Lárus Thorlacius

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Lárus Thorlacius is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lárus Thorlacius has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 42 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 20 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Lárus Thorlacius's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (50 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (37 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (19 papers). Lárus Thorlacius is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (50 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (37 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (19 papers). Lárus Thorlacius collaborates with scholars based in United States, Iceland and Sweden. Lárus Thorlacius's co-authors include Leonard Susskind, J. Uglum, Jorge G. Russo, David A. Lowe, Ulf Danielsson, Joseph Polchinski, Curtis G. Callan, Ville Keränen, Igor R. Klebanov and Esko Keski-Vakkuri and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Lárus Thorlacius

59 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

The stretched horizon and black hole complementarity 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 100 200 300 400 500
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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. The stretched horizon and black hole complementarity
    1993 584 citations Leonard Susskind, Lárus Thorlacius et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →

Peers

Lárus Thorlacius
Esko Keski-Vakkuri Finland
Daniel Kabat United States
Giuseppe Policastro France
Ahmed Almheiri United States
Aron C. Wall United States
Ben Craps Belgium
Sergey N. Solodukhin France
Rabin Banerjee India
Robert Bluhm United States
S. Randjbar‐Daemi Italy
Esko Keski-Vakkuri Finland
Lárus Thorlacius
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lárus Thorlacius

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lowe, David A. & Lárus Thorlacius. (2025). Effective field theory description of Hawking radiation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(11).
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Thorlacius, Lárus, et al.. (2025). Non-Perturbative Corrections to Charged Black Hole Evaporation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(4). 2 indexed citations
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Keränen, Ville & Lárus Thorlacius. (2015). HOLOGRAPHIC GEOMETRIES FOR CONDENSED MATTER APPLICATIONS. 902–921. 1 indexed citations
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Balatsky, Alexander V., Sven Bjarke Gudnason, Yaron Kedem, et al.. (2015). Classical and quantum temperature fluctuations via holography. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(1).
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Puletti, Valentina Giangreco M., et al.. (2012). Friedel oscillations in holographic metals. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012(1). 11 indexed citations
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Keränen, Ville & Lárus Thorlacius. (2012). Thermal correlators in holographic models with Lifshitz scaling. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 29(19). 194009–194009. 22 indexed citations
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Lowe, David A. & Lárus Thorlacius. (2006). Remarks on the black hole information problem. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 73(10). 24 indexed citations
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Thorlacius, Lárus. (2006). Cosmic censorship inside black holes. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Jónsson, Thórdur, et al.. (2003). The Seiberg-Witten map on the fuzzy sphere. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003(12). 1–1. 5 indexed citations
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Thorlacius, Lárus. (2000). M-Theory and Quantum Geometry. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5 indexed citations
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Thorlacius, Lárus. (1995). Black Hole Complementarity. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 439. 9 indexed citations
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Giddings, Steven B. & Lárus Thorlacius. (1994). Introduction to the Information Problem. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 430–432. 1 indexed citations
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Polchinski, Joseph & Lárus Thorlacius. (1994). Free fermion representation of a boundary conformal field theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 50(2). R622–R626. 83 indexed citations
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Strominger, Andrew & Lárus Thorlacius. (1994). Universality and scaling at the onset of quantum black hole formation. Physical Review Letters. 72(11). 1584–1587. 25 indexed citations
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Russo, Jorge G., Leonard Susskind, & Lárus Thorlacius. (1992). End point of Hawking radiation. RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya). 213 indexed citations
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Susskind, Leonard, et al.. (1991). Quantum Cosmology on the Worldsheet. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 225–244. 2 indexed citations
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Susskind, Leonard, et al.. (1991). Two-dimensional quantum cosmology. Nuclear Physics B. 363(1). 132–162. 28 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G. & Lárus Thorlacius. (1990). Open string theory as dissipative quantum mechanics. Nuclear Physics B. 329(1). 117–138. 44 indexed citations
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Thorlacius, Lárus. (1989). String Theory on the Edge.. PhDT. 2 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G. & Lárus Thorlacius. (1989). Using reparametrization invariance to define vacuum infinities in string path integrals. Nuclear Physics B. 319(1). 133–154. 10 indexed citations

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