, with true thermal behavior emerging solely from interactions deep within the black hole interior.
This paper demonstrates that K-point limits in Type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications correspond to weakly coupled heterotic strings on K3 times a torus with spacetime-filling NS5-branes, thereby confirming the Distance and Emergent String Conjectures by identifying the predicted light towers as excitations of this specific non-perturbative background.
This paper introduces a general method based on the transverse intersection of submanifolds in phase space to prove the non-degeneracy of the Hessian in spinfoam vertex amplitudes with a cosmological constant, thereby validating the stationary phase approximation for non-degenerate geometric 4-simplices in de Sitter or anti-de Sitter space and confirming the model's connection to semiclassical gravity without dominant exceptional contributions.
This paper analyzes short-time dynamics in the 2D Blume-Capel model, confirming critical initial slip exponents at both critical and tricritical points that align with theoretical scaling relations and establishing the validity of short-time dynamics in phase-ordering kinetics after a quench into the ordered phase.
This paper proposes that TeV-scale quasi-Dirac fermions, arising from lepton-symmetry violations in unified theories, simultaneously generate small radiative neutrino masses and provide a stable dark matter candidate, with their tiny mass splitting ensuring consistency with experimental constraints on dark matter detection and charged lepton flavor violation.
This paper constructs a manifestly covariant, coordinate-free plane-wave representation for scalar two-point functions in -dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime using globally defined holomorphic plane waves, yielding integral representations that reproduce standard Legendre function solutions and clarify the relationship between Euclidean and Lorentzian AdS quantum field theories through a Kallen-Lehmann diagonalization in Poincaré coordinates.