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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 introduces a quantum Monte Carlo approach for computing symmetry-resolved Rényi entropies in large-scale interacting systems by measuring disorder operators on replica manifolds, successfully validating theoretical predictions for entanglement equipartition in both the transverse-field Ising model and the Heisenberg chain across one and two dimensions.
This paper extends neural network field theory to topological settings by incorporating discrete parameters for topological quantum numbers, successfully recovering the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition and verifying key aspects of T-duality in bosonic string theory, including momentum-winding exchange, Buscher rules, current algebra enhancement, and non-geometric T-fold transitions.
This paper demonstrates that introducing a Fujikawa-type potential into a twisted super-Yang-Mills theory triggers spontaneous symmetry breaking in a non-Abelian topological gauge theory, generating massive vector bosons and fermions with correlated masses () provided the gauge group is at least and three vacuum directions are utilized.
This paper investigates how spin condensates, arising from rigid rotation in the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, can counteract the rotational suppression of chiral condensates and potentially shift the chiral phase transition from second to first order.
This paper extends the AdS/BCFT correspondence to Horndeski gravity, demonstrating that the linear growth of holographic complexity and the switchback effect persist for rotating and charged black holes when the theory's effective causal structure aligns with the background metric, thereby supporting the "complexity=action" conjecture in scalar-tensor theories.
This paper conjectures an exact formula for three-point functions of -leg and diagonal fields in two-dimensional critical non-intersecting loop models, which is supported by agreement with Conformal Loop Ensemble results and numerical transfer matrix computations on cylindrical lattices, with minor discrepancies attributed to degenerate ground states in the Jones-Temperley-Lieb algebra.
This paper analyzes constraints on axion-photon coupling from global 21-cm signal observations and identifies viable parameter regions where parametric resonance can simultaneously satisfy observational limits and support the formation of primordial magnetic fields and direct collapse black holes.
This paper presents a manifestly Lorentz invariant reformulation of top-quark condensation for the Higgs boson, utilizing an extended internal wave-function and a gauge-invariant absence of "relative time" to establish a novel, nontrivial vacuum structure analogous to a relativistic BCS condensate.
This paper constructs holographic tensor network models based on partial-entanglement-entropy (PEE) thread tessellations of AdS space, demonstrating that assigning quantum states to network vertices reproduces the exact Ryu-Takayanagi formula by equating minimal surface cuts with geometric area.
This paper presents a first-principles, non-perturbative study of quantum entanglement among partons in a strongly coupled scalar Yukawa theory using light-front Hamiltonian methods, revealing that while entanglement in the quenched limit relates to classical Shannon entropy, the unquenched framework exhibits genuine non-classical correlations that encode quantum information beyond classical probabilities.