Brian Swingle

8.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
121 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Brian Swingle is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Swingle has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 57 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 43 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Brian Swingle's work include Quantum many-body systems (74 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (42 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers). Brian Swingle is often cited by papers focused on Quantum many-body systems (74 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (42 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers). Brian Swingle collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Brian Swingle's co-authors include Daniel A. Roberts, Leonard Susskind, Adam R. Brown, Ying Zhao, Debanjan Chowdhury, Gregory Bentsen, T. Senthil, Subir Sachdev, Patrick Hayden and Liza Huijse and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and Nature Physics.

In The Last Decade

Brian Swingle

118 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action? 2012 2026 2016 2021 2016 2012 2016 2016 2024 100 200 300 400
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. Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action?
    2016 491 citations Adam R. Brown, Leonard Susskind et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Entanglement renormalization and holography
    2012 461 citations Brian Swingle profile →
  3. Complexity, action, and black holes
    2016 388 citations Adam R. Brown, Leonard Susskind et al. Physical review. D profile →
  4. Measuring the scrambling of quantum information
    2016 329 citations Brian Swingle, Gregory Bentsen et al. profile →
  5. Scrambling Dynamics and Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators in Quantum Many-Body Systems
    2024 53 citations Shenglong Xu, Brian Swingle PRX Quantum profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian Swingle United States 34 2.9k 2.3k 2.1k 1.8k 1.1k 121 4.9k
Douglas Stanford United States 18 3.3k 1.2× 3.5k 1.5× 3.0k 1.4× 2.5k 1.4× 991 0.9× 24 6.4k
José I. Latorre Spain 42 4.5k 1.6× 4.3k 1.9× 1.0k 0.5× 644 0.4× 2.9k 2.7× 118 8.9k
Daniel A. Roberts United States 10 1.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 727 0.7× 16 2.6k
Tadashi Takayanagi Japan 41 2.5k 0.9× 7.0k 3.0× 3.8k 1.8× 5.8k 3.2× 428 0.4× 118 8.0k
Germán Sierra Spain 38 2.3k 0.8× 2.0k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 936 0.5× 431 0.4× 154 4.8k
Henri Verschelde Belgium 30 1.5k 0.5× 2.0k 0.9× 536 0.3× 339 0.2× 734 0.7× 116 3.8k
Patrick Hayden United States 28 2.7k 0.9× 691 0.3× 927 0.4× 568 0.3× 2.3k 2.2× 58 3.7k
Horacio Casini Argentina 27 1.5k 0.5× 2.7k 1.2× 1.5k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 285 0.3× 68 3.5k
Antonello Scardicchio Italy 33 2.5k 0.9× 264 0.1× 1.4k 0.7× 336 0.2× 454 0.4× 84 3.0k
Ingemar Bengtsson Sweden 27 2.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 762 0.4× 2.4k 2.3× 104 4.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Swingle

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Swingle

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rath, Pratik, et al.. (2025). The baby universe is fine and the CFT knows it: on holography for closed universes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(12).
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Cao, ChunJun, et al.. (2025). Discovery of optimal quantum codes via reinforcement learning. Physical Review Applied. 23(3). 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Shenglong & Brian Swingle. (2024). Scrambling Dynamics and Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators in Quantum Many-Body Systems. PRX Quantum. 5(1). 53 indexed citations breakdown →
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Swingle, Brian, et al.. (2024). NoRA: A Tensor Network Ansatz for Volume-Law Entangled Equilibrium States of Highly Connected Hamiltonians. Quantum. 8. 1362–1362. 6 indexed citations
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White, Christopher D., et al.. (2023). Open-system spin transport and operator weight dissipation in spin chains. Physical review. B.. 107(11). 7 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian, et al.. (2023). Cosmology from random entanglement. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(11). 21 indexed citations
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Jian, Shao-Kai, et al.. (2023). Holographic measurement in CFT thermofield doubles. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(7). 10 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian, et al.. (2023). Accelerating cosmology from Λ < 0 gravitational effective field theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(5). 10 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian, et al.. (2023). Accelerating Cosmology from a Holographic Wormhole. Physical Review Letters. 130(22). 221601–221601. 18 indexed citations
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Jian, Shao-Kai, et al.. (2023). Holographic measurement and quantum teleportation in the SYK thermofield double. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 15 indexed citations
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Nezami, Sepehr, Henry W. Lin, Adam R. Brown, et al.. (2023). Quantum Gravity in the Lab. II. Teleportation by Size and Traversable Wormholes. PRX Quantum. 4(1). 31 indexed citations
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Shapoval, I., et al.. (2023). Towards Quantum Gravity in the Lab on Quantum Processors. Quantum. 7. 1138–1138. 7 indexed citations
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Bentsen, Gregory, et al.. (2022). Holographic measurement and bulk teleportation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(12). 23 indexed citations
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Bentsen, Gregory, et al.. (2021). Measurement-induced purification in large-N hybrid Brownian circuits. Physical review. B.. 104(9). 34 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian, et al.. (2021). Holographic boundary states and dimensionally reduced braneworld spacetimes. Physical review. D. 104(4). 14 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian, et al.. (2020). Cosmology at the end of the world. Nature Physics. 16(8). 881–886. 44 indexed citations
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Xu, Shenglong, et al.. (2018). Scrambling dynamics across a thermalization-localization quantum phase transition. arXiv (Cornell University). 35 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian & Debanjan Chowdhury. (2017). Onset of many-body chaos in the O(N) model. Physical Review Letters. 13 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian. (2012). Conformal field theory approach to Fermi liquids and other highly entangled states. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Swingle, Brian & T. Senthil. (2012). Structure of entanglement at deconfined quantum critical points. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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