Pavel Kovtun

7.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
37 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Pavel Kovtun is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pavel Kovtun has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 24 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 10 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Pavel Kovtun's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (28 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (23 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (12 papers). Pavel Kovtun is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (28 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (23 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (12 papers). Pavel Kovtun collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Greece. Pavel Kovtun's co-authors include Andrei O. Starinets, D. Son, Laurence G. Yaffe, Christopher P. Herzog, Sean A. Hartnoll, Subir Sachdev, Adam Ritz, Andreas Karch, Markus Müller and Can Kozçaz and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Pavel Kovtun

37 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories ... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2006 2005 2007 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
    2005 1.8k citations Pavel Kovtun, D. Son et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Energy loss of a heavy quark moving through Script N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
    2006 451 citations Pavel Kovtun, Laurence G. Yaffe et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  3. Quasinormal modes and holography
    2005 439 citations Pavel Kovtun, Andrei O. Starinets Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  4. Theory of the Nernst effect near quantum phase transitions in condensed matter and in dyonic black holes
    2007 378 citations Sean A. Hartnoll, Pavel Kovtun et al. profile →

Peers

Pavel Kovtun
Andrei O. Starinets United States
Anton Rebhan Austria
Zoltán Fodor Hungary
F. Becattini Italy
Zensho Yoshida Japan
Teiji Kunihiro Japan
Ho-Ung Yee United States
Alex Buchel Canada
Andreas Karch United States
Andrei O. Starinets United States
Pavel Kovtun
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pavel Kovtun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Pavel Kovtun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Pavel Kovtun 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 Pavel Kovtun. Pavel Kovtun 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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Kovtun, Pavel, et al.. (2025). Hydrodynamics with multiple charges and holography. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(12). 1 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel, et al.. (2025). Instability in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at finite density. Physical review. D. 111(8). 4 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel, et al.. (2024). Causality and classical dispersion relations. Physical review. D. 109(4). 11 indexed citations
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Jain, Akash & Pavel Kovtun. (2024). Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory for stable and causal relativistic hydrodynamics. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(1). 12 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel. (2023). Temperature in relativistic fluids. Physical review. D. 107(8). 6 indexed citations
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Jain, Akash & Pavel Kovtun. (2022). Late Time Correlations in Hydrodynamics: Beyond Constitutive Relations. Physical Review Letters. 128(7). 19 indexed citations
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Grozdanov, Sašo, et al.. (2019). The complex life of hydrodynamic modes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019(11). 85 indexed citations
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Grozdanov, Sašo, et al.. (2019). Convergence of the Gradient Expansion in Hydrodynamics. Physical Review Letters. 122(25). 251601–251601. 72 indexed citations
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Hernandez, Juan & Pavel Kovtun. (2017). Relativistic magnetohydrodynamics. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(5). 91 indexed citations
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Jensen, Kristan, Matthias Kaminski, Pavel Kovtun, et al.. (2012). Towards Hydrodynamics without an Entropy Current. Physical Review Letters. 109(10). 101601–101601. 160 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel & Dominik Nickel. (2009). Black Holes and Nonrelativistic Quantum Systems. Physical Review Letters. 102(1). 11602–11602. 34 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel & Adam Ritz. (2008). Black Holes and Universality Classes of Critical Points. Physical Review Letters. 100(17). 171606–171606. 23 indexed citations
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Hartnoll, Sean A. & Pavel Kovtun. (2007). Hall conductivity from dyonic black holes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(6). 149 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel & Andrei O. Starinets. (2006). Thermal Spectral Functions of Strongly CoupledN=4Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory. Physical Review Letters. 96(13). 131601–131601. 70 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel & A. Zee. (2006). A scheme for the neutrino mixing matrix. Physics Letters B. 640(1-2). 37–39. 10 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel, D. Son, & Andrei O. Starinets. (2005). Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics. Physical Review Letters. 94(11). 111601–111601. 1758 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kovtun, Pavel, Mithat Ünsal, & Laurence G. Yaffe. (2005). Can largeNcequivalence between supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and its orbifold projections be valid?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(10). 32 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel, D. T. Son, & Andrei O. Starinets. (2004). A Viscosity Bound Conjecture. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel, Mithat Ünsal, & Laurence G. Yaffe. (2003). Non-perturbative equivalences among large Ncgauge theories with adjoint and bifundamental matter fields. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003(12). 34–34. 48 indexed citations
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Kovtun, Pavel & Laurence G. Yaffe. (2003). Hydrodynamic fluctuations, long-time tails, and supersymmetry. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(2). 97 indexed citations

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