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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 employs an effective field theory approach to quantify how multiple light axions contribute to the relativistic degrees of freedom (), revealing that their detectability by current and future cosmic microwave background surveys depends sensitively on the flavor structure of their interactions with Standard Model fermions.
By applying the BK equation to model gluon occupancy and entropy, this study demonstrates that while protons remain below the unitarity bound, heavy nuclei reach the "saturon" limit at small , identifying nuclei as the optimal environment for observing this high-occupancy QCD phenomenon.
This paper analyzes entanglement generation in the Schwinger effect for scalar and spinor QED, revealing that while thermal fluctuations suppress bosonic entanglement below a critical temperature, fermionic entanglement persists at finite temperatures and exhibits a non-monotonic dependence on the electric field with a distinct optimal strength.
This paper investigates the finite-temperature Casimir effect in -Minkowski space-time, demonstrating that non-commutativity enhances the attractive force while preserving thermodynamic consistency, and establishes an upper bound on the deformation parameter of m alongside conditions for experimental observability.
This paper introduces a symmetry-breaking protocol using unlearned biases to eliminate extraneous rotational degrees of freedom in transformer attention, a modification that simultaneously enhances the performance of memory-efficient optimizers and enables the interpretable amplification of semantically meaningful tokens.
This paper investigates stationary, non-axisymmetric black flower geometries in AdS gravity by constructing their solutions and demonstrating that the exact counting of their boundary microstates, mapped to relativistic free fermions via bosonization, precisely reproduces the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
This paper demonstrates that thermal precondensation, a phenomenon characterized by condensates forming only over finite length scales, occurs in gauge-fermion theories near the thermal chiral phase transition, becomes more pronounced with an increasing number of fermion flavors, and holds potential relevance for physics beyond the Standard Model.
This paper investigates the thermodynamic phase structure and topological charge of Hayward-AdS black holes, demonstrating that imposing a constraint to regularize the geometry not only preserves Van der Waals-type criticality but also induces a qualitative transformation in the thermodynamic configuration space, evidenced by a shift in topological charge from $-1$ to .
By applying the localization method to the BFSS matrix model under boundary conditions corresponding to graviton scattering, the authors exactly compute the partition function and demonstrate that it correctly reproduces the expected momentum dependence of the three-point amplitude in M-theory.
This paper extends a previously developed approach for calculating quantum corrections to the effective potential in arbitrary scalar field theories from the leading to the next-to-leading logarithmic approximation by constructing recurrence relations and renormalization group equations based on the Bogoliubov-Parasiuk-Hepp-Zimmerman procedure, a formalism applicable to both renormalizable and non-renormalizable models and verified against standard results.