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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 tensor-product regularized qubit Hamiltonian that interpolates between Rokhsar-Kivelson dimer models and the -flux toric code, revealing a phase diagram with deconfined topological liquids and identifying a deconfined multicritical point where three distinct quantum phase transitions meet.
This paper explores the astrophysical implications of string-inspired multi-scalar-tensor theories by numerically solving the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkov equations to demonstrate how a screening mechanism can suppress the coupling of Brans-Dicke dilatons to macroscopic objects like neutron stars.
This paper investigates the Dirac operator on a finite warped cylinder with a gauge field by characterizing the APS boundary spectrum, demonstrating the vanishing of the APS index in the invertible constant-gauge case, and introducing a regularized self-adjoint boundary condition that ensures continuity across spectral crossings to enable a consistent spectral flow analysis within the Maslov framework.
This paper derives an explicit one-loop off-shell effective action for interacting gravitational and matter fields in a general background gauge, confirming the DeWitt-Kallosh theorem's prediction of gauge-independent on-shell results and using this framework to demonstrate the theory's non-renormalizability.
This paper presents a new method for computing massless bosonic three-loop vacuum sum-integrals by generalizing tensor reduction via dimensionality shifts to finite temperature, thereby enabling the final evaluation of the NNLO Debye screening mass in hot QCD.
This paper derives a holographic formulation of triplet superconductivity in a compressible quantum critical metal by mapping the pairing problem from a large- Yukawa-SYK model onto a scalar field theory in an emergent AdS spacetime, where the superconducting instability corresponds to a Breitenlohner-Freedman instability equivalent to the linearized Eliashberg equations.
This paper derives analytic results for scalar massless bosonic vacuum sum-integrals at two loops by proving their factorization into one-loop structures, thereby enabling the elimination of these complex terms from perturbative expansions in hot QCD.
This paper establishes that the physical consistency requirements of magic state distillation impose new, strictly stronger constraints on the weight enumerators of classical error-correcting codes than classical invariant theory, thereby proving the non-existence of extremal Hermitian self-dual codes over with parameters and providing new upper bounds on the performance of -state distillation protocols.
This paper introduces a "Mille-feuille" framework using Symmetry Topological Field Theories (SymTFTs) to construct dual gapped bulk descriptions for continuous subsystem symmetries, thereby generating gapless boundary theories with spontaneous symmetry breaking and providing a systematic method to realize various exotic models and self-duality symmetries.
This paper proposes a rigorous quantum Hamiltonian formalism for renormalization group flows in topologically ordered systems by leveraging the algebraic relationship between homomorphisms, quotient rings, and ideals to characterize generalized symmetries, determine anyon condensation rules, and constrain gapped phase classifications.