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Mathematical physics sits at the fascinating intersection where abstract equations meet the fundamental laws of our universe. This field uses rigorous mathematical tools to model everything from the behavior of subatomic particles to the curvature of spacetime, turning complex theories into testable predictions. It is the language through which physicists describe reality, bridging the gap between pure mathematics and physical observation.
On Gist.Science, we process every new preprint published in this category on arXiv to make these dense studies accessible to everyone. Whether you are a specialist or a curious reader, you will find both plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries for each paper. Below are the latest mathematical physics papers from arXiv, curated to help you explore the cutting edge of theoretical science.
This paper proves that a broad class of planar site percolation processes satisfying tail triviality, positive association, and stochastic domination exhibits either zero or infinitely many infinite components, thereby resolving a 1996 conjecture by Benjamini and Schramm and confirming a key aspect of Nienhuis's 1982 phase diagram for the loop O(n) model on the hexagonal lattice.
This paper demonstrates that gauging and duality transformations in one-dimensional quantum lattice models are equivalent up to constant depth quantum circuits by utilizing matrix product operators to represent global symmetries and classify duality transformations, thereby clarifying the handling of static background fields in generalized symmetry gauging.
This paper investigates the long-time approach to equilibrium for a harmonic oscillator coupled to a large chain of oscillators, demonstrating that while the system exhibits thermalization-like behavior at leading order in the coupling strength, higher-order corrections reveal persistent oscillations and power-law decays that prevent the bath from being accurately modeled as a simple stochastic thermostat.
This paper computes the first-order correction in quartic coupling to the entanglement entropy of a non-minimally coupled massive scalar across a Schwarzschild horizon, demonstrating that the resulting divergences are renormalized by bulk mass and Newton's constant counterterms while the finite correction vanishes for conformal coupling.
This paper proposes a combinatorial framework that derives fusion rules for both Abelian and non-Abelian anyonic quasiparticles in fractional quantum Hall systems directly from microscopic wave function data by extending Schrieffer's counting argument to the pattern of dominant orbital occupations.
This paper offers a self-contained introduction to correlation geometry as the foundation of causal fermion systems, emphasizing its treatment of gauge transformations and unitary equivalence while arguing that this framework conceptually aligns more closely with thermodynamics than with standard quantum theory.
This paper extends Lie-algebraic classical simulation beyond the free-fermionic regime by identifying new families of polynomial-dimensional dynamical Lie algebras and introducing symmetry-adapted basis representations that enable efficient simulation of structured quantum dynamics with large Pauli expansions.
This paper develops a rigorous framework for analyzing wave propagation in 2D honeycomb structures with irrational line defects by exploiting quasiperiodicity to construct approximate edge states via a 3D embedding and a resolvent expansion, revealing that such non-commensurate geometries support infinitely many edge states with energies dense in the bulk spectral gap.
This paper systematically analyzes the dependence of ferromagnetic resonance frequency, damping, and quality factor on local energy curvature in ferromagnetic nanomagnets, highlighting how the standard quality factor approximation fails near bifurcation points where the number of metastable energy minima changes.
This paper investigates a linear/nonlinear correspondence generalizing Fritz's "Lie Quandles," classifies a broader class of these structures, and presents results toward a nonlinear analogue of Noether's first theorem.