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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 computes the viscoelastic and thermal response of nuclear pasta phases at finite baryon density by modeling them as Skyrme model crystals and applying Green-Kubo formulas to their low-energy 1+1 dimensional scalar excitations, with results compared to existing literature.
This paper investigates how a non-local Chern-Simons topological term in Maxwell-Chern-Simons pseudo-electrodynamics generates a dynamical mass and energy gap for electromagnetic waves, inducing a novel hybridization between transverse electric and magnetic surface plasmon-polariton modes that is absent in conventional planar plasmonics.
This paper establishes a quasilocal Carrollian framework for gravitational memory at finite distances using null hypersurfaces, demonstrating through Robinson--Trautman spacetimes that the standard Bondi displacement memory emerges as the universal asymptotic limit of a broader geometric response that retains near-zone information and exhibits non-monotonic energy fluxes in the presence of a cosmological constant.
This paper investigates the confinement phase transition in pure Yang-Mills theory at finite using the Improved Holographic QCD model, demonstrating that the critical temperature decreases with to reduce supercooling and analyzing the resulting dynamical formation of domain walls and their potential gravitational wave signatures.
This paper derives compact, coordinate-free transformation laws for torsionful Killing-Yano forms under Abelian T-duality, demonstrating the preservation conditions for Killing 1-forms and providing a generalized-geometric interpretation of emergent isometries through explicit applications to various spacetimes including , Schwarzschild, and the Nappi-Witten plane wave.
This paper simplifies the derivation of the oscillation spectrum for a "defrosted" Born-Infeld dyonic frozen star by using the underlying Lagrangian instead of fluid approximations, thereby confirming that sound velocities scale linearly with the defrosting parameter while lifetimes scale as , and ensuring the consistency of perturbation equations for arbitrary non-spherical deviations.
By modeling scalar perturbations on a dynamical Vaidya background, this study demonstrates that gravitational-wave echoes from accreting exotic compact objects are progressively compressed and suppressed until they vanish upon horizon formation, leaving a standard black hole ringdown signature.
This paper presents the first construction of a 3d Chern-Simons matter theory that flows to a 3d SCFT with a non-trivial Coulomb branch (specifically the orbifold ) via the -twisted reduction of the Argyres--Douglas theory, while also identifying a novel mixing between 4d R-charges and emergent 3d flavor charges.
This paper constructs a nuclear-matter equation of state for neutron stars using a holographic Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model with a face-centered cubic soliton crystal approximation, which successfully reproduces saturation properties and NICER-compatible observables while correcting the deficiencies of previous homogeneous approximations.
This paper proposes a novel cosmological regime for minimal QCD axion dark matter where the Peccei-Quinn symmetry is restored by inflationary fluctuations but not thermally afterwards, leading to late-forming string networks that allow for axion masses up to eV and the formation of massive miniclusters.