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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 generalizes the notion of blobbed topological recursion to settings with non-topological expansions and proves that its differentials satisfy KP integrability when the input blobs are KP-integrable, thereby unifying and providing a new proof for the previously conjectured integrability of non-perturbative differentials.
This paper utilizes the symbolic tool Cadabra to explicitly derive and analyze the Hamiltonian equations of motion for quadratic gravity, including their linearized longitudinal-transverse decomposition, comparison with covariant field equations, and application to homogeneous and isotropic configurations.
This paper proposes an AdS/NCFT duality where networks are holographically described by branched spacetimes with "Net-branes," demonstrating how junction conditions enforce energy conservation, deriving gravitational spectra and entanglement properties, and linking network complexity to bulk geodesics.
This paper demonstrates that specific multipartite entanglement quantities, constructed from strong subadditivity, weak monotonicity, and conformal properties, serve as highly efficient and localized indicators for identifying critical points in 1+1D quantum systems, with their detection capabilities further enhanced by a mutual information-based lower bound and a filtering process.
This paper establishes universal features of defect correlation functions in supersymmetric defect CFTs by deriving constraints from strong-coupling perturbations of the displacement supermultiplet, confirming these results across various theories including SYM and ABJM, and applying this universality to extract conformal data for specific BPS Wilson lines.
This paper demonstrates that environmental decoherence during inflation induces a "cosmic lockdown" via the quantum Zeno effect, which suppresses quantum tunneling and stabilizes false-vacuum occupation for light scalar fields by locking them into stochastically selected local minima.
This paper investigates optical phenomena in modified Maxwell (ModMax) electrodynamics under uniform electromagnetic backgrounds, deriving refractive indices, birefringence, Goos-Hänchen shifts, and complex Kerr rotation signatures to demonstrate how the theory's conformal parameter and field ratios govern vacuum-induced optical effects.
This paper proposes a quantum-gravitational framework based on Schwarzian theory and ensemble averaging to resolve the cosmological constant problem by deriving the observed dark energy density and equation of state from the ensemble average of time-reparametrization modes.
This paper utilizes boundary conformal field theory methods to demonstrate that pseudo entropy between distinct boundary states undergoes a phase transition dependent on the conformal weight of the boundary condition changing operators, a result that is confirmed to match holographic AdS calculations.
This paper establishes a universal relation between the energy-momentum tensor two-point function coefficient and the Weyl anomaly coefficient in generic even-dimensional conformal field theories, deriving the result through both holographic methods utilizing a Chern-Gauss-Bonnet formula and a genuine CFT approach based on renormalization group running.