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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 study demonstrates that a higher-derivative Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator model successfully predicts a parabolic relationship between movement duration and smoothness in head-pointing tasks, revealing a nonlinear temporal organization modulated by direction-specific biomechanical constraints in healthy adults.
Using the Worldline Quantum Field Theory framework, this paper computes the classical gravitational Compton amplitude to the fifth post-Minkowskian order and demonstrates that matching the result to black-hole perturbation theory confirms the vanishing static Love numbers of a Schwarzschild black hole.
This paper constructs new series representations for multiple- integrals, which serve as building blocks for conformal correlators in momentum space, by employing the method of brackets to derive convergent expansions that cover the entire physical kinematic region, overcoming the limitations of existing series representations.
This paper investigates the information-theoretic capacity of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models as approximate quantum error correction codes under decoherence, revealing that strong fermion parity symmetric noise induces a strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking transition that degrades wormhole traversability and marks a critical threshold for code performance.
This paper reformulates the D1-D5 CFT lifting problem as a supercharge cohomology problem, explicitly enumerating and classifying BPS states into "fortuitous" and "monotone" categories within the deformed symmetric orbifold to match exact partition functions and interpret their holographic duals as black hole bound states and stringy excitations on smooth geometries.
This paper proposes a novel numerical method using diffusion models to efficiently search for phenomenologically viable parameters in the modular flavor model, successfully reproducing quark observables and confirming spontaneous CP violation through an inverse problem approach.
This paper extends the recently established framework of understanding dualities through finite-depth quantum circuit gauging and disentangling to continuum field theories, demonstrating its efficacy by re-deriving T-duality and bosonization.
This paper reformulates elementary results of quantum Ising models to draw parallels with false vacuum decay in quantum field theory, investigates bubble wall dynamics, and proposes a speculative conjecture for the decay rate in two-dimensional systems.
This paper proposes a relativistic extension of Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) derived from temperature-corrected entropic gravity, which successfully reproduces galactic rotation curve data for NGC 3198 with accuracy comparable to dark matter models while offering a unified relativistic framework for MOND phenomenology.
This paper argues that extremal black holes are astrophysically implausible in our universe by demonstrating that Schwinger discharge imposes a mass limit exceeding for charged holes, Lee-Nair-Weinberg instabilities and enhanced pair production render magnetic charges cosmologically unviable, and superradiant scattering likely drains angular momentum from extremal Kerr black holes.