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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 essay proposes a generalized Landau paradigm for quantum phases and transitions that extends the traditional framework by characterizing "beyond Landau" phenomena through the breaking of generalized symmetries, often induced via generalized gauging and topological holography.
This paper demonstrates that double-gauging matrix models with global symmetries—specifically reducing bosonic models to $SO(3)$ and projecting super Yang-Mills BMN subsectors onto singlets—significantly simplifies the analysis of non-graviton spectra and black hole microstates by eliminating graviton operators while preserving essential structural features.
This paper investigates holographic entanglement negativity in a backreacted AdS black hole geometry sourced by a string cloud, demonstrating that the backreaction enhances distillable quantum correlations and provides a sharper diagnostic of mixed-state entanglement compared to holographic entanglement entropy and mutual information.
This paper demonstrates that a specific quantum gravity framework establishes a duality between point particles and massive scalar fields, successfully reproduces black hole entropy consistent with effective field theory, and predicts quantum corrections to Hawking radiation that yield a Page-like curve through the direct encoding and leakage of interior information via the horizon.
The authors propose and analyze a disorder-free, $SU(2)$-invariant quantum mechanical model of interacting fermions that replicates the low-energy physics of the supersymmetric SYK model through a melonic expansion, exhibits solvable limits, and approximates a two-dimensional CFT near maximal angular momentum states.
This paper demonstrates how to compute string-loop amplitudes in Calabi-Yau orientifolds using a patch-by-patch string field theory description, specifically calculating the one-loop D1-instanton partition function in type IIB theory and showing that unphysical divergences from naive PCO choices are resolved through vertical integration.
This paper demonstrates that Starobinsky's stochastic formalism, when applied to a specific component of the 1-loop effective potential, successfully captures the first sub-leading logarithms in scalar potential models on de Sitter space, a result verified at the 2-loop level for a massless, minimally coupled scalar with quartic self-interaction.
This paper demonstrates that the supersymmetric expansion algorithm can efficiently derive Rayleigh-Schrödinger perturbation theory results for energy and eigenstate corrections without summing over intermediate states, instead expressing them as integrals weighted by the probability densities of edge states.
Using a holographic heavy quark model, this paper investigates how external magnetic fields and spatial anisotropy affect the effective potential, string tension, and energy loss of heavy quarks in hot dense QGP, revealing magnetic catalysis in phase transitions and anisotropy-dependent deviations from the standard scaling of string tension.
This paper unifies the Cartan and Weil models of equivariant cohomology with BRST quantization to establish a transparent analytic proof of the Atiyah--Bott--Berline--Vergne localization formula, demonstrating how gauge-fixing procedures naturally lead to equivariant Witten deformation and illustrating the framework through explicit computations on complex projective spaces.