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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 proposes that the melting of a crystalline membrane is described by a specific renormalization group fixed point (P2), demonstrating that this transition naturally generates a fluid membrane with well-behaved correlation functions that avoid the "ghost" instabilities typically found in the standard Canham-Helfrich action.
This paper proposes a renormalizable and unitary model of quantum gravity that utilizes a Lagrange multiplier field to restrict one-loop quantum corrections to the Einstein-Hilbert action while ensuring the recovery of classical Einstein field equations.
This paper establishes a unified framework for understanding the persistence of Yangian symmetry in deformed integrable sigma models by generalizing the BIZZ recursive procedure to systematically generate non-local charges and demonstrate their Yangian algebra structure across a broad class of auxiliary field deformations.
This paper computes the gravitational form factors of pion and kaon mesons using Basis Light-Front Quantization, finding agreement with lattice QCD for the form factor while observing an enhanced magnitude for the form factor at low momentum transfer due to zero-mode effects, and subsequently derives the mesons' mass and mechanical radii along with their internal pressure and shear-force distributions.
This paper demonstrates that a recently proposed new gauge multiplet is a constrained or partially dualized version of the Large Vector Multiplet, which serves as the fundamental tool for gauging isometries on both chiral and twisted chiral fields in sigma models, ultimately leading to a system interacting with the sigma model.
This paper establishes a unified geometric framework linking generalized black hole entropy functionals to scalar-tensor gravity by deriving specific Einstein-frame scalar potentials that connect information-theoretic entropy proposals to observable cosmological phenomena while remaining consistent with current experimental constraints.
Using variational Monte Carlo methods with neural quantum states, this study analyzes the near-kernel sector of the Hamiltonian constraint in quantum reduced loop gravity and identifies three distinct classes of solutions, including a factorized branch that is accurately described by emergent semiclassical Thiemann coherent states.
This paper investigates field theory models of holographic superconductors in two dimensions where order parameter condensation is induced by Robin boundary conditions, utilizing modular invariance to analytically reproduce holographic phase diagrams and matching near-critical behavior with Ginzburg-Landau theory while exploring fractional Little-Parks effects through vortex models.
This paper establishes a model-independent lower bound on the cost of preparing target quantum states from the vacuum using local operators, demonstrating that states with negative modular energy require large non-unitary operations or incur significant postselection overhead, with explicit bounds derived for wedge and conformal field theory geometries.
This paper demonstrates that in the low-energy near-BPS sectors of the D1D5 CFT, finite- non-planar mixing between single-cycle and multi-cycle states restores level repulsion and random-matrix statistics, whereas the planar large- limit suppresses this mixing, resulting in Poisson-like level statistics.