David Simmons–Duffin

6.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
43 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

David Simmons–Duffin is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Simmons–Duffin has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 9 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in David Simmons–Duffin's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (12 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (12 papers). David Simmons–Duffin is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (12 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (12 papers). David Simmons–Duffin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. David Simmons–Duffin's co-authors include David Poland, Alessandro Vichi, Filip Kos, Slava Rychkov, Sheer El-Showk, Miguel F. Paulos, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Jared Kaplan, Petr Kravchuk and Simon Caron-Huot and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

David Simmons–Duffin

42 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Solving the 3D Ising model with the conformal bootstrap 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2014 2016 2013 2015 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. Solving the 3D Ising model with the conformal bootstrap
    2012 398 citations Sheer El-Showk, Miguel F. Paulos et al. profile →
  2. Solving the 3d Ising Model with the Conformal Bootstrap II. $$c$$ c -Minimization and Precise Critical Exponents
    2014 311 citations Sheer El-Showk, Miguel F. Paulos et al. Journal of Statistical Physics profile →
  3. Precision islands in the Ising and O(N ) models
    2016 285 citations Filip Kos, David Poland et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  4. The analytic bootstrap and AdS superhorizon locality
    2013 273 citations David Poland, David Simmons–Duffin et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  5. A semidefinite program solver for the conformal bootstrap
    2015 246 citations David Simmons–Duffin Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  6. Sharp boundaries for the swampland
    2021 126 citations Simon Caron-Huot, David Simmons–Duffin et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  7. Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity
    2023 77 citations Simon Caron-Huot, Yue-Zhou Li et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

Peers

David Simmons–Duffin
David Poland United States
Alessandro Vichi Switzerland
Slava Rychkov France
Miguel F. Paulos France
P.H. Damgaard Denmark
Leonardo Rastelli United States
Balt C. van Rees United States
Vincent Rivasseau France
Eliezer Rabinovici Israel
Bergfinnur Durhuus Denmark
David Poland United States
David Simmons–Duffin
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Simmons–Duffin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xi, Beidou, et al.. (2026). Quantum Scaling in Energy Correlators beyond the Confinement Transition. Physical Review Letters. 136(8). 81903–81903.
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Simmons–Duffin, David, et al.. (2025). Skydiving to bootstrap islands. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(11). 2 indexed citations
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Kravchuk, Petr, et al.. (2025). Bootstrapping the 3d Ising stress tensor. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 14 indexed citations
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Simmons–Duffin, David, et al.. (2025). Multitwist Trajectories and Decoupling Zeros in Conformal Field Theory. Physical Review Letters. 134(1). 11602–11602. 4 indexed citations
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Simmons–Duffin, David, et al.. (2024). Light-ray wave functions and integrability. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(10). 4 indexed citations
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Benjamin, Nathan, et al.. (2024). Universal asymptotics for high energy CFT data. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(3). 30 indexed citations
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Benjamin, Nathan, et al.. (2024). Angular fractals in thermal QFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(11). 5 indexed citations
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Iliesiu, Luca V., et al.. (2023). The Gross-Neveu-Yukawa archipelago. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 39 indexed citations
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Simmons–Duffin, David, et al.. (2023). Three-point energy correlators and the celestial block expansion. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 24 indexed citations
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Caron-Huot, Simon, Yue-Zhou Li, Julio Parra-Martinez, & David Simmons–Duffin. (2023). Causality constraints on corrections to Einstein gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(5). 77 indexed citations breakdown →
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Simmons–Duffin, David. (2022). A spacetime derivation of the Lorentzian OPE inversion formula. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 78 indexed citations
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Simmons–Duffin, David. (2022). The lightcone bootstrap and the spectrum of the 3d Ising CFT. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 31 indexed citations
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Chester, Shai M., Walter Landry, Junyu Liu, et al.. (2021). Bootstrapping Heisenberg magnets and their cubic instability. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 69 indexed citations
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Liu, Junyu, David O. Meltzer, David Poland, & David Simmons–Duffin. (2020). The Lorentzian inversion formula and the spectrum of the 3d O(2) CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020(9). 34 indexed citations
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Rychkov, Slava, David Simmons–Duffin, & Bernardo Zan. (2017). Non-gaussianity of the critical 3d Ising model. SciPost Physics. 2(1). 12 indexed citations
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Simmons–Duffin, David. (2016). The Conformal Bootstrap. 1–74. 175 indexed citations
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Kos, Filip, David Poland, David Simmons–Duffin, & Alessandro Vichi. (2016). Precision islands in the Ising and O(N ) models. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(8). 285 indexed citations breakdown →
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El-Showk, Sheer, Miguel F. Paulos, David Poland, et al.. (2014). Conformal Field Theories in Fractional Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 112(14). 141601–141601. 90 indexed citations
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El-Showk, Sheer, Miguel F. Paulos, David Poland, et al.. (2014). Solving the 3d Ising Model with the Conformal Bootstrap II. $$c$$ c -Minimization and Precise Critical Exponents. Journal of Statistical Physics. 157(4-5). 869–914. 311 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chien, Yang-Ting, Matthew D. Schwartz, David Simmons–Duffin, & Iain W. Stewart. (2011). Jet Physics from Static Charges in AdS. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 20 indexed citations

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