Lattice QCD at finite temperature and densityI review recent lattice results on strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, with emphasis on the finite-temperature QCD transition at μB=0, its approach toward the chiral limit and…Heng-Tong Ding·Mar 17, 2026SaveLearn
Symmetric mass generation and the Nielsen-Ninomiya theoremThe symmetric mass generation (SMG) approach to the construction of lattice chiral gauge theories attempts to use interactions to render mirror fermions massive without symmetry breaking, to obtain…Maarten Golterman, Yigal Shamir·Mar 16, 2026SaveLearn
Electric Polarizability of Charged Pions from nHYP Four-Point FunctionsUnderstanding a hadron's electric and magnetic polarizabilities allows one to access internal structural information. Traditionally, the external field two-point function method has been used to…Benjamin Luke, Sudip Shiwakoti, Shayan Nadeem et al.·Mar 16, 2026SaveLearn
Wilson loops with oppositely oriented plaquettes as a probe of center vortex structureWe study Wilson loops with a nontrivial orientation structure in lattice gauge theory as a probe of the center vortex picture. The observable is a single Wilson loop containing two plaquettes with…Ji-Chong Yang, Xiang-Ning Li, Zhan Zhao·Mar 14, 2026SaveLearn
Update on the computation of the quenched SU(6) Yang-Mills lattice spectrumWe report on our continued efforts to measure the glueball and meson spectra in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory and QCD with the aim of extrapolating to the large-N limit. In particular, we document the…Andrea Falzetti, Matteo Lombardi, Mauro Lucio Papinutto et al.·Mar 13, 2026SaveLearn
Recent update of nucleon axial-vector charge with the PACS10 superfine latticeWe update the results of the nucleon axial-vector charge with the third ensemble of the PACS10 gauge configurations, which are generated by the PACS Collaboration at the physical point with lattice…Masato Nagatsuka, Yasumichi Aoki, Ken-Ichi Ishikawa et al.·Mar 13, 2026SaveLearn
Factorizing the position-space photon propagator in QED corrections to lattice QCD correlatorsElectromagnetic corrections to the n-point functions of lattice QCD can be evaluated using a position-space photon propagator defined in infinite volume. Here we address the computational challenge…Dominik Erb, Harvey B. Meyer, Konstantin Ottnad·Mar 13, 2026SaveLearn
Weak and Higgs physics from the latticeThe manifestly gauge-invariant and non-perturbatively complete lattice formulation of the weak interactions and the Brout-Englert-Higgs effect is connected to the usual perturbative description in…Sofie Martins, Patrick Jenny, Axel Maas et al.·Mar 13, 2026SaveLearn
Normalizing-flow-based density of states for (1+1)D U(1) lattice gauge theory with a θ-termA normalizing-flow-based implementation of the density-of-states approach has recently been used to successfully reconstruct the partition function of (1+1)D scalar lattice field theory. In this…Simran Singh, Lena Funcke·Mar 12, 2026SaveLearn
D-meson Nucleon Scattering from Lattice QCD at the Physical PointWe report the first lattice QCD study of the s-wave scattering of the D-meson and the nucleon at the physical point, utilizing (2+1)-flavor configurations generated by the HAL QCD…Wren Yamada, Yan Lyu, Kotaro Murakami et al.·Mar 12, 2026SaveLearn
Electromagnetic pion mass splitting using PV-regulated photon propagatorSeveral hadronic observables are nowadays computed in lattice QCD with a sub-percent precision which requires the inclusion of strong isospin-breaking and electromagnetic effects. Most of the methods…Alessandro De Santis, Dominik Erb, Harvey B. Meyer·Mar 11, 2026SaveLearn
Topological structure of the entanglement radius of Yang-Mills flux tubesWe expand on recent work arXiv:2601.17199 demonstrating the existence of a novel entanglement radius 0 characterizing flux tube entanglement entropy (FTE2) in (2+1)D Yang-Mills theory. This…Rocco Amorosso, Sergey Syritsyn, Raju Venugopalan·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Phase diagram of 4D SU(3) Yang-Mills theory at θ=π via imaginary theta simulationsIt has been speculated that the CP symmetry of 4D SU(3) Yang-Mills theory at θ=π is spontaneously broken in the confined phase, and it is recovered precisely at the deconfining temperature.…Akira Matsumoto, Mitsuaki Hirasawa, Jun Nishimura et al.·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
