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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 numerically investigates the non-equilibrium evolution of a quantum scalar field following a mass quench in a finite-size system, revealing that periodic boundary conditions cause counter-propagating wave fronts to interfere at half the system size, resulting in a strong disturbance of the effective mass.
This paper demonstrates that horizon symmetries of AdS black holes are realized as gauge symmetries within hydrodynamic actions for the dual stress tensor, explicitly deriving these actions for JT and AdS gravity to confirm their connection to effective theories of maximal chaos.
This paper derives a closed, finite expression for the entanglement entropy of quantum matter in spacetimes with Killing horizons by integrating the first law of thermodynamics along a temperature-dependent family of equilibrium backgrounds, thereby reproducing the exact conical entropy (including contact terms) without relying on replica tricks or conical singularities.
This paper investigates the dielectric constant of holographic insulators by utilizing the quantum geometry of the ground state, specifically deriving the quantum metric and Berry curvature from the effective Hamiltonian of holographic fermions to compute transport properties and conductivity.
The paper proposes a no-particle production condition in two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space that uniquely reconstructs curved-space Liouville and Toda theories through general-multiplicity holographic correlators.
This paper demonstrates that interpreting charged-lepton flavor violation limits as probes of -sector new physics requires simultaneously accounting for both dimension-6 renormalization-group running and dimension-8 operator mixing, as neglecting either mechanism leads to significant errors in constraining the underlying Wilson coefficients.
This paper utilizes the Mellin-Barnes representation of de Sitter propagators to express tree-level and one-loop massive particle exchange diagrams as finite, convergent integrals, enabling the direct computation of cosmological collider signatures like the triple-exchange bispectrum and complete one-loop triangle without requiring analytic continuation.
This paper constructs new higher-dimensional vacuum spacetimes with two independent swirling parameters by applying hidden symmetries of a dimensionally reduced sigma model, revealing distinctive multidirectional asymptotic structures and directional curvature singularities that are accessible via causal geodesics.
This paper proposes a non-perturbative formulation of quantum gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes by demonstrating that Witten's cubic open string field theory on unstable D-branes dynamically generates the closed string S-matrix through gauge-invariant operators, thereby establishing a concrete flat-space analogue of the AdS/CFT correspondence.
This paper presents a complete analytic computation of the energy-energy correlator (EEC) in super Yang-Mills theory at next-to-next-to-leading order by resolving the elliptic sector through its identification with the sunrise integral's modular curve and expressing the result in terms of iterated Eisenstein integrals.