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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 proposes a new one-parameter supersymmetry index for the D1-D5 CFT on using a Schur-Weyl duality formulation, which successfully matches supergravity results below the black-hole threshold and reveals previously invisible microstate sectors above it, offering finer-grained insights than the standard modified elliptic genus.
This study numerically demonstrates that spacetime-localized, periodically recurring responses in a critical transverse-field Ising chain—reminiscent of holographic bulk dynamics—emerge exclusively from perturbations corresponding to local density fields in the continuum limit and remain robust against temporal discretization, thereby clarifying the specific operator requirements for observing such phenomena in quantum simulations.
This paper establishes a physical and topological correspondence between dynamical stabilizer codes and non-invertible symmetries in 4+1-dimensional 2-form gauge theories, mapping measurement sequences to symmetry fusions and error detectors to endable surface operators to provide a unified framework for understanding fault tolerance and recovering spacetime stabilizer codes.
The paper introduces FeynGrav 4.0, an updated package that enhances the study of gravity models by implementing a sophisticated BRST formalism for finite ghost-graviton interactions, a higher derivative gauge fixing term for quadratic gravity, and Feynman rules for Cheung-Remmen variables to achieve a polynomial action with a finite rule set.
Using lattice Yang-Mills simulations, the paper demonstrates that a test quark near a reflective chromometallic boundary in the QCD confinement phase forms a partially confined "quarkiton" state bound by an attractive Cornell-type potential with reduced string tension, analogous to surface excitons in condensed matter physics.
This paper demonstrates that Hawking radiation, including its thermal spectrum and horizon dependence in a collapse metric, emerges from the double copy of particle production in a background gauge field that lacks a global horizon, thereby unifying classical and quantum double copy prescriptions for black hole spacetimes through worldline and amplitude methods.
This paper investigates -dimensional charged black hole solutions and gravitational wave polarizations within a specific M-subset of Einstein-aether theory, revealing a unique aether charge constraint, exact thermodynamic laws, and distinct wave propagation characteristics where spin-2 and spin-1 modes travel at unit speed while the longitudinal mode exhibits linear time dependence rather than behaving as a spin-0 mode.
This paper proposes an effective field theory Lagrangian procedure for gauging finite 0-form symmetries in untwisted Dijkgraaf-Witten theories using higher gauging condensation defects, demonstrating its validity through the construction of effective actions for Heisenberg gauge groups over that reproduce expected braiding and fusion data while clarifying connections to higher group symmetries.
This paper investigates holographic timelike entanglement entropy and subregion complexity in scalar-deformed thermal CFTs dual to hairy black holes, demonstrating that the scalar deformation breaks the imaginary component invariance of HTEE observed in pure AdS, reveals the failure of analytic continuation to reproduce these results, and establishes that timelike subregion complexity remains real-valued with its UV-finite term in BTZ geometry arising entirely from the black hole interior.
This paper models the string axiverse as a system of coupled axions with hierarchical masses to demonstrate that collective effects generally suppress the field ranges and detection prospects of most axions, thereby narrowing the most promising observational targets to the QCD axion, heavy axion subcomponents, and potentially light axions with independent Standard Model interactions.