Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki

4.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
72 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geometry and Topology and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 28 papers in Geometry and Topology and 23 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (23 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (21 papers). Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (23 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (21 papers). Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki's co-authors include Lakshya Bhardwaj, Fabio Apruzzi, Yi-Nan Wang, Joseph Marsano, Marija Zamaklar, Lea E. Bottini, Natalia Saulina, Apoorv Tiwari, Dewi S. W. Gould and Cyril Closset and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki

72 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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. ICTP lectures on (non-)invertible generalized symmetries
    2024 147 citations Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki Physics Reports profile →
  2. Non-invertible higher-categorical symmetries
    2023 138 citations Lakshya Bhardwaj, Lea E. Bottini et al. SciPost Physics profile →
  3. Universal Non‐Invertible Symmetries
    2022 98 citations Lakshya Bhardwaj, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki et al. profile →
  4. Noninvertible Symmetries from Holography and Branes
    2023 89 citations Fabio Apruzzi, Federico Bonetti et al. profile →
  5. Generalized charges, part I: Invertible symmetries and higher representations
    2024 43 citations Lakshya Bhardwaj, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki SciPost Physics profile →
  6. Gapped phases with non-invertible symmetries: (1+1)d
    2025 29 citations Lakshya Bhardwaj, Lea E. Bottini et al. SciPost Physics profile →

Peers

Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki
Clay Córdova United States
Francesco Benini Italy
Sunil Mukhi India
F. Delduc France
Roberto Tateo Italy
Kenneth Intriligator United States
Brian Willett United States
A. D’Adda Italy
Gleb Arutyunov Germany
Nadav Drukker United Kingdom
Clay Córdova United States
Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki 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 Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki. Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki 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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Bhardwaj, Lakshya, Lea E. Bottini, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki, & Apoorv Tiwari. (2025). Illustrating the categorical Landau paradigm in lattice models. Physical review. B.. 111(5). 8 indexed citations
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya, et al.. (2025). Gapped phases in (2+1)d with non-invertible symmetries: Part I. SciPost Physics. 19(2). 4 indexed citations
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Yang, Fan, et al.. (2025). Categorical Symmetries in Spin Models with Atom Arrays.. PubMed. 135(20). 206503–206503. 1 indexed citations
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Copetti, Christian, et al.. (2025). SymTFT for (3+1)d gapless SPTs and obstructions to confinement. SciPost Physics. 18(3). 6 indexed citations
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya, et al.. (2025). Boundary SymTFT. SciPost Physics. 19(2). 4 indexed citations
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Braun, Andreas P., et al.. (2024). $G_2$-manifolds from 4d N=1 theories, part I: Domain walls. SciPost Physics. 17(4). 2 indexed citations
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Apruzzi, Fabio, Federico Bonetti, Dewi S. W. Gould, & Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki. (2024). Aspects of categorical symmetries from branes: SymTFTs and generalized charges. SciPost Physics. 17(1). 28 indexed citations
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Schäfer‐Nameki, Sakura. (2024). ICTP lectures on (non-)invertible generalized symmetries. Physics Reports. 1063. 1–55. 147 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya, Lea E. Bottini, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki, & Apoorv Tiwari. (2023). Non-invertible higher-categorical symmetries. SciPost Physics. 14(1). 138 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya, Lea E. Bottini, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki, & Apoorv Tiwari. (2023). Non-invertible symmetry webs. SciPost Physics. 15(4). 52 indexed citations
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Hübner, Max, David R. Morrison, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki, & Yi-Nan Wang. (2022). Generalized Symmetries in F-theory and the Topology of Elliptic Fibrations. SciPost Physics. 13(2). 26 indexed citations
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya, Simone Giacomelli, Max Hübner, & Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki. (2022). Relative defects in relative theories: Trapped higher-form symmetries and irregular punctures in class S. SciPost Physics. 13(4). 31 indexed citations
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Bhardwaj, Lakshya, Max Hübner, & Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki. (2022). Liberating confinement from Lagrangians: 1-form symmetries and lines in 4d N=1 from 6d N=(2,0). SciPost Physics. 12(1). 26 indexed citations
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Apruzzi, Fabio, et al.. (2022). The Global Form of Flavor Symmetries and 2-Group Symmetries in 5d SCFTs. SciPost Physics. 13(2). 61 indexed citations
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Closset, Cyril, Simone Giacomelli, Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki, & Yi-Nan Wang. (2021). Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 89 indexed citations
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Beest, Marieke van, et al.. (2021). (5d RG-flow) trees in the tropical rain forest. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(3). 36 indexed citations
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Apruzzi, Fabio, Marieke van Beest, Dewi S. W. Gould, & Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki. (2021). Holography, 1-form symmetries, and confinement. Physical review. D. 104(6). 37 indexed citations
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Krippendorf, Sven, et al.. (2015). Froggatt-Nielsen meets Mordell-Weil: a phenomenological survey of global F-theory GUTs with U(1)s. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(11). 16 indexed citations
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Braun, Volker & Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki. (2008). Supersymmetric WZW models and twisted K-theory of SO(3). Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 12(2). 217–242. 4 indexed citations
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Schäfer‐Nameki, Sakura. (2005). The algebraic curve of 1-loop planar N=4 SYM. Nuclear Physics B. 714(1-2). 3–29. 67 indexed citations

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