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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 introduces a self-supervised, transformer-based approach that generates oracle trajectories by scrambling and unscrambling mathematical expressions to achieve near-perfect symbolic simplification in high-energy physics tasks, significantly outperforming prior reinforcement learning and regression methods.
This paper establishes rigorous integrability conditions for one-dimensional quantum systems to be classified as free or interacting fermions by defining free fermions through the simultaneous satisfaction of the Yang-Baxter equation and Shastry's decorated star-triangle relation, and provides a procedure to construct integrable interacting models, such as the Hubbard and XY models, via deformations of these free fermionic -matrices.
This paper investigates "holes" in the effective cones of Calabi-Yau threefolds—divisor classes that are theoretically effective yet lack global sections—by providing examples, establishing existence conditions, characterizing their semigroup structure within toric hypersurfaces, and deriving moduli-dependent volume bounds.
This paper analyzes the microcanonical phase diagram of the D1-D5 CFT dual to type II string theory on , mapping the transitions between uniform and localized black hole phases and identifying a novel lattice phase of black holes that dominates at high energies when the torus is significantly larger than the AdS radius.
This paper introduces deterministic unitary protocols that approximate imaginary-time evolution for ground-state preparation using multi-copy registers and controlled-SWAP operations, analyzing trade-offs between circuit depth and width in tree versus "hedge" architectures while demonstrating the potential of mid-circuit post-selection and platform-specific implementations.
This paper utilizes the Euclidean Gravity approach to demonstrate that spatially varying near-horizon temperature fluctuations in a Schwarzschild Black Hole are intrinsically linked to near-horizon supertranslations, allowing the derivation of temperature-dependent corrections to the free energy and a microscopic partition function that describe low-energy horizon physics as a sum over these supertranslations.
This paper establishes a systematic framework using stochastic path-integral formalism to quantify time irreversibility and entropy production in non-Hermitian Model A field theories, demonstrating that the local entropy production rate is determined by the anti-Hermitian component of the dynamics and localizes at interfaces in non-uniform states.
This paper extends the study of booklet wormholes as the holographic dual of the GHZ state by demonstrating that their symmetry necessitates special bulk Killing vectors and unprecedented quantum non-local junction conditions, while also proposing a mechanism to render them traversable through boundary deformations that distribute information via entanglement.
This paper demonstrates that autoparallel curves associated with torsion-free, non-metric-compatible affine connections can be derived from a variational principle by explicitly constructing an action functional through the systematic solution of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations and the associated Helmholtz conditions.
This paper investigates the quantum stability of a timelike topological wormhole by computing the one-loop backreaction of a massive scalar field, finding that depending on finite counterterms, quantum effects can either stabilize or destabilize the structure while preserving its traversability.