Matthew Headrick

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Matthew Headrick is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew Headrick has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 24 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 10 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Matthew Headrick's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (27 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (22 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (8 papers). Matthew Headrick is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (27 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (22 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (8 papers). Matthew Headrick collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Matthew Headrick's co-authors include Tadashi Takayanagi, Veronika E. Hubeny, Albion Lawrence, Alexander Maloney, Patrick Hayden, Mukund Rangamani, Shiraz Minwalla, César A. Agón, Daniel Z. Freedman and Brian Swingle and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of High Energy Physics, Communications in Mathematical Physics and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

In The Last Decade

Matthew Headrick

28 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Entanglement Rényi entropies in holographic theories 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 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. Entanglement Rényi entropies in holographic theories
    2010 340 citations Matthew Headrick Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthew Headrick United States 17 1.3k 1.1k 712 405 116 30 1.5k
Daniel L. Jafferis United States 21 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.9× 807 1.1× 355 0.9× 85 0.7× 30 1.7k
Alexander Maloney Canada 26 2.0k 1.5× 1.7k 1.6× 1.1k 1.5× 330 0.8× 61 0.5× 45 2.3k
Aron C. Wall United States 22 2.1k 1.6× 1.9k 1.8× 1.3k 1.8× 605 1.5× 83 0.7× 32 2.3k
Márk Mezei United States 21 1.1k 0.8× 845 0.8× 549 0.8× 518 1.3× 98 0.8× 34 1.4k
Ahmed Almheiri United States 11 1.7k 1.3× 1.5k 1.4× 1.0k 1.5× 515 1.3× 103 0.9× 13 2.0k
Bartłomiej Czech United States 17 993 0.8× 852 0.8× 607 0.9× 235 0.6× 53 0.5× 37 1.1k
Albion Lawrence United States 23 2.0k 1.5× 1.5k 1.5× 843 1.2× 205 0.5× 50 0.4× 42 2.1k
Ben Craps Belgium 21 1.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 578 0.8× 447 1.1× 64 0.6× 58 1.4k
Vladimir Rosenhaus United States 18 964 0.7× 581 0.5× 581 0.8× 393 1.0× 51 0.4× 29 1.3k
Stefan Hollands Germany 22 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 523 0.7× 257 0.6× 26 0.2× 58 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthew Headrick

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew Headrick

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Headrick, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Testing holographic entropy inequalities in 2 + 1 dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(1). 8 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Entangled universes. SciPost Physics. 19(6).
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Headrick, Matthew, et al.. (2025). Minimax surfaces and the holographic entropy cone. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(5). 3 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew, et al.. (2024). Geometric surprises in the Python's lunch conjecture. SciPost Physics. 16(6). 4 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew & Veronika E. Hubeny. (2023). Covariant bit threads. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(7). 21 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew & Barton Zwiebach. (2020). Minimal-Area Metrics on the Swiss Cross and Punctured Torus. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 377(3). 2287–2343. 13 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew & Veronika E. Hubeny. (2018). Riemannian and Lorentzian flow-cut theorems. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 35(10). 105012–105012. 34 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew, Alexander Maloney, Eric Perlmutter, & Ida G. Zadeh. (2015). Rényi entropies, the analytic bootstrap, and 3D quantum gravity at higher genus. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(7). 33 indexed citations
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Hayden, Patrick, Matthew Headrick, & Alexander Maloney. (2013). Holographic mutual information is monogamous. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 87(4). 194 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew, Albion Lawrence, & Matthew M. Roberts. (2013). Bose–Fermi duality and entanglement entropies. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2013(2). P02022–P02022. 35 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew. (2010). Entanglement Rényi entropies in holographic theories. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(12). 340 indexed citations breakdown →
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Headrick, Matthew. (2009). Note on tachyon actions in string theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 79(4). 3 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew. (2008). Hedgehog black holes and the Polyakov loop at strong coupling. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(10). 11 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew & Tadashi Takayanagi. (2007). Holographic proof of the strong subadditivity of entanglement entropy. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(10). 177 indexed citations
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Freedman, Daniel Z., Matthew Headrick, & Albion Lawrence. (2006). On closed string tachyon dynamics. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 73(6). 30 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew. (2003). Noncommutative Multi-Solitons. 405.
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Gutperle, Michael, Matthew Headrick, Shiraz Minwalla, & Volker Schomerus. (2003). Spacetime Energy Decreases under World-sheet RG Flow. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003(1). 73–73. 35 indexed citations
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David, Justin R., Michael Gutperle, Matthew Headrick, & Shiraz Minwalla. (2002). Closed String Tachyon Condensation on Twisted Circles. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002(2). 41–41. 39 indexed citations
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Constable, Neil R., Daniel Z. Freedman, Matthew Headrick, & Shiraz Minwalla. (2002). Operator Mixing and the BMN Correspondence. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002(10). 68–68. 85 indexed citations
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Headrick, Matthew & J. Richard Gott. (1994). (2+1)-dimensional spacetimes containing closed timelike curves. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 50(12). 7244–7259. 15 indexed citations

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