Xi Dong

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Xi Dong is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xi Dong has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 34 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 22 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Xi Dong's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (37 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (34 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (21 papers). Xi Dong is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (37 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (34 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (21 papers). Xi Dong collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Xi Dong's co-authors include Daniel Harlow, Ahmed Almheiri, Aron C. Wall, Gonzalo Torroba, Eva Silverstein, Bart Horn, Sarah M. Harrison, Shamit Kachru, Huajia Wang and Donald Marolf and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Xi Dong

42 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Bulk locality and quantum error correction in AdS/CFT

2015 421 citations Xi Dong, Daniel Harlow et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
Reconstruction of Bulk Operators within the Entanglement Wedge in Gauge-Gravity Duality

2016 289 citations Xi Dong, Daniel Harlow 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						Papers	Cites
Xi Dong United States	20	1.7k	1.4k	952	468	137	42	2.0k
Ahmed Almheiri United States	11	1.7k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	515 1.1×	103 0.8×	13	2.0k
Daniel Harlow United States	19	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	487 1.0×	192 1.4×	25	2.3k
Aron C. Wall United States	22	2.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	605 1.3×	83 0.6×	32	2.3k
Matthew Headrick United States	17	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	712 0.7×	405 0.9×	116 0.8×	30	1.5k
Daniel L. Jafferis United States	21	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	807 0.8×	355 0.8×	85 0.6×	30	1.7k
Alexander Maloney Canada	26	2.0k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	330 0.7×	61 0.4×	45	2.3k
G. Kunstatter Canada	30	2.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	501 1.1×	83 0.6×	149	2.6k
Ben Craps Belgium	21	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	578 0.6×	447 1.0×	64 0.5×	58	1.4k
Daniel Kabat United States	23	1.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1000 1.1×	355 0.8×	35 0.3×	64	2.1k
Márk Mezei United States	21	1.1k 0.6×	845 0.6×	549 0.6×	518 1.1×	98 0.7×	34	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Xi Dong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xi Dong

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Dong, Xi, Jonah Kudler-Flam, & Pratik Rath. (2025). Entanglement negativity and replica symmetry breaking in general holographic states. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(1). 5 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, Donald Marolf, & Pratik Rath. (2024). Constrained HRT Surfaces and their Entropic Interpretation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 4 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, et al.. (2024). Algebras and Hilbert spaces from gravitational path integrals. Understanding Ryu-Takayanagi/HRT as entropy without AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(10). 7 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, et al.. (2024). Holographic tensor networks with bulk gauge symmetries. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 8 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, Jonah Kudler-Flam, & Pratik Rath. (2024). A modified cosmic brane proposal for holographic Renyi entropy. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(6). 7 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, et al.. (2023). Holographic entanglement from the UV to the IR. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(11). 3 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi. (2023). Effective entropy of quantum fields coupled with gravity. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 32 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi. (2023). Entropy, extremality, euclidean variations, and the equations of motion. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 45 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi. (2022). Deriving covariant holographic entanglement. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 20 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, et al.. (2022). A tale of two butterflies: an exact equivalence in higher-derivative gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(10). 6 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi. (2019). Holographic Rényi Entropy at High Energy Density. Physical Review Letters. 122(4). 41602–41602. 15 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, Daniel Harlow, & Donald Marolf. (2019). Flat entanglement spectra in fixed-area states of quantum gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019(10). 86 indexed citations

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Chen, Yiming, Xi Dong, Aitor Lewkowycz, & Xiao-Liang Qi. (2018). Modular flow as a disentangler. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(12). 20 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, Daniel Harlow, & Aron C. Wall. (2016). Reconstruction of Bulk Operators within the Entanglement Wedge in Gauge-Gravity Duality. Physical Review Letters. 117(2). 21601–21601. 289 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dong, Xi. (2016). The gravity dual of Rényi entropy. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12472–12472. 197 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi. (2016). Shape Dependence of Holographic Rényi Entropy in Conformal Field Theories. Physical Review Letters. 116(25). 251602–251602. 33 indexed citations

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Cremonini, Sera, Xi Dong, Junchen Rong, & Kai Sun. (2015). Holographic RG flows with nematic IR phases. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(7). 4 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, Bart Horn, Eva Silverstein, & Gonzalo Torroba. (2012). Unitarity bounds and renormalization-group flows in time dependent quantum field theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(2). 9 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, Bart Horn, Shunji Matsuura, Eva Silverstein, & Gonzalo Torroba. (2012). FRW solutions and holography from uplifted AdS/CFT systems. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 85(10). 21 indexed citations

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Dong, Xi, Bart Horn, Eva Silverstein, & Alexander Westphal. (2011). Simple exercises to flatten your potential. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(2). 105 indexed citations

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