{"title":"Monopole-vortex continuity of ( mathcal{N} ) = 1 super Yang-Mills theory on ℝ2 × S1 × S1 with ’t Hooft twist","authors":"Yui Hayashi, Tatsuhiro Misumi, Yuya Tanizaki","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)194","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 1 SU(<i>N</i>) super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory on <i>ℝ</i><sup>2</sup> × (<i>S</i><sup>1</sup>)<sub>3</sub> × (<i>S</i><sup>1</sup>)<sub>4</sub> with the ’t Hooft twist. The theory becomes weakly coupled if the length <i>L</i><sub>4</sub> of (<i>S</i><sup>1</sup>)<sub>4</sub> is sufficiently small, <i>NL</i><sub>4</sub>Λ ≪ 1. We explore the nonperturbative dynamics at the weak-coupling regime by changing the size of <i>L</i><sub>3</sub> and uncover how 3d monopole/bion-based effective theory for <i>L</i><sub>3</sub> ≫ <i>L</i><sub>4</sub> is related to the 2d vortex-based theory for <i>L</i><sub>3</sub> ≈ <i>L</i><sub>4</sub>. The highlights of our results are (1) the smooth “weak-weak” continuity of the vacuum structure and gluino condensate during the 3d-2d dimensional reduction, (2) the switching of Wilson loop behavior from the area law in 3d to the perimeter law in 2d via a “double-string” picture, (3) the role of mass deformation in breaking discrete chiral symmetry and restoring the area law in 2d, and (4) the microscopic investigation of bions during the reduction from 3d to 2d and the cancellation of the vacuum energy due to the hidden topological angle. We also discuss the generalization of our results for (1)–(3) from <span>( mathcal{N} )</span> = 1 SYM to QCD with adjoint quarks.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)194.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144125737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Projection-to-Born-improved subtractions at NNLO","authors":"John Campbell, Tobias Neumann, Gherardo Vita","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)172","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)172","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the current frontier in fixed-order precision for collider observables is N<sup>3</sup>LO, important steps are necessary to consolidate NNLO cross-section predictions with improved stability and efficiency. Slicing methods have been successfully applied to obtain NNLO and N<sup>3</sup>LO predictions, but have shown poor performance in the presence of fiducial cuts due to large kinematical power corrections. In this paper we implement Projection-to-Born-improved <i>q</i><sub><i>T</i></sub> (P2B <i>q</i><sub><i>T</i></sub>) and jettiness (P2B <i>τ</i><sub>0</sub>) subtractions for a large class of color singlet processes in MCFM. This method allows for the efficient evaluation of <i>fiducial</i> power corrections in any non-local subtraction scheme using a Projection-to-Born subtraction. We demonstrate the significant numerical improvements of this method based on fiducial Drell-Yan and Higgs cross-sections. Moreover, with fiducial power corrections removed via this method, the leading-logarithmic power corrections that have only been calculated without fiducial cuts can be included, further improving the calculations. For di-photon production with photon isolation, we devise a novel method in combination with P2B-improved subtractions, which we name P2B<sub><i>γ</i></sub> <i>τ</i><sub>0</sub>, and P2B<sub><i>γ</i></sub> <i>q</i><sub><i>T</i></sub> for the two subtraction schemes, respectively. This method allows the inclusion of both fiducial power corrections due to kinematic cuts on the photons and a set of isolation power corrections in the fragmentation channel where a quark may enter the isolation cone. We find significant improvements in the convergence of NNLO di-photon cross-sections with photon isolation cuts, demonstrating that it is possible to achieve a stable and efficient calculation of di-photon cross-sections using slicing methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)172.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144108528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William E. Salazar, Juan Diego Urbina, Javier Madroñero
{"title":"On a matrix ensemble for arbitrary complex quantum systems","authors":"William E. Salazar, Juan Diego Urbina, Javier Madroñero","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)178","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)178","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present a comprehensive analytical study of a variation of the eigenvector ensemble initially proposed by Deutsch [1, 2] for the foundations of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH). This ensemble, called the <i>C</i>-ensemble, incorporates additional system-dependent information, enabling the study of complex quantum systems beyond the universal predictions of Random Matrix Theory (RMT). Specifically, we focus on how system-specific details influence late-time behavior in correlation functions, such as the spectral form factor, and how explicit Hamiltonian corrections not captured by RMT can be included. We demonstrate the consistency of this ensemble with respect to the universal (Haar) results by showing that it defines a unitary 1-design for arbitrary systems and for strongly chaotic systems it becomes an approximated 2-design. Universal expressions for two- and four-point ensemble-averaged correlation functions are derived, revealing how system-dependent information is spectrally decoupled. Furthermore, we show that for small energy windows, the correlation functions defined by this ensemble reduce to the predictions made by the ETH.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)178.