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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 a method to derive the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of extremal black holes by calculating the entanglement entropy of disconnected one-dimensional conformal quantum mechanics systems, thereby demonstrating that horizon entropy fundamentally originates from quantum entanglement.
This paper identifies exact magnetic monopole solutions in spontaneously broken $SU(2)$ gauge theories within the BPS limit that possess a new internal degree of freedom, which modulates the monopole's energy density profile while preserving its total mass.
This paper proposes a novel quasi-topological gravity model that unifies cosmological and black hole scenarios by replacing spacetime singularities with a "big bounce" and a "black bounce," respectively, thereby reproducing key results from loop quantum cosmology and the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model within a single, manifestly covariant framework.
This paper proposes a minimal framework utilizing the discrete gauge symmetry , motivated by the Standard Model's internal structure, to naturally resolve the axion quality problem while simultaneously explaining neutrino masses, baryon asymmetry, and dark matter.
This paper proposes constructing local gauge invariant operators on isometry-breaking backgrounds via the Stückelberg mechanism—effectively introducing physical clocks and rods—but argues that suppressing the resulting spacetime fluctuations to reliably define operators in localized regions (such as black hole islands) requires strong isometry breaking, potentially achieved through transitions to higher-dimensional black holes.
This paper demonstrates that Newtonian gravity can generate quantum entanglement between mesoscopic bodies only when the gravitational tidal field is quantized (as in the mini-superspace framework), whereas models treating the field as classical (semiclassical and stochastic gravity) fail to produce such entanglement.
This study utilizes the HYDJET++ model to demonstrate that the high degree of azimuthal alignment observed in cosmic-ray experiments is also present at the level of energetic particle clusters, highlighting how clustering procedures and momentum conservation jointly shape these correlations in high-multiplicity heavy-ion collisions.
This paper introduces minimal models, including the Arithmetic Ising Model and specific gas models, to demonstrate how entropic effects can drive generic high-energy states into ordered phases, resulting in spontaneous symmetry breaking at arbitrarily high temperatures.
This paper investigates holographic shear correlators in a strongly-coupled 3D theory at low temperatures, demonstrating that quantum-gravitational corrections from nearly-gapless Schwarzian modes increase shear viscosity and cause the ratio to dip below the semiclassical bound at intermediate temperatures before diverging at very low temperatures.
This paper investigates a diverse spectrum of Euclidean gravitational saddles, including wormholes and oscillatory solutions, within Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell models to identify phase transitions, demonstrate how potential flat directions are stabilized, and estimate the probabilities of various cosmological outcomes by analytically continuing these backgrounds to Lorentzian FLRW universes.