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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 generalizes the covariant phase space formalism to semi-classical gravity by defining a semi-classical symplectic two-form as the sum of the gravitational symplectic form and the Berry curvature of the quantum matter state, demonstrating its slice independence and its duality to the Berry curvature in the boundary CFT within the AdS/CFT framework.
This paper demonstrates that the near-extremal vanishing horizon (EVH) geometries of AdS black holes reduce to lower-dimensional solutions conformally related to Einstein-Maxwell-Maxwell-dilaton gravity, thereby suggesting a pathway for applying higher-dimensional AdS/CFT techniques to the microscopic entropy counting of non-AdS black holes.
This paper proposes a holographic correspondence where the observed cosmic acceleration, traditionally attributed to a cosmological constant, is instead explained as an entropic effect arising from the thermodynamic properties of the boundary's quantum degrees of freedom, a model known as GREA that predicts distinct deviations from the standard CDM model in the growth of large-scale structures testable by upcoming surveys.
This paper presents a model-independent framework that uses cosmic chronometer measurements of the Hubble parameter to directly reconstruct the background effective field theory functions of dark energy, enabling the testing of various cosmological models and the constraint of specific theories like quintessence without assuming a predefined scenario.
This paper establishes a precise holographic correspondence for ball-shaped entanglement entropy in excited states by explicitly calculating CFT corrections via modular-flowed Witten diagrams and demonstrating their exact match with the quantum extremal surface formula, including backreaction-induced shape deformations of the entanglement wedge.
This paper utilizes holographic models of near-extremal AdS black holes to demonstrate that 2D quantum critical theories with strong translational symmetry breaking and zero average chemical potential exhibit enhanced conductivity, bad-metal electrical transport with non-Drude thermal behavior, and approximately linear-in-field magnetoresistance.
Through extensive time-domain numerical simulations of a Schwarzschild black hole in a cubic-in-curvature effective-field-theory extension of general relativity, this paper demonstrates that while the loss of isospectrality between polar and axial quasinormal modes complicates the identification of individual fundamental modes in gravitational waveforms, it can still provide evidence for non-general-relativistic physics.
This paper establishes a general framework for constructing -site chiral integrable matrix product states in the ABJM spin chain using reflection equations and fusion, while deriving exact overlap formulas for four-site states and investigating their chiral integrable subspaces numerically.
This paper investigates the emergence and detection of Hawking radiation in a quenched 1D chiral spin chain by mapping its dynamics to a curved spacetime Dirac fermion, revealing that while the radiation spectrum exhibits greybody-like deviations, a weakly coupled qubit detector can faithfully measure the Hawking temperature, whereas strong coupling obscures the thermal signature by thermalizing with the global environment.
This paper reviews recent STAR experiment results on net-proton multiplicity fluctuations from RHIC BES-II collisions to search for the QCD critical point by comparing fourth-order cumulant and factorial cumulant ratios with non-critical theoretical models while addressing initial volume fluctuations and outlining future research directions.