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144117800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photon polarization tensor at finite temperature and density in a magnetic field","authors":"Kenji Fukushima, Yoshimasa Hidaka, Tomoya Uji","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)181","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)181","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present analytical and numerical calculations for the photon polarization tensor at finite temperature and density in a constant magnetic field. We first discuss the tensor decomposition in the presence of the magnetic field, which breaks rotational symmetry. Then, we analytically perform all the momentum integrations and numerically take the Landau level sum. We confirm that the imaginary part of the photon polarization tensor correctly reproduces the known result from the independent calculation. We utilize the Kramers-Kronig relation to estimate the real part numerically as a function of the momenta, the chemical potential, and the finite temperature. As an application, we consider the real photon limit and estimate the photon decay rate and the Stokes parameter in the hot and dense medium. We specifically quantify the difference between the X-mode and the O-mode with the polarization orthogonal and parallel to the magnetic field. As long as the magnetic field is weak, the decay rate of the X-mode photon is larger than that of the O-mode photon, while the O-mode becomes dominant due to the Landau level suppression of the X-mode at a strong magnetic field. We also find that the eigenmodes of the propagating photon change their polarization state with increasing density.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)181.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144108599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symmetric product orbifold universality and the mirage of an emergent spacetime","authors":"Alexandre Belin, Suzanne Bintanja, Alejandra Castro, Waltraut Knop","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)190","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)190","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study thermal two-point functions and four-point functions involving two heavy twisted operators and two light probes in symmetric product orbifolds. We identify cases where they are universal at large <i>N</i>, that is, they are only sensitive to the orbifold structure. Surprisingly, such observables mimic correlators obtained from the BTZ background, even though symmetric product orbifolds are not dual to semi-classical gravity. We discuss the interpretation of these results in light of the criteria for emergence of spacetime via Von Neumann algebras. Our analysis implies that a condition on the infinite <i>N</i> thermal two-point functions cannot be stringent enough to define an emergent spacetime and the concept of a sharp horizon.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)190.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144125727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the normalization of open-closed string amplitudes","authors":"Ashoke Sen, Barton Zwiebach","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)188","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)188","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We use the factorization constraints of open-closed string field theory to determine the signs and normalizations of general string amplitudes with both open and closed string external states. The normalization of all amplitudes is controlled by the genus, the number of boundaries, the number of open and closed string insertions, the string coupling and the D-brane tension. The challenge with signs arises because the relevant moduli spaces are not complex manifolds and have no obvious orientation. We deal with this by fixing a specific convention for the sign of the integration measure over the moduli space and adopting a consistent prescription for the ordering of operators and ghost insertions inside correlators.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)188.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144108601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Valerio Bertone, Miguel G. Echevarria, Oscar del Rio, Simone Rodini
{"title":"One-loop matching for leading-twist generalised transverse-momentum-dependent distributions","authors":"Valerio Bertone, Miguel G. Echevarria, Oscar del Rio, Simone Rodini","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)183","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)183","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We present the one-loop matching coefficients necessary to match all of the leading-twist generalised transverse-momentum-dependent distributions (GTMDs) onto generalised parton distributions (GPDs). Matching functions are extracted by computing the first radiative corrections to partonic bilocal correlators with staple-like Wilson lines, as appropriate for high-energy collisions. These correlators are characterised by a transverse displacement and skewed kinematics of external states. Using the proton helicity basis, they are parametrised in terms of GTMDs, which are subsequently related to leading-twist GPDs. Our results provide new insights into the complex dynamics of GTMDs generated by radiative corrections. In particular, we show that time-reversal even and odd contributions to GTMDs in the so-called ERBL region mix both under matching and evolution. Finally, we present a selection of numerical results and comment on the quantitative behaviour of GTMDs.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)183.