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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.

Tuning A Rotating Black Hole Spectrum with Dark Matter Halo: Quasibound States, Scalar Cloud, Black Hole Bomb and Superradiant Scattering

This paper investigates how a rotating black hole embedded in a Dehnen dark matter halo exhibits modified quasibound state spectra and superradiant scattering, demonstrating that the halo's density and profile parameters act as an environmental tuner that systematically shifts binding energies, alters instability thresholds, and narrows the superradiant amplification window.

David Senjaya2026-06-10⚛️ gr-qc

Hawking--Page Universality, Thermodynamic Dipoles and Categorical Defects

This paper reinterprets the Hawking--Page transition through a thermodynamic vector field framework to derive universal ratios and barriers across various black hole geometries, while proposing a novel formulation involving categorical or non-invertible symmetry defects.

Emilio Torrente-Lujan2026-06-10⚛️ hep-th

Chiral Plasma under Strong Magnetic Fields: A Holographic Analysis of Transport Phenomena

This paper employs holographic duality within a Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory to derive all-order gradient constitutive relations for chiral plasma under strong magnetic fields, utilizing thirteen transport coefficients to analyze anomaly-induced phenomena like negative magnetoresistance and chiral magnetic waves beyond the hydrodynamic limit.

Michael Lublinsky, Hadas Tzarfati2026-06-10⚛️ hep-th

Pair creation amplitudes for a real scalar field coupled to a time-dependent surface in d+1 dimensions

This paper investigates the pair creation of a real scalar field induced by a time-dependent deforming surface with Dirichlet-like boundary conditions in $d+1$ dimensions, deriving the angular dependence of the emission rate up to fourth-order deformations and clarifying the relationship between exclusive probabilities and the imaginary part of the effective action when two-pair channels open.

C. D. Fosco, B. C. Guntsche2026-06-10⚛️ hep-th

Spacetime from Operator Algebras

This paper proposes a framework where spacetime geometry and the full non-linear Einstein equations emerge from the algebra of quantized matter fields in the vanishing Newton's constant limit, while also demonstrating how non-perturbative corrections and ensemble averaging of these operator algebras can model the discrete spectrum of holographic theories and reproduce black hole entropy with logarithmic corrections.

Vyshnav Mohan, Larus Thorlacius2026-06-10⚛️ hep-th

Revealing the topology of quantum states via Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobabilities

This paper proposes a method to discriminate between different topological classes of many-body quantum states by expressing strange correlators as Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobabilities, thereby establishing a quantum topology witness achievable through interferometric protocols involving sudden quench transformations.

Stefano Gherardini, Luca Lepori2026-06-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

A Friendly Phantom: Late-time AdS-to-dS transition and cosmological tensions

This paper introduces Ph- $\Lambda_{\rm s}$ CDM, a General Relativity model utilizing a phantom scalar with a wrong-sign kinetic term to drive a smooth late-time transition from anti-de Sitter to de Sitter space, thereby offering a controlled mechanism to resolve cosmological tensions without resulting in a Big Rip.

Özgür Akarsu, Leandros Perivolaropoulos, A. Emrah Yükselci, Alexander Zhuk2026-06-10⚛️ gr-qc

Supersymmetry of the static Reissner-Nordström black hole in Bertotti-Robinson ( $\mathrm{AdS}_2 \times \mathbb{S}^2$ )

This paper investigates the supersymmetry of charged and accelerating black holes within an $N=2$ , $D=4$ supergravity framework on a Bertotti-Robinson background by deriving Killing spinors, demonstrating BPS saturation to determine the black hole's mass and thermodynamics, and generalizing the extremal solution to include a cosmological constant.

Andrea Di Pinto, Adriano Viganò2026-06-10⚛️ hep-th

The Yang-Baxter Equation for the Chiral Potts Model and Integrable Parafermions

This paper constructs a new three-spectral-parameter Yang-Baxter equation for the chiral Potts model by extending the unification of solvable edge and vertex models, thereby generalizing Onsager's star-triangle relation to account for the higher-genus curve structure and the specific interaction terms of $Z_N$ symmetric systems.

Zhao Zhang2026-06-10🔢 math-ph

Stochastic Inflation in General Relativity

This paper presents a formulation of stochastic inflation in full general relativity that extends beyond slow-roll and separate universe approximations by deriving gauge-invariant Langevin source terms for both scalar and tensor degrees of freedom, enabling their application in 3+1 numerical relativity simulations via the ADM and BSSN formalisms.

Yoann L. Launay, Gerasimos I. Rigopoulos, E. P. S. Shellard2026-06-09🔭 astro-ph

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