3591 papers
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 introduces a deformation of holomorphic Chern-Simons theory on Calabi-Yau three-folds via complex structure deformations, identifying new instanton solutions that yield anomaly-free real gauge theories and explicit partition functions in the large deformation limit.
This paper presents a continuous algebraic derivation of the Euler ensemble as the universal attractor of decaying fluid turbulence by reformulating the Navier-Stokes equation as a covariant derivative flow and applying Feynman's operational calculus to map non-commutative operator algebra to roots of unity, thereby demonstrating that macroscopic fluid chaos is a deterministic projection of the Farey sequence without relying on spatial lattice approximations.
This paper systematically compares the applicability, ease of use, and predictive power of prominent diagnostic tools for assessing the correctness of complex Langevin simulations by applying them to four simple but nontrivial models.
This paper utilizes the Method of Random Surfaces to compute finite-temperature correlation functions in the sine-Gordon model, providing reliable non-perturbative data for intermediate regimes and deriving exact results for arbitrary N-point functions that characterize the system's non-Gaussian correlations.
This paper investigates the scattering of spin-3/2 fermions mediated by a Yukawa-like coupling within the massive Rarita-Schwinger model, deriving differential and total cross sections at both zero and finite temperatures (using Thermofield Dynamics) to analyze the effects of thermal conditions and interaction range.
This paper reviews a unified semiclassical framework for many-body systems of indistinguishable particles, which utilizes an effective Planck constant scaling as to explain diverse quantum chaotic phenomena such as spectral correlations, eigenstate morphology, weak localization, and information scrambling.
This paper investigates the rich and nontrivial classical dynamics of test particles moving in constant synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields, highlighting how the coupling between real-space motion and internal color degrees of freedom produces unique behaviors distinct from Abelian electrodynamics and encodes signatures of the underlying gauge sources.
This paper presents a real-time path-integral formulation of the quantum Fisher information for pure states undergoing unitary evolution, expressing it as a connected symmetrized covariance of time-integrated action deformations within the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism to facilitate many-body calculations and semiclassical analysis without explicit state reconstruction.
This article reviews the construction of a chaos-assisted low-dimensional holographic correspondence between the SYK model and Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity for non-experts, demonstrating how quantum chaos bridges bulk and boundary physics and necessitates string theory elements to resolve fine-grained quantum scales.
This paper proposes that the capture and subsequent heating of dark matter by a hypothetical ninth planet could generate a detectable thermal radio flux and raise its surface temperature to approximately 200 K, offering a potential observational signature for Planet 9 even if it lacks optical luminosity.