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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 demonstrates that in a Lorentz symmetry-breaking extension of QED with dimension-5 operators, the radiative generation of Carroll-Field-Jackiw terms remains ambiguous at the one-loop level because the associated surface terms cannot be uniquely determined even by imposing the Ward-Takahashi identity.
This study employs open quantum system methods and Arnoldi iterations to analyze Krylov complexity and entropy in the early universe, revealing that while non-trivial sound speed yields similar complexity trends to the standard case, it induces distinct entropy evolution and maximally chaotic behavior characterized by specific Lanczos coefficients.
This paper constructs a holographic toy model to investigate third-order photonic exceptional points in coupled microrings with gain and loss, analyzing their spectral properties, phase rigidity, and connections to QCD's -vacuum and entanglement entropy.
This paper constructs AdS/dS asymptotic solutions in 3d gauged supergravity with a periodic potential, interpreting them as holographic deformations of 2d CFTs by irrelevant operators, while analyzing their finite-temperature singular black string geometries and demonstrating the factorization of the operator along the holographic RG flow.
This paper employs the functional renormalisation group to investigate nonlocal scalar-field models with long-range interactions, revealing how nonlocality alters infrared fixed-point structures, induces symmetry breaking, and confirms Sak's predictions for critical exponents across various interaction ranges.
Using a manifestly real Lagrangian and Pauli-Villars regularization, this paper demonstrates that all parity-odd terms in the Weyl anomaly for chiral fermions cancel out in the integrand, resulting in a purely parity-even anomaly.
This paper proposes local approximations of the global Minkowski Hamiltonian in quantum field theory by expressing the finite-volume conformal field theory Hamiltonian in terms of the modular Hamiltonian of a local ball-shaped region, utilizing operator-algebraic nuclearity and characteristic functions of algebra inclusions to construct these regulators.
The authors defend the conclusions of their original article (arXiv:2412.12282) against criticisms raised in a subsequent comment (arXiv:2502.15817v2) regarding QCD factorization with multihadron fragmentation functions.
Versor is a novel sequence architecture that leverages Conformal Geometric Algebra and geometric transformations to achieve superior performance, interpretability, and efficiency across diverse tasks while outperforming Transformers and geometric baselines with significantly fewer parameters and robust out-of-distribution generalization.
This paper proposes a boundary-scattering method to detect higher Berry phases in one-dimensional gapped free-fermion systems by relating higher Berry invariants to the higher winding number of the boundary reflection matrix, offering a robust and experimentally accessible probe for parametrized topological phases.