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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 proposes a novel framework modeling topological phases of matter by embedding code-based Narain conformal field theories into critical lattice quantum field theory, utilizing Lie algebra constructions to demonstrate emergent fermionic excitations with Dirac cones characteristic of the Haldane model.
This paper presents a holographic model of black hole evaporation in asymptotically flat spacetimes using Brill-Lindquist wormholes and the HRT formula to demonstrate that entanglement entropy follows the Page curve while numerically verifying the predictions of the Python's Lunch conjecture regarding restricted complexity.
This paper investigates the impact of Chern-Simons terms on tree-level soft theorems in 4+1 dimensional Chern-Simons QED and QCD, demonstrating that while leading soft theorems remain universal due to gauge invariance, the subleading soft theorems receive specific corrections that are explicitly derived.
This paper explicitly constructs the effective density matrix and modular Hamiltonian for the vacuum state of a large spherically symmetric causal diamond in four-dimensional asymptotically flat gravity by utilizing the soft effective action to integrate out soft graviton modes, thereby revealing that the variance of the modular Hamiltonian scales with the diamond's area and the inverse square of the UV cutoff.
This paper establishes the fuzzy sphere as a quantitative framework for non-Abelian conformal field theories by presenting a model of strongly interacting fermions that realizes the (2+1)-dimensional O(3) Wilson-Fisher universality class, allowing for the precise extraction of critical data including 24 primary operators and their OPE coefficients through exact diagonalization and DMRG.
This paper constructs differential models for degree-3 twisted -bordism and its Anderson dual to define a geometric twisted anomaly map from differential twisted -theory, utilizing bundle gerbes and reduced eta-invariants to connect these structures to anomalies in twisted supersymmetric field theories.
This paper computes the partition function of an $SU(2)$ topologically twisted theory on via dimensional reduction from , demonstrating that the result depends on a single physical flux rather than three equivariant ones, with the reduced summation compensated by a contour integral that captures additional poles and yields new equivariant invariants related to Donaldson invariants.
This paper extends the Bondi formalism to asymptotically-flat spacetimes with non-vanishing twist by solving the Einstein equations for a generalized gauge, thereby deriving the complete solution space, flux-balance laws, and enhanced asymptotic symmetries (including Carroll boosts), while enabling finite radial expansions for algebraically special solutions like Kerr-Taub-NUT and supertranslated Schwarzschild.
This paper establishes a duality between gravitational junctions in 3D anti-de Sitter spacetime and stringy wave-packets in conformal field theories, demonstrating that these modes undergo perfect reflection without distortion and can be decoded via the entanglement entropy of intervals straddling the interface, even in the tensionless limit.
This paper employs a deformed AdS holographic model to numerically evaluate the proton's gravitational form factors and mechanical properties, demonstrating good agreement with lattice QCD results and confirming the stability of the proton's internal pressure and shear distributions via the von Laue condition.