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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.
Using the functional renormalization group within the quark-meson model, this study demonstrates that the critical scaling region of the chiral phase transition systematically shrinks as chemical potential increases, with consistent results observed across both local potential approximations.
This paper develops a universal effective field theory for the low-energy surface oscillations of self-bound superfluid droplets, deriving the normal-mode eigenfrequencies, identifying a critical instability for the breathing mode, and quantizing the resulting ripplons to describe multi-ripplon states in systems like Bose mixtures.
This paper critically examines a recent analysis claiming evidence for a QCD critical end point via finite-size scaling of net-proton cumulants, highlighting methodological issues regarding acceptance windows, multiplicity scaling, and thermodynamic fields that must be addressed for a consistent interpretation.
This paper demonstrates that within Einstein gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics and a phantom scalar field, the Simpson-Visser regular black hole possesses a vanishing thermodynamic mass due to boundary contributions, yet remains thermodynamically less favorable than its singular counterpart when compared under identical thermal and magnetic conditions.
This paper introduces , a high-performance Go-based tool for rapidly evaluating conformal blocks in odd spacetime dimensions via recursive relations, demonstrating significant speed improvements over existing packages and successfully applying the method to optimize the mixed-correlator bootstrap of the 3D Ising model and vector models.
This paper establishes the equivalence between path integral and stochastic quantizations for generic scalar Euclidean quantum field theories by providing two novel proofs based on Taylor interpolations indexed by forests: one operating at the level of individual Feynman expansion terms and the other directly at the path integral level without requiring a full perturbative expansion.
This paper establishes a framework of Courant algebroid relations to connect Dirac structures, spinors, and generalised complex/Kähler geometries, demonstrating how these relations induce T-duality in supersymmetric sigma-models and remain compatible with Type II supergravity equations.
This paper demonstrates that within the most general formulation of gravity with independent metric and connection, a unique naturally light vector or scalar distortion field emerges as a dynamical degree of freedom, notably predicting a light scalar particle that mixes with the Higgs boson.
This paper investigates the emission distribution of topologically massive quanta in 2+1 dimensional Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory coupled to an external current, revealing that the distribution is Poissonian under a specific condition required to prevent indeterminacy when the coupling term vanishes.
This paper utilizes 3D-3D correspondence to construct 3D bulk field theories dual to general Virasoro minimal models, distinguishing between unitary cases that flow to topological field theories and non-unitary cases that flow to rank-0 superconformal field theories, with explicit descriptions provided via theories and verified through partition function computations.