Silviu S. Pufu

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Silviu S. Pufu is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Silviu S. Pufu has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 26 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 15 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Silviu S. Pufu's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (53 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (26 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (24 papers). Silviu S. Pufu is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (53 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (26 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (24 papers). Silviu S. Pufu collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Silviu S. Pufu's co-authors include Steven S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov, Shai M. Chester, Christopher P. Herzog, Daniel L. Jafferis, Amos Yarom, Ran Yacoby, Tiberiu Teşileanu, Fábio D. Rocha and Benjamin R. Safdi and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Silviu S. Pufu

55 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Towards the F-theorem: $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ field theories... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2017 100 200 300
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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. Towards the F-theorem: $ \mathcal{N} = 2 $ field theories on the three-sphere
    2011 300 citations Igor R. Klebanov, Silviu S. Pufu et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  2. Localization techniques in quantum field theories
    2017 175 citations Silviu S. Pufu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Silviu S. Pufu United States 29 2.9k 1.7k 815 340 288 56 3.0k
Zohar Komargodski United States 30 2.8k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 898 1.1× 510 1.5× 357 1.2× 51 3.2k
James T. Liu United States 29 3.4k 1.2× 2.5k 1.5× 1.1k 1.3× 331 1.0× 149 0.5× 127 3.6k
Jacob Sonnenschein Israel 32 3.4k 1.2× 1.9k 1.2× 997 1.2× 307 0.9× 225 0.8× 114 3.6k
Balt C. van Rees United States 24 2.0k 0.7× 921 0.6× 718 0.9× 292 0.9× 452 1.6× 39 2.3k
Yu Nakayama Japan 23 1.5k 0.5× 872 0.5× 552 0.7× 258 0.8× 217 0.8× 113 1.8k
A. Liam Fitzpatrick United States 24 2.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 507 0.6× 514 1.5× 162 0.6× 52 2.6k
Soo-Jong Rey South Korea 32 3.8k 1.3× 2.8k 1.7× 1.5k 1.9× 299 0.9× 317 1.1× 118 4.2k
Keisuke Ohashi Japan 28 2.1k 0.7× 1.0k 0.6× 873 1.1× 450 1.3× 245 0.9× 62 2.4k
Johanna Erdmenger Germany 28 3.1k 1.1× 2.2k 1.3× 907 1.1× 638 1.9× 117 0.4× 112 3.5k
Konstantin Zarembo Sweden 35 3.7k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 312 0.9× 732 2.5× 91 3.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pufu, Silviu S., et al.. (2025). Scattering from (p, q)-strings in AdS5 × S5. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 3 indexed citations
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Chester, Shai M., Ross Dempsey, & Silviu S. Pufu. (2025). Higher-derivative corrections in M-theory from precision numerical bootstrap. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(7). 2 indexed citations
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Dempsey, Ross, et al.. (2024). Phase Diagram of the Two-Flavor Schwinger Model at Zero Temperature. Physical Review Letters. 132(3). 31603–31603. 19 indexed citations
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Chester, Shai M., Ross Dempsey, & Silviu S. Pufu. (2024). Level repulsion in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 super-Yang-Mills via integrability, holography, and the bootstrap. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(7). 13 indexed citations
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Chester, Shai M., Ross Dempsey, & Silviu S. Pufu. (2023). Bootstrapping $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 super-Yang-Mills on the conformal manifold. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(1). 22 indexed citations
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Dempsey, Ross, et al.. (2023). Adjoint Majorana QCD2 at finite N. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(4). 22 indexed citations
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Zan, Bernardo, Daniel Z. Freedman, & Silviu S. Pufu. (2022). The $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 prepotential and the sphere free energy. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(6). 3 indexed citations
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Dempsey, Ross, Igor R. Klebanov, Silviu S. Pufu, & Bernardo Zan. (2022). Discrete chiral symmetry and mass shift in the lattice Hamiltonian approach to the Schwinger model. Physical Review Research. 4(4). 38 indexed citations
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Freedman, Daniel Z., et al.. (2022). The holographic contributions to the sphere free energy. CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa). 4 indexed citations
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Chester, Shai M., et al.. (2020). AdS4/CFT3 from weak to strong string coupling. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020(1). 34 indexed citations
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Gerchkovitz, Efrat, et al.. (2017). Correlation functions of Coulomb branch operators. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(1). 95 indexed citations
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Pufu, Silviu S., et al.. (2013). Three-sphere free energy for classical gauge groups. 25 indexed citations
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Pufu, Silviu S. & Subir Sachdev. (2013). Monopoles in 2 + 1-dimensional conformal field theories with global U(1) symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(9). 23 indexed citations
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Klebanov, Igor R. & Silviu S. Pufu. (2011). M-branes and metastable states. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011(8). 25 indexed citations
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Gubser, Steven S., Silviu S. Pufu, & Amos Yarom. (2009). Off-center collisions in AdS5with applications to multiplicity estimates in heavy-ion collisions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2009(11). 50–50. 59 indexed citations
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Herzog, Christopher P. & Silviu S. Pufu. (2009). The second sound of SU(2). Journal of High Energy Physics. 2009(4). 126–126. 51 indexed citations
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Gubser, Steven S., Christopher P. Herzog, Silviu S. Pufu, & Tiberiu Teşileanu. (2009). Superconductors from Superstrings. Physical Review Letters. 103(14). 141601–141601. 152 indexed citations
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Gubser, Steven S., Abhinav Nellore, Silviu S. Pufu, & Fábio D. Rocha. (2008). Thermodynamics and Bulk Viscosity of Approximate Black Hole Duals to Finite Temperature Quantum Chromodynamics. Physical Review Letters. 101(13). 131601–131601. 195 indexed citations
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Gubser, Steven S., Silviu S. Pufu, & Amos Yarom. (2008). Sonic Booms and Diffusion Wakes Generated by a Heavy Quark in Thermal Gauge-String Duality. Physical Review Letters. 100(1). 12301–12301. 66 indexed citations
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Gubser, Steven S. & Silviu S. Pufu. (2007). Master field treatment of metric perturbations sourced by the trailing string. Nuclear Physics B. 790(1-2). 42–71. 27 indexed citations

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