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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 utilizes an effective theory of dynamic critical phenomena to demonstrate that the photon emission rate near the QCD critical point diverges with the correlation length and follows a universal spectrum, reflecting the nonequilibrium properties of the near-critical liquid.
This paper investigates the propagation features of Lorentz-violating electrodynamics within the CPT-even photon sector of the Standard Model Extension, deriving a modified quartic dispersion relation and analyzing the resulting anisotropic light propagation, birefringence, and causal structures for timelike, lightlike, and spacelike vector configurations.
This paper reformulates hyperbolic monopole data in terms of real matrices satisfying quartic equations linked to su(2) representations, enabling the recovery of known examples and the construction of new solutions—such as a charge 4 monopole with square symmetry—by adapting Toda reductions of Nahm's equation to the hyperbolic setting.
This paper develops a semiclassical technique to compute the form factors of composite branch-point twist operators in the 1+1 dimensional quantum sinh-Gordon model on multi-sheeted Riemann surfaces, addressing the challenge of identifying exact bootstrap solutions with specific local fields to facilitate the calculation of entanglement entropies.
This paper demonstrates that topological quantum neural networks (TQNNs) enable universal quantum computation through topological models and establish a formal correspondence with amplituhedra, thereby revealing amplituhedra as geometric representations of underlying topological structures for generic quantum processes.
This paper improves thermal bootstrapping for large- matrix models by employing the Quantum Information Conic Solver to derive logarithmic-relaxation-free energy bounds, achieving high-precision estimates for long string excitation energies and coupling coefficients in the one-matrix anharmonic oscillator.
This paper demonstrates that Ladder symmetry is both a necessary and sufficient condition for the vanishing of static tidal Love numbers in static, spherically symmetric, and rotating black holes within the Konoplya-Rezzolla-Zhidenko parametrization, as any deviation from this symmetry inevitably results in non-zero tidal responses.
This paper investigates 3d Chern--Simons matter theories arising from the R-twisted -reduction of Argyres--Douglas theories, identifying specific series with monopole superpotentials that exhibit infrared supersymmetry enhancement and deriving a novel Nahm sum formula for the minimal model vacuum character.
This paper utilizes the holographic product formula to derive the general form of holographic spectral functions in the near-extremal hydrodynamic regime, demonstrating that low-temperature gapless modes and IR conformal behavior factorize in the extremal limit and often in the near-extremal regime, a finding validated through numerical results and applied to improve low-energy spectral descriptions.
This paper introduces the Krylov distribution, a novel static diagnostic that characterizes the organization of inverse-energy response within the dynamically accessible Krylov subspace, revealing universal scaling regimes across spectral supports and connecting fidelity susceptibility to Krylov-resolved resolvent amplitudes.