Ulvi Yurtsever

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Ulvi Yurtsever is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ulvi Yurtsever has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ulvi Yurtsever's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (19 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (17 papers) and Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (9 papers). Ulvi Yurtsever is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (19 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (17 papers) and Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (9 papers). Ulvi Yurtsever collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Ulvi Yurtsever's co-authors include Michael S. Morris, Kip S. Thorne, Robert M. Wald, Pieter Kok, John L. Friedman, Jonathan P. Dowling, I. D. Novikov, G. Hockney, Hwang Lee and Christoph Adami and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A and Optics Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ulvi Yurtsever

31 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 250 500 750 1000
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. Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition
    1988 1.2k citations Michael S. Morris, Kip S. Thorne et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ulvi Yurtsever United States 17 1.5k 1.3k 576 572 174 32 1.9k
I. D. Novikov Russia 21 2.2k 1.5× 1.5k 1.1× 518 0.9× 421 0.7× 54 0.3× 105 2.4k
G. Kunstatter Canada 30 1.9k 1.2× 2.3k 1.8× 1.1k 1.8× 501 0.9× 83 0.5× 149 2.6k
Akio Hosoya Japan 21 759 0.5× 953 0.7× 498 0.9× 653 1.1× 386 2.2× 86 1.7k
Jerzy Kijowski Poland 20 895 0.6× 934 0.7× 524 0.9× 324 0.6× 97 0.6× 96 1.5k
Alex Vilenkin United States 3 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 371 0.6× 410 0.7× 36 0.2× 4 1.8k
Sugumi Kanno Japan 21 1.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 472 0.8× 336 0.6× 133 0.8× 76 1.8k
Giampiero Esposito Italy 22 848 0.6× 681 0.5× 736 1.3× 622 1.1× 72 0.4× 126 1.4k
Arthur Komar United States 18 1.2k 0.8× 1.0k 0.8× 621 1.1× 403 0.7× 52 0.3× 53 1.6k
Rafael A. Porto United States 37 3.1k 2.1× 2.2k 1.7× 429 0.7× 558 1.0× 97 0.6× 61 3.6k
Francisco D. Mazzitelli Argentina 27 1.3k 0.9× 770 0.6× 1.1k 1.8× 1.6k 2.8× 106 0.6× 146 2.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ulvi Yurtsever

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sabottke, Carl, et al.. (2012). Thwarting the Photon Number Splitting Attack with Entanglement Enhanced BB84 Quantum Key Distribution. QW1A.3–QW1A.3. 1 indexed citations
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Spedalieri, Federico M., Hwang Lee, Marian Florescu, et al.. (2005). Exploiting the Quantum Zeno effect to beat photon loss in linear optical quantum information processors. Optics Communications. 254(4-6). 374–379. 7 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (2003). Holographic Entropy Bound and Local Quantum Field Theory. Physical Review Letters. 91(4). 41302–41302. 14 indexed citations
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Kok, Pieter & Ulvi Yurtsever. (2003). Gravitational decoherence. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(8). 48 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi & Jonathan P. Dowling. (2002). Lorentz-invariant look at quantum clock-synchronization protocols based on distributed entanglement. Physical Review A. 65(5). 30 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (2000). Quantum mechanics and algorithmic randomness. Complexity. 6(1). 27–34. 5 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1995). Averaged null energy condition and difference inequalities in quantum field theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 51(10). 5797–5805. 18 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1995). Remarks on the averaged null energy condition in quantum field theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 52(2). R564–R568. 14 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1994). On the origin of spacetime topology and some generalizations of quantum field theory. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 11(4). 1013–1026. 3 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1993). Comments on the instability of black-hole inner horizons. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 10(1). L17–L24. 23 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1992). A simple proof of geodesical completeness for compact space-times of zero curvature. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 33(4). 1295–1300. 4 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1991). Classical and quantum instability of compact Cauchy horizons in two dimensions. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 8(6). 1127–1139. 11 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M. & Ulvi Yurtsever. (1991). General proof of the averaged null energy condition for a massless scalar field in two-dimensional curved spacetime. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 44(2). 403–416. 84 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1990). Does quantum field theory enforce the averaged weak energy condition?. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 7(11). L251–L258. 29 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1989). Quantum field theory in a colliding plane-wave background. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 40(2). 360–371. 9 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1989). Singularities and horizons in the collisions of gravitational waves. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 40(2). 329–359. 25 indexed citations
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Morris, Michael S., Kip S. Thorne, & Ulvi Yurtsever. (1988). Wormholes, Time Machines, and the Weak Energy Condition. Physical Review Letters. 61(13). 1446–1449. 1169 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1988). Colliding almost-plane gravitational waves: Colliding plane waves and general properties of almost-plane-wave spacetimes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 37(10). 2803–2817. 28 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1988). Structure of the singularities produced by colliding plane waves. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 38(6). 1706–1730. 49 indexed citations
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Yurtsever, Ulvi. (1988). New family of exact solutions for colliding plane gravitational waves. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 37(10). 2790–2802. 19 indexed citations

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