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144108505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What happens when supercooling is terminated by curvature flipping of the effective potential?","authors":"Tomasz P. Dutka, Tae Hyun Jung, Chang Sub Shin","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)182","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We explore the nature of a certain type of supercooled phase transition, where the supercooling is guaranteed to end due to the curvature of the finite-temperature effective potential at the origin experiencing a sign flip at some temperature. In such models the potential barrier trapping the scalar field at the meta-stable origin is quickly vanishing at the temperature scale of the phase transition. It is therefore not immediately clear if critical bubbles are able to form, or whether the field will simply transition over the barrier and smoothly roll down to the true minimum. To address this question, we perform lattice simulations of a scalar potential exhibiting supercooling, with a small barrier around the origin, and qualitatively determine the fate of the phase transition. Our simulations indicate that, owing to the required flatness of the potential, the scalar field remains trapped around the origin such that the phase transition generically proceeds via the nucleation and expansion of true-vacuum bubbles. We comment on the possible gravitational wave signals one might expect in a concrete toy model and discuss the parameter space in which bubble percolation is and isn’t expected.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)182.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144125728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shreya Vardhan, Sašo Grozdanov, Samuel Leutheusser, Hong Liu
{"title":"Effective field theories of dissipative fluids with one-form symmetries","authors":"Shreya Vardhan, Sašo Grozdanov, Samuel Leutheusser, Hong Liu","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)184","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)184","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A system with a one-form global symmetry at finite temperature can be viewed as a dissipative fluid of string-like objects. In this work, we classify and construct the most general effective field theories for hydrodynamics of such string fluids, in a probe limit where the one-form charge density is decoupled from the energy-momentum tensor. We show that at leading order in the derivative expansion, there are two distinct types of diffusive transport in a string fluid depending on the discrete spacetime symmetries present in it. One particular application of interest is magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), where the effective field theories describe the diffusion of magnetic field lines. Due to the distinction between the effective field theories for different discrete symmetries, we show that the MHD of a fluid with charge conjugation symmetry is qualitatively different from that of a neutron star, which we previously discussed in [1]. The explicit effective actions that we write down can be used to obtain the dispersion relations <i>ω</i>(<i>k</i>) up to cubic order in momenta for each of the different discrete symmetry choices. As another application of this formalism, we show that when the one-form symmetry is spontaneously broken, the effective action reduces to the Maxwell theory. This confirms the interpretation of the photon as a Goldstone boson arising from the spontaneous breaking of a one-form symmetry.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)184.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144108598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ignacio Carreño Bolla, Sebastián Franco, Diego Rodríguez-Gómez
{"title":"The 5d tangram: brane webs, 7-branes and primitive T-cones","authors":"Ignacio Carreño Bolla, Sebastián Franco, Diego Rodríguez-Gómez","doi":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)175","DOIUrl":"10.1007/JHEP05(2025)175","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two highly successful approaches to constructing 5d SCFTs are geometric engineering using M-theory on a Calabi-Yau 3-fold and the use of 5-brane webs suspended from 7-branes in Type IIB string theory. In the brane web realization, the extended Coulomb branch of the 5d SCFT can be studied by opening the web using rigid triple intersections of branes — i.e. configurations with no deformations. In this paper, we argue that the geometric engineering counterpart of these rigid triple intersections are the T-cones introduced in the mathematical literature. We extend the class of rigid brane webs to include locked superpositions of the minimal ones. These rigid brane webs serve as fundamental building blocks for supersymmetrically tessellating Generalized Toric Polygons (GTPs) from first principles. Interestingly, we find that the extended Coulomb branch generally exhibits a structure consisting of multiple cones intersecting at a single point. Hanany-Witten (HW) transitions in the web have been conjectured to correspond geometrically to flat fibrations over a line, where the central and generic fibers represent the geometries dual to the webs before and after the transition. We demonstrate this explicitly in an example, showing that for GTPs reducing to standard toric diagrams, the HW transition corresponds to a deformation of the BPS quiver that we map to the geometric deformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":635,"journal":{"name":"Journal of High Energy Physics","volume":"2025 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/JHEP05(2025)175.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144108600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}