Slava Rychkov

9.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
70 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Slava Rychkov is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Slava Rychkov has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 20 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 19 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Slava Rychkov's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (42 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (22 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (20 papers). Slava Rychkov is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (42 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (22 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (20 papers). Slava Rychkov collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and United States. Slava Rychkov's co-authors include Alessandro Vichi, David Poland, Riccardo Barbieri, Lawrence J. Hall, Riccardo Rattazzi, Sheer El-Showk, Miguel F. Paulos, Matthijs Hogervorst, David Simmons–Duffin and Bernardo Zan and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Slava Rychkov

67 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

Improved naturalness with a heavy Higgs boson: An alterna... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2019 2012 2011 2014 200 400 600
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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. Improved naturalness with a heavy Higgs boson: An alternative road to CERN LHC physics
    2006 610 citations Slava Rychkov et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  2. The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical techniques, and applications
    2019 411 citations David Poland, Slava Rychkov et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →
  3. Solving the 3D Ising model with the conformal bootstrap
    2012 398 citations Sheer El-Showk, Miguel F. Paulos et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  4. Bounding scalar operator dimensions in 4D CFT
    2011 342 citations Riccardo Rattazzi, Slava Rychkov et al. profile →
  5. Solving the 3d Ising Model with the Conformal Bootstrap II. $$c$$ c -Minimization and Precise Critical Exponents
    2014 311 citations Sheer El-Showk, Miguel F. Paulos et al. Journal of Statistical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Slava Rychkov France 37 4.4k 1.9k 1.2k 1.0k 896 70 5.7k
David Simmons–Duffin United States 29 2.8k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 909 0.8× 905 0.9× 577 0.6× 43 3.6k
David Poland United States 24 2.4k 0.6× 923 0.5× 959 0.8× 744 0.7× 624 0.7× 44 3.3k
J. Ambjørn Denmark 52 6.3k 1.4× 3.5k 1.8× 1.3k 1.1× 4.5k 4.5× 1.4k 1.5× 268 8.5k
Robert Shrock United States 47 6.4k 1.5× 963 0.5× 1.8k 1.5× 578 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 274 8.5k
A. A. Belavin Russia 25 4.4k 1.0× 1.0k 0.5× 1.6k 1.4× 2.9k 2.9× 1.6k 1.8× 112 7.6k
Alexander Migdal United States 29 3.0k 0.7× 794 0.4× 864 0.7× 1.7k 1.7× 553 0.6× 84 4.3k
Arthur Jaffe United States 25 2.0k 0.5× 514 0.3× 659 0.6× 904 0.9× 928 1.0× 74 4.1k
François David France 30 2.0k 0.4× 680 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 1.3k 1.3× 798 0.9× 78 3.8k
Miguel F. Paulos France 28 2.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 533 0.4× 781 0.8× 406 0.5× 46 2.8k
Alessandro Vichi Switzerland 16 1.9k 0.4× 619 0.3× 816 0.7× 554 0.6× 480 0.5× 29 2.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rychkov, Slava, et al.. (2025). Bootstrapping frustrated magnets: the fate of the chiral ${\rm O}(N)\times {\rm O}(2)$ universality class. SciPost Physics. 18(2). 3 indexed citations
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Rychkov, Slava. (2025). Conformal bootstrap: From Polyakov to our times. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 40(34).
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Läuchli, Andreas M., et al.. (2025). Exact diagonalization, matrix product states and conformal perturbation theory study of a 3D Ising fuzzy sphere model. SciPost Physics. 19(3). 1 indexed citations
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Rong, Junchen & Slava Rychkov. (2024). Classifying irreducible fixed points of five scalar fields in perturbation theory. SciPost Physics. 16(2). 1 indexed citations
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Rychkov, Slava. (2023). Lectures on the Random Field Ising Model. 5 indexed citations
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Kaviraj, Apratim, et al.. (2022). Parisi-Sourlas Supersymmetry in Random Field Models. Physical Review Letters. 129(4). 45701–45701. 18 indexed citations
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Kaviraj, Apratim, et al.. (2021). Random field Ising model and Parisi-Sourlas supersymmetry. Part II. Renormalization group. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(3). 17 indexed citations
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Poland, David, Slava Rychkov, & Alessandro Vichi. (2019). The conformal bootstrap: Theory, numerical techniques, and applications. Reviews of Modern Physics. 91(1). 411 indexed citations breakdown →
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Poland, David, Slava Rychkov, & Alessandro Vichi. (2018). The Conformal Bootstrap: Numerical Techniques and Applications. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
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Gorbenko, V., Slava Rychkov, & Bernardo Zan. (2018). Walking, Weak first-order transitions, and Complex CFTs II. Two-dimensional Potts model at $Q>4$. SciPost Physics. 5(5). 76 indexed citations
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Rychkov, Slava. (2017). EPFL lectures on conformal field theory in D [greater than or equal to] 3 dimensions. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Behan, Connor, Leonardo Rastelli, Slava Rychkov, & Bernardo Zan. (2017). Long-Range Critical Exponents near the Short-Range Crossover. Physical Review Letters. 118(24). 241601–241601. 59 indexed citations
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Rychkov, Slava, David Simmons–Duffin, & Bernardo Zan. (2017). Non-gaussianity of the critical 3d Ising model. SciPost Physics. 2(1). 12 indexed citations
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Miró, Joan Elias, et al.. (2017). High-precision calculations in strongly coupled quantum field theory with next-to-leading-order renormalized Hamiltonian Truncation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(10). 27 indexed citations
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El-Showk, Sheer, Miguel F. Paulos, David Poland, et al.. (2014). Conformal Field Theories in Fractional Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 112(14). 141601–141601. 90 indexed citations
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El-Showk, Sheer, Miguel F. Paulos, David Poland, et al.. (2014). Solving the 3d Ising Model with the Conformal Bootstrap II. $$c$$ c -Minimization and Precise Critical Exponents. Journal of Statistical Physics. 157(4-5). 869–914. 311 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pappadopulo, Duccio, et al.. (2012). Operator product expansion convergence in conformal field theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(10). 158 indexed citations
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Isidori, Gino, Slava Rychkov, Алессандро Струмиа, & N. Tetradis. (2008). Gravitational corrections to standard model vacuum decay. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(2). 94 indexed citations
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Rychkov, Slava. (2004). Black hole production in particle collisions and higher curvature gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 70(4). 52 indexed citations

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