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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 that R-twisting allows Seiberg-Witten curves of 4d Argyres-Douglas theories to form mapping tori of torus knots, thereby generating 3d gauge theories that resolve boundary issues in domain wall approaches, capture 4d BPS spectra, and exhibit supersymmetry enhancement.
This paper demonstrates that extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) gravitational wave signatures around Schwarzschild-like black holes embedded in exponential dark matter halos exhibit distinct, non-monotonic dependencies on the halo's scale radius and mass, offering a viable strong-field method to disentangle the total mass and spatial extent of dark matter distributions.
This paper demonstrates that non-invertible Kennedy--Tasaki duals do not necessarily share identical finite-temperature phase diagrams, revealing a specific mismatch in three dimensions where a deconfinement transition in the dual gauge theory corresponds to an analytic paramagnetic phase in the original cluster model, thereby proving that such dualities can fail to preserve thermal order.
This paper investigates the differential geometry of thermo-metrics on Calabi-Vesentini manifolds associated with extended Souriau Gibbs distributions, revealing that while the unconstrained thermo-space is flat, freezing magnetic fields induces curvature on submanifolds whose structure depends on the length of frozen field chains and exhibits geometric features reminiscent of Lorentzian causal structures and Penrose diagrams.
This paper introduces a unified framework for analyzing time-dependent two-mode bosonic systems by reducing their dynamics to a single Riccati equation for the Bogoliubov ratio, enabling the direct calculation of key quantum-information metrics like entropy and purity without model-specific diagonalization, as demonstrated in applications to cosmological perturbations and optical parametric amplifiers.
This paper characterizes a rich family of everywhere regular supersymmetric vacua in gauged supergravity, derived from M-theory on with anti-periodic fermions on a spacelike circle, which holographically describe strongly coupled confining gauge theories in three dimensions.
This paper extends holographic thermal two-point function calculations to nonzero spatial separation by resolving KMS-induced ambiguities using the zero-frequency bulk wave equation, thereby providing an efficient method for computing spin-resolved double-trace thermal coefficients and demonstrating that complex bulk-cone singularities are resolved by double-trace contributions.
This paper demonstrates that applying a large boost to a hydrodynamic system alters the convergence of its long-wavelength expansion by shifting the limiting nonhydrodynamic singularity to the near-light-cone region of the rest-frame spectrum, where the rescaled convergence scale is governed by the theory's microscopic spectral structure.
This paper proposes the DARK-ROSE experiment, which utilizes high-quality-factor millimeter-sized spherical dielectric resonators to enhance axion-mediated photon-to-photon transitions by tailoring Mie resonances to match expected axion frequencies, thereby offering a new pathway to detect axion dark matter.
This paper investigates how particle spin and Lorentz symmetry breaking in Bumblebee gravity jointly modulate chaos bound violations in black hole spacetimes, revealing that spin lowers the critical angular momentum for violations while Lorentz violation suppresses the accessible parameter space and a negative cosmological constant enhances violation magnitude.