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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.
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Below are the latest papers in high-energy theoretical physics, curated to help you navigate the most significant recent discoveries.
This paper employs holographic QCD to demonstrate that chiral soliton lattices in rotating matter under a magnetic field constitute a ground state, deriving an effective Hamiltonian with an anisotropic, field-dependent meson decay constant and analyzing the system's thermodynamic properties and brane interpretation.
This paper validates the configurational temperature estimator as a robust internal diagnostic tool for Monte Carlo and Langevin simulations of the 3D XY model with an imaginary chemical potential, demonstrating its effectiveness in checking algorithmic correctness and thermalization while identifying finite-size effects as the primary source of deviations in the ordered phase.
This paper proposes that Miura operators of -deformed - and -algebras correspond to R-matrices of the quantum toroidal algebra of , a connection physically realized through M2-M5 brane intersections in M-theory and verified via dual Type IIB gauge theory descriptions and $qq$-character constructions.
This paper provides a detailed derivation of conformal blocks for and Wess-Zumino-Witten models using their free-field representations, explicitly demonstrating the emergence of global $sl(2)$ and $sl(3)$ symmetries and verifying the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations through double integral expressions.
This paper proposes a Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model framework utilizing non-invertible selection rules derived from gauging the outer automorphism of a discrete symmetry to simultaneously generate realistic fermion mass textures and suppress flavor-changing neutral currents while maintaining stability under renormalization group evolution.
This paper proposes using open system probes, such as a qubit coupled to a transverse-field Ising model, to characterize quantum many-body systems by mapping long-range spatial correlations onto dynamical probe correlations, thereby enabling the identification of renormalization group fixed points, scaling dimensions, and flow behaviors.
This paper presents a hybrid classical-quantum strategy to enhance the efficiency of Hamiltonian truncation for quantum field theories by introducing an integer partition-based basis generation, symmetry-aware sparse matrix construction, and quantum Krylov diagonalization, demonstrating significant computational gains in two-dimensional scalar and models.
This paper demonstrates that combining analytic trial functions with modern machine learning-inspired optimization techniques provides a powerful and efficient method for accurately determining the critical temperature and eigenvalue properties of holographic superconductors across a wide range of parameters.
By applying the entire-hypergeometric resummation algorithm to seven-loop -expansion series, this study demonstrates that the accuracy of critical exponent predictions for the -invariant model significantly improves with increasing , achieving precision comparable to Monte Carlo and non-perturbative RG methods for large .
This paper presents an unfolded formulation of linearised 6D exotic supergravity with manifest superconformal symmetry, utilizing a superoscillator realisation of the metaplectic supergroup to construct exotic graviton potentials sourced by chiral Weyl zero-forms and define associated on-shell and off-shell quadratic observables.