Daniel L. Jafferis

3.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Daniel L. Jafferis is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel L. Jafferis has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 19 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 17 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Daniel L. Jafferis's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (25 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (19 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (13 papers). Daniel L. Jafferis is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (25 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (19 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (13 papers). Daniel L. Jafferis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Netherlands. Daniel L. Jafferis's co-authors include Ping Gao, Silviu S. Pufu, S. Josephine Suh, Aron C. Wall, Igor R. Klebanov, Benjamin R. Safdi, Aitor Lewkowycz, Juan Maldacena, David K. Kolchmeyer and Oscar Varela and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Daniel L. Jafferis

29 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Towards the F-theorem: $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ field theories... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2016 2017 100 200 300
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. Towards the F-theorem: $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ field theories on the three-sphere
    2011 300 citations Daniel L. Jafferis et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  2. Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy
    2016 275 citations Daniel L. Jafferis, Aitor Lewkowycz et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  3. Traversable wormholes via a double trace deformation
    2017 266 citations Ping Gao, Daniel L. Jafferis et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel L. Jafferis United States 21 1.4k 1.0k 807 355 165 30 1.7k
Alexander Maloney Canada 26 2.0k 1.4× 1.7k 1.7× 1.1k 1.3× 330 0.9× 146 0.9× 45 2.3k
Daniel Harlow United States 19 2.0k 1.4× 1.6k 1.6× 1.2k 1.5× 487 1.4× 117 0.7× 25 2.3k
Vladimir Rosenhaus United States 18 964 0.7× 581 0.6× 581 0.7× 393 1.1× 114 0.7× 29 1.3k
Alexander Zhiboedov United States 22 1.8k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 546 0.7× 171 0.5× 123 0.7× 37 2.1k
Xi Dong United States 20 1.7k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 952 1.2× 468 1.3× 70 0.4× 42 2.0k
João Penedones Switzerland 26 1.7k 1.2× 935 0.9× 524 0.6× 151 0.4× 214 1.3× 46 1.9k
Albion Lawrence United States 23 2.0k 1.4× 1.5k 1.5× 843 1.0× 205 0.6× 199 1.2× 42 2.1k
Giuseppe Policastro France 17 2.2k 1.6× 1.6k 1.5× 570 0.7× 440 1.2× 60 0.4× 36 2.4k
Masanori Hanada Japan 24 1.4k 1.0× 634 0.6× 583 0.7× 193 0.5× 113 0.7× 90 1.5k
Yu Nakayama Japan 23 1.5k 1.1× 872 0.9× 552 0.7× 258 0.7× 217 1.3× 113 1.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2025). 3d gravity as a random ensemble. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(2). 9 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2025). Open-closed 3d gravity as a random ensemble. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(10).
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2024). Thermal Bekenstein-Hawking entropy from the worldsheet. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(5). 4 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2024). Double winding condensate CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(5). 2 indexed citations
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Belin, Alexandre, et al.. (2024). Approximate CFTs and random tensor models. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(9). 24 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2023). Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity with matter, generalized eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, and random matrices. Physical review. D. 108(6). 44 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2023). Matrix Models for Eigenstate Thermalization. Physical Review X. 13(3). 18 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2023). A duality in string theory on AdS3. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(7). 8 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., Alexander Zlokapa, Joseph Lykken, et al.. (2022). Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor. Nature. 612(7938). 51–55. 80 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2022). Stringy ER = EPR. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(10). 17 indexed citations
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Gao, Ping, Daniel L. Jafferis, & David K. Kolchmeyer. (2022). An effective matrix model for dynamical end of the world branes in Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(1). 35 indexed citations
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Gao, Ping & Daniel L. Jafferis. (2021). A traversable wormhole teleportation protocol in the SYK model. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(7). 33 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., et al.. (2018). Conformal bootstrap at large charge. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(5). 56 indexed citations
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Gao, Ping, Daniel L. Jafferis, & Aron C. Wall. (2017). Traversable wormholes via a double trace deformation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(12). 266 indexed citations breakdown →
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Córdova, Clay & Daniel L. Jafferis. (2017). Toda theory from six dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(12). 19 indexed citations
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Jafferis, Daniel L., Aitor Lewkowycz, Juan Maldacena, & S. Josephine Suh. (2016). Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(6). 275 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jafferis, Daniel L. & S. Josephine Suh. (2016). The gravity duals of modular Hamiltonians. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(9). 60 indexed citations
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Guarino, Adolfo, Daniel L. Jafferis, & Oscar Varela. (2015). String Theory Origin of DyonicN=8Supergravity and Its Chern-Simons Duals. Physical Review Letters. 115(9). 91601–91601. 91 indexed citations
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Gaiotto, Davide & Daniel L. Jafferis. (2012). Notes on adding D6 branes wrapping $$ \mathbb{R}\mathbb{P} $$ 3 in AdS4 × $$ \mathbb{C}\mathbb{P} $$ 3. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012(11). 37 indexed citations
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Andriyash, Evgeny, Frederik Denef, Daniel L. Jafferis, & Gregory W. Moore. (2012). Wall-crossing from supersymmetric galaxies. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012(1). 29 indexed citations

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