Benjamin Withers

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 747 citations indexed

About

Benjamin Withers is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Withers has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 747 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 28 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Withers's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (29 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (28 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (9 papers). Benjamin Withers is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (29 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (28 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (9 papers). Benjamin Withers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Benjamin Withers's co-authors include Tomás Andrade, Julian Sonner, Toby Wiseman, Michał P. Heller, Ruth Gregory, Ian G. Moss, Michał Spaliński, Christiana Pantelidou, Carlo Contaldi and Jerome P. Gauntlett and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Withers

34 papers receiving 734 citations

Hit Papers

A simple holographic model of momentum relaxation 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 50 100 150 200 250
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A simple holographic model of momentum relaxation
    2014 268 citations Tomás Andrade, Benjamin Withers Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin Withers United Kingdom 14 659 571 228 176 71 34 747
Matthew Lippert United States 15 496 0.8× 416 0.7× 171 0.8× 163 0.9× 60 0.8× 29 615
Tomás Andrade United Kingdom 15 583 0.9× 573 1.0× 199 0.9× 207 1.2× 75 1.1× 36 710
Niko Jokela Finland 16 632 1.0× 553 1.0× 161 0.7× 138 0.8× 48 0.7× 62 792
Martin Ammon Germany 19 1.1k 1.6× 881 1.5× 276 1.2× 441 2.5× 70 1.0× 29 1.2k
Chao Niu China 17 762 1.2× 713 1.2× 202 0.9× 311 1.8× 45 0.6× 35 836
Riccardo Penco United States 16 604 0.9× 603 1.1× 151 0.7× 193 1.1× 32 0.5× 28 789
M. B. Paranjape Canada 15 377 0.6× 249 0.4× 253 1.1× 173 1.0× 110 1.5× 67 625
Paolo Cea Italy 22 1.2k 1.8× 452 0.8× 251 1.1× 88 0.5× 171 2.4× 113 1.5k
Ajit M. Srivastava India 15 360 0.5× 242 0.4× 115 0.5× 91 0.5× 55 0.8× 59 526
Henrique Boschi-Filho Brazil 20 871 1.3× 448 0.8× 218 1.0× 229 1.3× 28 0.4× 78 1.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pantelidou, Christiana, et al.. (2025). Transients in black hole perturbation theory. Frontiers in Physics. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Pantelidou, Christiana, et al.. (2025). Non-modal effects in black hole perturbation theory: transient superradiance. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(8). 4 indexed citations
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Withers, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). Transient dynamics of quasinormal mode sums. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(10). 16 indexed citations
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Heller, Michał P., et al.. (2024). The space of transport coefficients allowed by causality. Nature Physics. 20(12). 1948–1954. 9 indexed citations
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Pantelidou, Christiana & Benjamin Withers. (2024). Black hole excited states from broken translations in Euclidean time. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(1). 2 indexed citations
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Skenderis, Kostas, et al.. (2024). The ambient space formalism. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(5). 12 indexed citations
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Skenderis, Kostas, et al.. (2023). Embedding formalism for CFTs in general states on curved backgrounds. Physical review. D. 107(6). 15 indexed citations
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Pantelidou, Christiana & Benjamin Withers. (2023). Thermal three-point functions from holographic Schwinger-Keldysh contours. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(4). 13 indexed citations
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Heller, Michał P., et al.. (2023). Rigorous Bounds on Transport from Causality. Physical Review Letters. 130(26). 261601–261601. 31 indexed citations
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Heller, Michał P., et al.. (2022). Relativistic Hydrodynamics: A Singulant Perspective. Physical Review X. 12(4). 11 indexed citations
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Heller, Michał P., et al.. (2021). Hydrodynamic gradient expansion in linear response theory. Physical review. D. 104(6). 29 indexed citations
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Sonner, Julian & Benjamin Withers. (2019). Linear gravity from conformal symmetry. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 36(8). 85011–85011. 1 indexed citations
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Andrade, Tomás, Christiana Pantelidou, & Benjamin Withers. (2018). Large D holography with metric deformations. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 11 indexed citations
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Sonner, Julian & Benjamin Withers. (2017). Universal Spatial Structure of Nonequilibrium Steady States. Physical Review Letters. 119(16). 161603–161603. 11 indexed citations
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Bakas, Ioannis, Kostas Skenderis, & Benjamin Withers. (2016). Self-similar equilibration of strongly interacting systems from holography. Physical review. D. 93(10). 6 indexed citations
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Gregory, Ruth, Ian G. Moss, & Benjamin Withers. (2014). . Durham Research Online (Durham University). 51 indexed citations
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Withers, Benjamin. (2014). Holographic checkerboards. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(9). 35 indexed citations
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Donos, Aristomenis, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Julian Sonner, & Benjamin Withers. (2013). Competing orders in M-theory: superfluids, stripes and metamagnetism. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 43 indexed citations
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Rangamani, Mukund & Benjamin Withers. (2011). Fermionic probes of local quantum criticality in one dimension. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(8). 2 indexed citations
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Withers, Benjamin & H. R. Glyde. (2007). Quantum Momentum Distributions. Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 147(5-6). 633–643. 5 indexed citations

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