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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 reviews how recent advancements in Large Momentum Effective Theory (LaMET), including improved renormalization schemes, higher-order matching kernels, and novel lattice operators, are enhancing the precision and reliability of first-principles lattice QCD calculations for proton parton distributions.
This paper demonstrates that the semiclassical Einstein equations naturally emerge from the proportionality between quantum relative entropy and horizon area variations, thereby generalizing Jacobson's thermodynamic derivation by replacing classical entropy with well-defined quantum information measures.
This paper establishes a correspondence between the gravitational phase space at null infinity and the subleading phase space around finite-distance null hypersurfaces using the Newman-Penrose formalism, thereby identifying celestial symmetries, defining covariant radiation, and revealing an infinite tower of conserved charges relevant to observers near black hole or cosmological horizons.
This paper provides a conceptual and practical introduction to Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics tailored for experimentalists, focusing on core ideas, terminology, and challenges relevant to experimental design and interpretation rather than offering a comprehensive theoretical review.
Challenging previous conclusions that curvature enhances entanglement, this paper demonstrates that while increasing curvature in de Sitter spacetime strengthens correlations between local field modes, it paradoxically decreases their entanglement, revealing a qualitative alteration of the vacuum's entanglement structure by the cosmological constant.
This paper proposes a cohomological framework for analyzing perturbative anomalies in quantum mechanics, demonstrating that system perturbations and symmetry anomalies correspond to the first and second Chevalley-Eilenberg cohomology groups, respectively, of the underlying Abelian Lie algebra acting on the Hilbert space.
This paper investigates the extended thermodynamics of charged Hayward-AdS black holes surrounded by a cloud of strings and perfect fluid dark matter, demonstrating that these models exhibit van der Waals-like phase transitions, distinct Joule-Thomson expansion characteristics, and holographic heat engine efficiencies that are respectively enhanced by the cloud of strings and diminished by perfect fluid dark matter.
This paper analytically investigates an Unruh-DeWitt detector acting as a relativistic quantum battery in Rindler spacetime by employing the quantum regression theorem to derive its master equation, solve for single- and two-time correlation functions, and demonstrate how acceleration enhances spontaneous emission dissipation and shapes the emission spectrum into a Lorentzian profile.
This paper derives exact evolution equations for spin potentials in perfect-fluid spin hydrodynamics on Grozdanov's hyperbolic () expanding background, revealing distinct dynamical features such as stronger spin localization and oscillatory azimuthal decay that differentiate it from the well-known Gubser flow.
This paper demonstrates that by incorporating gravitational constraints and a boundary charge into the algebra of observables on a dynamical black hole horizon, one can construct a Type- von Neumann factor whose entropy satisfies a first law of thermodynamics and is directly related to the Hollands-Wald-Zhang entropy of perturbed black holes via horizon and null infinity fluxes.