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Davide Gaiotto

Davide Gaiotto

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
86
Citations
30471
World Ranking
2518
National Ranking
54

Davide Gaiotto publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Davide Gaiotto sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 156 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Davide Gaiotto D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Davide Gaiotto sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Gribov Medal, European Physical Society For the uncovering of new facets of the dynamics of four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theories. In particular, for discovering a large class of four-dimensional superconformal theories and for finding with others important intricate relations between two-dimensional theories of gravity and four-dimensional gauge theories.

Overview

Davide Gaiotto is affiliated with the Perimeter Institute in Canada, working primarily at the intersection of physics and mathematics. Their research contributions span over 100 publications, with a focus in physics and astronomy as well as mathematics.

The main subfields of study in Gaiotto's work include nuclear and high energy physics, geometry and topology, mathematical physics, statistical and nonlinear physics, and astronomy and astrophysics. Their work covers a range of topics such as black holes and theoretical physics, algebraic structures and combinatorial models, noncommutative and quantum gravity theories, advanced algebra and geometry, advanced topics in algebra, quantum chromodynamics and particle interactions, and cosmology and gravitation theories.

Some of the frequent publication venues for their work are arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of High Energy Physics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, SciPost Physics, and OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

Gaiotto has collaborated regularly with several co-authors including Kasia Budzik, Jingxiang Wu, Justin Kulp, Ji Hoon Lee, and Matthew Yu. These collaborations often contribute to the interdisciplinary nature of their research across both physics and mathematics.

Notable recent papers authored by Davide Gaiotto include:

  • Orbifold groupoids, 2021, Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Time-reversal breaking in QCD4, walls, and dualities in 2 + 1 dimensions, 2023, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Holomorphic SCFTs with small index, 2021, Canadian Journal of Mathematics

Other recent works associated with Gaiotto include papers published in OSTI OAI and Communications in Mathematical Physics, such as "Infrared computations of defect Schur indices" and "Boundary Chiral Algebras and Holomorphic Twists," although these feature other primary authors.

Among the awards received, Davide Gaiotto was honored with the Gribov Medal from the European Physical Society in 2011 for uncovering new aspects of four-dimensional supersymmetric gauge theory dynamics and for linking two-dimensional theories of gravity with four-dimensional gauge theories.

Best Publications

  • Liouville Correlation Functions from Four-dimensional Gauge Theories

    Luis F. Alday;Davide Gaiotto;Yuji Tachikawa

  • N=2 dualities

    Davide Gaiotto

  • Generalized Global Symmetries

    Davide Gaiotto;Anton Kapustin;Nathan Seiberg;Brian Willett

  • S-duality of boundary conditions in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory

    Davide Gaiotto;Edward Witten

  • Wall-crossing, Hitchin Systems, and the WKB Approximation

    Davide Gaiotto;Gregory W. Moore;Andrew Neitzke

  • Janus Configurations, Chern-Simons Couplings, And The Theta-Angle in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory

    Davide Gaiotto;Edward Witten

  • Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory

    Davide Gaiotto;Edward Witten

  • Notes on superconformal Chern-Simons-Matter theories

    Davide Gaiotto;Xi Yin

  • Loop and surface operators in N=2 gauge theory and Liouville modular geometry

    Luis F. Alday;Davide Gaiotto;Sergei Gukov;Sergei Gukov;Yuji Tachikawa

  • Gauge Theories Labelled by Three-Manifolds

    Tudor Dimofte;Davide Gaiotto;Sergei Gukov;Sergei Gukov

  • Four-dimensional wall-crossing via three-dimensional field theory

    Davide Gaiotto;Gregory W. Moore;Andrew M Neitzke

  • 3-Manifolds and 3d Indices

    Tudor Dimofte;Davide Gaiotto;Sergei Gukov

  • Framed BPS states

    Davide Gaiotto;Gregory W. Moore;Andrew M Neitzke

  • New connections between 4D and 5D black holes

    Davide Gaiotto;Andrew Strominger;Xi Yin

  • The Gravity duals of N=2 superconformal field theories

    Davide Gaiotto;Juan Maldacena

  • Janus configurations, Chern-Simons couplings, and The θ-Angle in \mathcal{N} = 4 super Yang-Mills theory

    Davide Gaiotto;Edward Witten

  • Supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models

    Wenbo Fu;Davide Gaiotto;Juan Maldacena;Subir Sachdev;Subir Sachdev

  • Spin Chains in N = 6 Superconformal Chern-Simons-Matter Theory

    Davide Gaiotto;Simone Giombi;Xi Yin

  • Supersymmetric Boundary Conditions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills Theory

    Davide Gaiotto;Edward Witten

  • Thermodynamic bubble ansatz

    Luis F. Alday;Davide Gaiotto;Juan Maldacena

Frequent Co-Authors

Tudor Dimofte
Tudor Dimofte University of California, Davis
Andrew Strominger
Andrew Strominger Harvard University
Gregory W. Moore
Gregory W. Moore Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sergei Gukov
Sergei Gukov California Institute of Technology
Juan Maldacena
Juan Maldacena Institute for Advanced Study
Edward Witten
Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study
Yuji Tachikawa
Yuji Tachikawa Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Luis F. Alday
Luis F. Alday University of Oxford
Nathan Seiberg
Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study

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