Daniel Harlow

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
25 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Daniel Harlow is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Harlow has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 17 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Daniel Harlow's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (19 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (16 papers). Daniel Harlow is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (19 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (16 papers). Daniel Harlow collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Belgium. Daniel Harlow's co-authors include Xi Dong, Ahmed Almheiri, Aron C. Wall, Hirosi Ooguri, Jonathan S. Maltz, Edward Witten, Ben Heidenreich, Chris Akers, Netta Engelhardt and Tom Rudelius and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Harlow

23 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Bulk locality and quantum error correction in AdS/CFT 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2016 2023 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. Bulk locality and quantum error correction in AdS/CFT
    2015 421 citations Xi Dong, Daniel Harlow et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  2. Reconstruction of Bulk Operators within the Entanglement Wedge in Gauge-Gravity Duality
    2016 289 citations Xi Dong, Daniel Harlow et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Weak gravity conjecture
    2023 109 citations Daniel Harlow, Ben Heidenreich et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →

Peers

Daniel Harlow
Xi Dong United States
Ahmed Almheiri United States
Aninda Sinha India
Aron C. Wall United States
Matthew Headrick United States
Daniel L. Jafferis United States
Alexander Maloney Canada
Marina Huerta Argentina
Mark Van Raamsdonk Canada
G. Kunstatter Canada
Xi Dong United States
Daniel Harlow
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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Harlow

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Harlow

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Harlow, Daniel, et al.. (2026). Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2026(2).
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Harlow, Daniel & Tokiro Numasawa. (2026). Gauging spacetime inversions in quantum gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2026(1).
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Harlow, Daniel. (2023). Covariant phase space with boundaries. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 60 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel, Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, & Tom Rudelius. (2023). Weak gravity conjecture. Reviews of Modern Physics. 95(3). 109 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harlow, Daniel & Jie-qiang Wu. (2022). Algebra of diffeomorphism-invariant observables in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(5). 97–97. 29 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel & Hirosi Ooguri. (2022). A universal formula for the density of states in theories with finite-group symmetry. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 39(13). 134003–134003. 19 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel, Ben Heidenreich, Matthew Reece, & Tom Rudelius. (2022). The Weak Gravity Conjecture: A Review. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel & Edgar Shaghoulian. (2021). Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity, and the black hole information problem. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(4). 56 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel & Edgar Shaghoulian. (2021). Euclidean gravity and holography. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 30(14). 2 indexed citations
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Akers, Chris, Netta Engelhardt, & Daniel Harlow. (2020). Simple holographic models of black hole evaporation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020(8). 63 indexed citations
11.
Harlow, Daniel. (2020). Making Movies Without Losing Money. 1 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel & Hirosi Ooguri. (2019). Constraints on Symmetries from Holography. Physical Review Letters. 122(19). 191601–191601. 129 indexed citations
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Dong, Xi, Daniel Harlow, & Donald Marolf. (2019). Flat entanglement spectra in fixed-area states of quantum gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019(10). 86 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel. (2018). TASI Lectures on the Emergence of Bulk Physics in AdS/CFT. 2–2. 82 indexed citations
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Dong, Xi, Daniel Harlow, & Aron C. Wall. (2016). Reconstruction of Bulk Operators within the Entanglement Wedge in Gauge-Gravity Duality. Physical Review Letters. 117(2). 21601–21601. 289 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harlow, Daniel. (2016). Wormholes, emergent gauge fields, and the weak gravity conjecture. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(1). 143 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel. (2016). Jerusalem lectures on black holes and quantum information. Reviews of Modern Physics. 88(1). 222 indexed citations
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Anninos, Dionysios, Frederik Denef, & Daniel Harlow. (2013). Wave function of Vasiliev’s universe: A few slices thereof. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(8). 71 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel, Jonathan S. Maltz, & Edward Witten. (2011). Analytic continuation of Liouville theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011(12). 178 indexed citations
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Harlow, Daniel, et al.. (2011). Analytic Coleman-De Luccia Geometries. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 2 indexed citations

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