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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.
At Gist.Science, we monitor the arXiv repository to ensure you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving discipline. For every new preprint uploaded to arXiv under this category, our team generates both accessible plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries, making cutting-edge research understandable regardless of your background.
Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper investigates the quantum-corrected thermodynamics of Reissner-Nordström AdS black holes using a reduced gravitational path integral with off-shell geometries, revealing that these corrections modify the phase diagram by shrinking first-order transition regions, introducing zero-order transitions, and recovering traditional thermodynamics in the semi-classical limit.
This paper introduces the Minimum Clique-optimised quantum Algorithm (MCA), a graph theory-based automated quantum method that efficiently queries causal configurations in multiloop Feynman diagrams by mapping propagators to qubits and optimizing circuit depth and area through the Minimum Clique Partition problem.
This paper develops a Fermi-liquid framework to derive leading-order expressions for shear and bulk viscosities in cold, dense nucleon matter, demonstrating that the bulk-to-shear viscosity ratio scales as in the degenerate regime and remains robust against quasiparticle mass corrections when coupled with a Walecka-type equation of state.
This paper demonstrates that an scalar field theory non-minimally coupled to gravity achieves a UV-complete, asymptotically safe description with a flat potential in the ultraviolet, where gravitational interactions drive the quartic coupling to zero and constrain the infrared parameters of the spontaneously broken phase.
This study investigates the production mechanisms of and in scattering using an effective Lagrangian approach with Regge trajectories, revealing distinct dominant exchange contributions for each resonance and suggesting that possesses an exotic structure while aligns with a conventional three-quark configuration, thereby providing a theoretical basis for future high-precision experimental measurements.
This whitepaper proposes the Hyperon-Nucleon Spectrometer (H-NS) at the High-Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF) to systematically investigate the unresolved polarization puzzle through high-precision measurements of hyperon and proton spin observables across a wide range of collision energies and systems.
This paper proposes a holographic model of Josephson transport in a Reissner–Nordstrom-AdS black brane background where a spatially inhomogeneous chemical potential creates a weak link, demonstrating that the near-extremal throat geometry controls the critical current and phase stiffness through the infrared scaling dimension of the charged scalar, thereby distinguishing genuine near-extremal effects from standard proximity suppression.
This paper presents lecture notes from the Nordita Winter School 2024 that provide an advanced introduction to primordial inflation theory, covering both linear and non-linear perturbation theory within slow-roll and quasi-de Sitter spacetimes.
This paper computes disk and annulus amplitudes for the cosmological constant operator in type 0A and 0B minimal superstring theories with (1,1) ZZ instanton boundary conditions, resolving divergences via open-closed string field theory to demonstrate that the results precisely match DDK-KPZ scaling expectations, thereby establishing a framework for subleading-order calculations in ten-dimensional type IIB superstrings.
This paper investigates one-point functions of charged operators in the presence of monodromy defects by computing results in free theories, analyzing holographic duals in SYM via WKB methods to resolve anchored saddles through boundary layer effects, and determining the smooth monodromy dependence of composite operators using heat kernel techniques.