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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 a theoretical model and experimental scheme to detect a purely quantum gravity-induced tidal deflection, manifesting as irreducible noise in the geodesic separation of two parallel atom laser beams derived from Bose-Einstein condensates.
This paper investigates the compatibility of analogue black holes realized in platforms like superconducting quantum circuits with known dilaton gravity models, finding that current implementations do not match established theories but suggesting that the research focus should shift to deriving experimental conditions from well-known theoretical models.
This paper proposes that Hořava-Witten theory can realize the Dark Dimension Scenario with a micron-sized observable sector, where symmetric tadpole cancellation on walls mitigates issues like rapid proton decay, while gauge coupling constraints drive the system to a special infinite distance limit where moduli dependence may be derived from one-loop Schwinger integrals.
This paper demonstrates that for a massive spin-3/2 particle, the effective field theory couplings consistent with unitarity and analyticity form a Planck-suppressed, bounded region around the supergravity point that shrinks to zero volume as the mass vanishes, thereby confirming that a consistent massless limit strictly requires the presence of a graviton and supergravity-tuned interactions.
This paper demonstrates that the internal structure of multipartite graph-state circuit blocks, specifically their entanglement distribution and graph-theoretic connectivity, significantly dictates entanglement and scrambling velocities in random Clifford circuits, challenging the assumption that detailed gate structure plays only a limited role in coarse-grained dynamical rates.
This paper demonstrates that in compact spatial dimensions below a critical volume, false vacuum decay is mediated by a novel homogeneous bounce solution—distinct from Coleman's bubble—that exponentially enhances the decay rate and applies to phenomena such as the Schwinger effect in compact space.
This paper demonstrates that the Aharonov--Casher effect can emerge dynamically within an exact , supersymmetric gauge model featuring a Lorentz-violating Kalb--Ramond background and a Fayet--Iliopoulos term, thereby resolving the apparent incompatibility between the effect and unbroken supersymmetry.
This paper bridges a gap in the study of the 3D dipolar universality class by introducing a constrained lattice model and a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate systems up to , thereby confirming a continuous phase transition and providing new estimates for critical exponents and the Binder ratio.
This paper demonstrates that a gravity-scalar system with a scale-dependent kinetic form factor admits a non-trivial asymptotically safe fixed point characterized by non-local scaling behavior at the cutoff scale that becomes local in the continuum limit.
This paper employs the Thermo Field Dynamics formalism to investigate how Podolsky electrodynamics, a second-order Lorentz- and gauge-invariant extension of classical electrodynamics, modifies fundamental phenomena such as the Stefan-Boltzmann law and the Casimir effect under conditions of finite temperature and spatial confinement.