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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 proposes that assuming a thermal initial state for gauge fields during inflation, rather than the standard vacuum, introduces a dissipative boost that enhances primordial magnetic fields by up to , suggesting that embedding this mechanism in a warm inflation framework offers a promising path to inflationary magnetogenesis without requiring non-minimal couplings or modified electrodynamics.
This paper computes the graviton-mediated two-to-two scattering amplitude and cross-section for scalar particles within asymptotically safe quantum gravity by determining the full momentum dependence of the scalar-graviton vertex via the functional renormalization group, demonstrating that the results recover General Relativity at low energies while preserving unitarity in the ultraviolet regime.
This paper investigates entanglement in two-dimensional Yang-Mills theory, revealing that while standard Euclidean path integral states become separable at infinite volume, specific configurations involving Wilson lines and loops maintain finite entanglement through projectors onto non-trivial vacuum sectors, offering new insights into large-volume confinement transitions.
By placing conformal field theories on pp-wave backgrounds to exploit Heisenberg-group symmetries and locality, this paper derives strong constraints on the asymptotic spectrum of large-spin operators and establishes a new unitarity bound in dimensions based on causality.
Using the functional renormalization group within the quark-meson model, this study demonstrates that the critical scaling region of the chiral phase transition systematically shrinks as chemical potential increases, with consistent results observed across both local potential approximations.
This paper develops a universal effective field theory for the low-energy surface oscillations of self-bound superfluid droplets, deriving the normal-mode eigenfrequencies, identifying a critical instability for the breathing mode, and quantizing the resulting ripplons to describe multi-ripplon states in systems like Bose mixtures.
This paper critically examines a recent analysis claiming evidence for a QCD critical end point via finite-size scaling of net-proton cumulants, highlighting methodological issues regarding acceptance windows, multiplicity scaling, and thermodynamic fields that must be addressed for a consistent interpretation.
This paper demonstrates that within Einstein gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics and a phantom scalar field, the Simpson-Visser regular black hole possesses a vanishing thermodynamic mass due to boundary contributions, yet remains thermodynamically less favorable than its singular counterpart when compared under identical thermal and magnetic conditions.
This paper introduces , a high-performance Go-based tool for rapidly evaluating conformal blocks in odd spacetime dimensions via recursive relations, demonstrating significant speed improvements over existing packages and successfully applying the method to optimize the mixed-correlator bootstrap of the 3D Ising model and vector models.
This paper establishes the equivalence between path integral and stochastic quantizations for generic scalar Euclidean quantum field theories by providing two novel proofs based on Taylor interpolations indexed by forests: one operating at the level of individual Feynman expansion terms and the other directly at the path integral level without requiring a full perturbative expansion.