MIT Center for Theoretical Physics – a Leinweber Institute

A research center of the Department of Physics and an affiliate of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science.

Our Research

We are a unified research and teaching center focused on fundamental physics. Our activities range from string theory and cosmology at the highest energies down through unification and beyond-the-standard-model physics, through the standard model, to QCD, hadrons, quark matter, and nuclei at the low energy scale. Theoretical research in the Center complements and connects to experimental work by the Nuclear and Particle Experiment division in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, theoretical work in other divisions---including condensed matter theory, astrophysics theory, and theoretical work in the physics of living systems group---and quantum information science across MIT.    

Recent Publications

  • Parity anomaly from LSM: exact valley symmetries on the lattice
    Salvatore D. Pace, Minho Luke Kim, Arkya Chatterjee and Shu-Heng Shao
    May 7, 2025, arXiv:2505.04684
    Abstract: (click to show)
  • High-redshift Millennium and Astrid galaxies in effective field theory at the field level
    James M. Sullivan, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Yueying Ni, Sownak Bose et. al.
    May 6, 2025, arXiv:2505.03626
    Abstract: (click to show)
  • Holographic Heavy Quark Energy Loss in the Hybrid Model
    Jean F. Du Plessis, Daniel Pablos and Krishna Rajagopal
    May 1, 2025, arXiv:2505.00863
    Abstract: (click to show)
  • A Universal Equilibration Condition for Heavy Quarks
    Krishna Rajagopal, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld and Urs Achim Wiedemann
    April 29, 2025, arXiv:2504.21139
    Abstract: (click to show)