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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 proposes a novel mechanism for impurity screening in (1+1)d quantum critical systems by interpreting impurities as edge modes of symmetry-protected topological states, demonstrating that topological defect lines can screen impurities and generate exotic boundary conditions, a prediction confirmed through numerical analysis of a spin-1 chain with spin-1/2 impurities.
This paper demonstrates that Affleck-Dine baryogenesis can be realized with low-energy, non-supersymmetric physics involving a light scalar field, which produces detectable gravitational waves in the LIGO frequency range, thereby establishing a new complementarity between gravitational wave astronomy and particle physics experiments.
Through fully general-relativistic hydrodynamics simulations of binary neutron star mergers, this study finds that post-merger massive neutron stars are convectively stable due to outward increases in entropy and angular momentum enhanced by rotation, exhibit no observable inertial modes, and display an one-armed mode whose growth may be numerically induced by linear momentum conservation violations.
This paper investigates the Lee-Wick-Chern-Simons pseudo-quantum electrodynamics in 2+1 dimensions, demonstrating that the model is a gauge-invariant theory with massive excitations that naturally regulates ultraviolet divergences in one-loop quantum corrections while preserving unitarity and causality.
This paper reformulates Simon's entanglement criterion using the partner formula to demonstrate that entanglement harvesting from a quantum field is prohibited under specific conditions, revealing that Hawking radiation, analogous to the Unruh effect, lacks quantum correlations between its emitted real particles.
This paper revisits the quantization of gauge field theories by proposing a "sandwich quantization scheme" where constraints are imposed as vanishing matrix elements between physical states, revealing new solutions and offering fresh insights into the physical Hilbert space of gauged systems.
This paper investigates determinantal representations of polytope adjoint hypersurfaces, establishing that such representations exist for all polygons and specific three-dimensional polytopes (including smooth ones and the 3D ABHY associahedron) while demonstrating that they generally fail to exist for dimensions four and higher due to the typical singularity of these hypersurfaces.
This paper investigates a regime of resonant inflation where small, rapid potential oscillations shift observable signatures from the power spectrum to higher-order -point correlation functions (), which exhibit thousands of oscillations per decade in momentum space.
This paper proposes the General Standard Model (GSM), a unified framework within Gravitational Quantum Field Theory that extends the Standard Model's gauge symmetry to incorporate all fundamental interactions and novel forces, thereby offering a comprehensive explanation for particle physics, cosmology, and the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
This paper investigates the role of framing in 1/24 BPS Wilson loops within ABJ(M) theory, demonstrating how framing influences expectation values and correlation functions, establishing a novel link between scale invariance, superconformal invariance, and cohomological anomalies, and proposing a holographic interpretation of framing as a coupling to the background B-field in the dual string theory.