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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 presents and experimentally demonstrates a measurement-only protocol on Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion processor that successfully reconstructs the non-Abelian braiding and fusion primitives of the quantum double model with high fidelity, eliminating the need for physical anyon transport.
This paper investigates the entanglement entropy of a conformally coupled scalar field in -dimensional Anti-de Sitter space, demonstrating that while the UV-divergent component remains universal, the finite part depends sensitively on the specific boundary conditions imposed at the conformal boundary.
This paper demonstrates that projecting Gibbs states onto the symmetric sector of contractible one-form symmetries stabilizes distinct symmetry-protected topological and projected-paramagnetic phases in a three-dimensional cluster model, which are characterized by a quantized flux-twisted membrane invariant taking exact values of $-1$, , or $0$ under specific conditions and supported by Quantum Monte Carlo simulations.
This paper utilizes the AdS/CFT correspondence to demonstrate that two fundamental spherical Wilson surfaces in the six-dimensional theory undergo a first-order Gross-Ooguri phase transition at a numerically determined critical separation distance in the large limit.
This paper proposes a rigorous three-region spacetime model where a rotating black hole is surrounded by a Modified Chaplygin Gas envelope, demonstrating that the resulting deep gravitational potential creates radiative degeneracies that can mimic high-spin signatures and significantly alter accretion disk thermodynamics, thereby challenging standard black hole spin estimation techniques.
This paper investigates how holographic phase transitions influence the local Kasner geometry inside Einstein-scalar black holes, deriving and numerically verifying that the near-critical scaling of Kasner exponents is governed by the boundary condensate's power law, which varies with the order of criticality and is ultimately controlled by the leading irrelevant exponent of the infrared fixed point.
This paper demonstrates that the large size of pion-like excitations in the stringy fluid regime of QCD above the chiral symmetry restoration temperature is a model-independent phenomenon required by current algebra, arising from Pauli blocking effects that cause these mesons to swell significantly.
This paper demonstrates that the imaginary part of holographic timelike entanglement entropy in a five-dimensional anisotropic background is not a universal geometric property but a probe-dependent quantity that sensitively varies with the orientation of the extremal surface relative to the anisotropy.
This paper investigates the gauge structure of Weyl Gravitoelectromagnetism to demonstrate that only an effective spin-2 sector contributes to physical observables, subsequently deriving the Newtonian potential via Bhabha scattering and showing that while it is recovered at low temperatures, it undergoes thermal screening in the high-temperature regime within the Thermo Field Dynamics formalism.
This paper proposes a coupled quintessence model within an axion dark sector, where two interacting axion-like fields describe dark energy and dark matter, demonstrating that this framework effectively addresses recent DESI hints of phantom-like dark energy behavior while providing a statistically superior fit to observational data compared to the standard CDM model without requiring fine-tuned initial conditions.