How to formulate the Z8 topological invariant of Majorana fermion on the latticeTopological invariants and their associated anomalies have played a crucial role in understanding low-energy phenomena in quantum field theories. In lattice gauge theory, the standard…Sho Araki, Hidenori Fukaya, Tetsuya Onogi et al.·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Non-perturbative determination of the QCD Equation of State up to the electroweak scaleThe QCD Equation of State with Nf=3 massless quark flavours is determined non-perturbatively over a broad range of temperatures, extending from the electroweak scale down to 3 GeV, and smoothly…Michele Pepe·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Lattice Determination of the Baryon Junction Mass in (2+1) DimensionsThis contribution investigates baryonic flux tube configurations in SU(3) Yang--Mills theory in (2+1) dimensions. Leveraging recent next-to-leading-order results within the Effective String…Dario Panfalone, Michele Caselle, Nicodemo Magnoli et al.·Mar 9, 2026SaveLearn
General Hamiltonian Approach to the N-Body Finite-Volume Formalism: Extracting the ω Resonance Parameters from Lattice QCDWe present a nonperturbative Hamiltonian framework (NPHF) to address the general N-body problem. This framework rigorously connects finite-volume spectra from lattice QCD to scattering observables…Kang Yu, Derek B. Leinweber, Anthony W. Thomas et al.·Mar 7, 2026SaveLearn
Studying the QCD phase diagram using pressure derivatives from lattice QCDWe summarize the application of derivatives of the QCD pressure, calculated within the framework of lattice QCD, in constructing observables that probe aspects of the QCD phase diagram at physical…Sipaz Sharma·Mar 7, 2026SaveLearn
Higher-order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon g-2 from lattice QCDWe present the first lattice QCD calculation of the next-to-leading order hadronic vacuum polarization contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment with sub-percent precision. We employ the…Arnau Beltran, Alessandro Conigli, Simon Kuberski et al.·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Masses of the conjectured H-dibaryon for different channels at different temperaturesWe present a lattice QCD spectroscopy study of the conjectured H dibaryon for 5 different channels at nine different temperatures. The H dibaryon operator is constructed with five different channels…Liang-Kai Wu, Xi-Rui Zhao, Ning Li et al.·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
A Lattice QCD study of p- scattering in continuum and chiral limitsWe present a first systematic study of I=1/2 proton- (p-) scattering from lattice QCD, using seven sets of (2+1)-flavor lattice ensembles with pion masses spanning 135-317 MeV…Hang Liu, Liuming Liu, Jin-Xin Tan et al.·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Hamiltonian Lattice QED3 with One and Two Flavors of Wilson Fermions: Topological Structure and ResponseThe quantum simulation of topological phases in (2+1)D quantum electrodynamics with Wilson fermions provides a promising route toward realizing topological phenomena in near-term lattice experiments.…Sriram Bharadwaj, Emil Rosanowski, Simran Singh et al.·Mar 5, 2026SaveLearn
Intrinsic Width of the flux tube in 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills theoriesWe present our updated results on the intrinsic width of the profile of the flux tube in (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills theory with SU(2) gauge group. We identify the intrinsic width as the…Lorenzo Verzichelli, Michele Caselle, Elia Cellini et al.·Mar 5, 2026SaveLearn
Discretisation effects of gradient flows in QCD-like theories on the latticeRecent software advances now allow large-scale lattice studies of the Corrigan--Ramond large-NC limit of Yang-Mills theory coupled with a two-index antisymmetric fermion, providing a path to SUSY…Pietro Butti, Michele Della Morte, Benjamin Jäger et al.·Mar 5, 2026SaveLearn
Constrained Symplectic Quantization: Disclosing the Deterministic Framework Behind Quantum MechanicsSymplectic quantization is a functional approach to quantum field theory that allows sampling of quantum fluctuations directly in Minkowski space time by means of a generalized Hamiltonian dynamics…Martina Giachello, Francesco Scardino, Giacomo Gradenigo·Mar 5, 2026SaveLearn