Leonard Susskind

32.6k total citations · 14 hit papers
151 papers, 18.5k citations indexed

About

Leonard Susskind 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, Leonard Susskind has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 18.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 62 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Leonard Susskind's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (83 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (61 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (52 papers). Leonard Susskind is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (83 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (61 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (52 papers). Leonard Susskind collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Spain. Leonard Susskind's co-authors include John B. Kogut, Savas Dimopoulos, J. Uglum, Lárus Thorlacius, Douglas Stanford, Adam R. Brown, Daniel A. Roberts, Edward Farhi, Ying Zhao and Nicolaos Toumbas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Leonard Susskind

148 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

The world as a hologram 1964 2026 1984 2005 1995 1975 1979 1979 1993 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. The world as a hologram
    1995 2.2k citations Leonard Susskind profile →
  2. Hamiltonian formulation of Wilson's lattice gauge theories
    1975 1.3k citations Leonard Susskind et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  3. Dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the Weinberg-Salam theory
    1979 1.1k citations Leonard Susskind Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  4. Mass without scalars
    1979 610 citations Savas Dimopoulos, Leonard Susskind profile →
  5. 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 →
  6. Quantum mechanical phase and time operator
    1964 539 citations Leonard Susskind et al. profile →
  7. Technicolour
    1981 493 citations Leonard Susskind et al. profile →
  8. Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action?
    2016 491 citations Adam R. Brown, Leonard Susskind et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  9. Black hole entropy in canonical quantum gravity and superstring theory
    1994 459 citations Leonard Susskind, J. Uglum Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  10. Complexity and shock wave geometries
    2014 455 citations Leonard Susskind et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  11. Computational complexity and black hole horizons
    2016 440 citations Leonard Susskind profile →
  12. Charge shielding and quark confinement in the massive schwinger model
    1975 425 citations Leonard Susskind et al. profile →
  13. Complexity, action, and black holes
    2016 388 citations Adam R. Brown, Leonard Susskind et al. profile →
  14. Localized shocks
    2015 387 citations Leonard Susskind et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

Peers

Leonard Susskind
Gerard ’t Hooft Netherlands
Sidney Coleman United States
Julian Schwinger United States
T. W. B. Kibble United Kingdom
Stephen H. Shenker United States
Joseph Polchinski United States
R. Jackiw United States
G. Veneziano Switzerland
Stephen L. Adler United States
Frank Wilczek United States
Gerard ’t Hooft Netherlands
Leonard Susskind
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Fields of papers citing papers by Leonard Susskind

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leonard Susskind. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leonard Susskind based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Leonard Susskind. Leonard Susskind is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sekino, Yasuhiro, et al.. (2025). DSSYK at infinite temperature: the flat-space limit and the ’t Hooft model. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(11).
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Sekino, Yasuhiro & Leonard Susskind. (2025). Double-scaled SYK, QCD, and the flat space limit of de Sitter space. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(10).
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Brown, Adam R., Michael Freedman, Henry W. Lin, & Leonard Susskind. (2023). Universality in long-distance geometry and quantum complexity. Nature. 622(7981). 58–62. 6 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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Susskind, Leonard. (2023). Black Holes Hint towards De Sitter Matrix Theory. Universe. 9(8). 368–368. 26 indexed citations
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Maltz, Jonathan S. & Leonard Susskind. (2017). de Sitter Space as a Resonance. Physical Review Letters. 118(10). 101602–101602. 11 indexed citations
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Cvitanović, Predrag & Leonard Susskind. (2017). David Ritz Finkelstein. Physics Today. 70(2). 68–69. 1 indexed citations
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Sekino, Yasuhiro & Leonard Susskind. (2009). Census taking in the hat: FRW/CFT duality. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 80(8). 30 indexed citations
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Carr, B. J., Steven Weinberg, Frank Wilczek, et al.. (2007). Universe or Multiverse?. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 78 indexed citations
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Freivogel, Ben, Matthew Kleban, María Rodríguez Martínez, & Leonard Susskind. (2006). Observational consequences of a landscape. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006(3). 39–39. 152 indexed citations
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Freivogel, Ben, et al.. (2006). Holographic framework for eternal inflation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 74(8). 71 indexed citations
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Hooft, Gerard ’t, Leonard Susskind, Edward Witten, et al.. (2005). A theory of everything?. Nature. 433(7023). 257–259. 14 indexed citations
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Goheer, Naureen, Matthew Kleban, & Leonard Susskind. (2004). 1+1Dimensional Compactifications of String Theory. Physical Review Letters. 92(19). 191601–191601. 10 indexed citations
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Goheer, Naureen, Matthew Kleban, & Leonard Susskind. (2003). The trouble with de Sitter space. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003(7). 56–56. 151 indexed citations
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Lindesay, James, et al.. (2002). Is There Really a de Sitter/CFT Duality. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002(8). 45–45. 81 indexed citations
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Halyo, Edi, Barak Kol, Arvind Rajaraman, & Leonard Susskind. (1997). Counting Schwarzschild and charged black holes. Physics Letters B. 401(1-2). 15–20. 47 indexed citations
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Susskind, Leonard & J. Uglum. (1994). Black Holes, Interactions, and Strings. CERN Bulletin. 254–270. 2 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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Dimopoulos, Savas & Leonard Susskind. (1978). Baryon number of the universe. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 18(12). 4500–4509. 221 indexed citations

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