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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Leonard Susskind is a researcher affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions across several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research covers a wide range of topics, such as:

  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
  • Relativity and Gravitational Theory
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms

Susskind has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Adam R. Brown
  • Henry W. Lin
  • Hrant Gharibyan
  • Brian Swingle
  • Adel A. Rahman

They have published in various venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of High Energy Physics
  • PRX Quantum
  • Universe
  • Nature

Among recent papers, titles include:

  • Quantum Gravity in the Lab. I. Teleportation by Size and Traversable Wormholes (2023, PRX Quantum)
  • Quantum Gravity in the Lab. II. Teleportation by Size and Traversable Wormholes (2023, PRX Quantum)
  • Black Holes Hint towards De Sitter Matrix Theory (2023, Universe)
  • A Sparse Model of Quantum Holography (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • The Python's Lunch: geometric obstructions to decoding Hawking radiation (2020, Journal of High Energy Physics)

Susskind has also authored books published by well-known academic publishers. These include Three Lectures on Complexity and Black Holes (2020, Springer Nature) and The Black Hole Information Paradox (2025, Springer Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology).

Throughout their career, Leonard Susskind has been recognized with distinctions including membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2000 and fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1994.

Best Publications

  • The world as a hologram

    Leonard Susskind

  • M theory as a matrix model: A conjecture

    Thomas Banks;W. Fischler;S. H. Shenker;L. Susskind

  • Hamiltonian Formulation of Wilson's Lattice Gauge Theories

    John B. Kogut;Leonard Susskind

  • Dynamics of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Weinberg-Salam Theory

    Leonard Susskind

  • The stretched horizon and black hole complementarity.

    Leonard Susskind;Lárus Thorlacius;John Uglum

  • Cool horizons for entangled black holes

    Juan Maldacena;Leonard Susskind

  • Fast Scramblers

    Yasuhiro Sekino;Leonard Susskind

  • The Anthropic Landscape of String Theory

    Lenny Susskind

  • Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action

    Adam R. Brown;Daniel A. Roberts;Leonard Susskind;Brian Swingle

  • The Holographic Bound in Anti-de Sitter Space

    Leonard Susskind;Edward Witten

  • Invasion of the Giant Gravitons from Anti-de Sitter Space

    John McGreevy;Leonard Susskind;Nicolaos Toumbas

  • Computational Complexity and Black Hole Horizons

    Leonard Susskind

  • Black hole entropy in canonical quantum gravity and superstring theory

    Leonard Susskind;John Uglum

  • Mass Without Scalars

    Savas Dimopoulos;Leonard Susskind

  • Localized shocks

    Daniel A. Roberts;Douglas Stanford;Leonard Susskind

  • Complexity and Shock Wave Geometries

    Douglas Stanford;Leonard Susskind

  • Complexity, action, and black holes

    Adam R. Brown;Daniel A. Roberts;Leonard Susskind;Brian Swingle

  • The IR/UV connection in the non-commutative gauge theories

    Alec Matusis;Leonard Susskind;Nicolaos Toumbas

  • Order and disorder in gauge systems and magnets

    Eduardo H. Fradkin;Leonard Susskind

  • Gravity and global symmetries.

    Renata Kallosh;Renata Kallosh;Andrei D. Linde;Andrei D. Linde;Dmitri A. Linde;Dmitri A. Linde;Leonard Susskind;Leonard Susskind

Frequent Co-Authors

Savas Dimopoulos
Savas Dimopoulos Stanford University
Nathan Seiberg
Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study
Yakir Aharonov
Yakir Aharonov Chapman University
Joseph Polchinski
Joseph Polchinski University of California, Santa Barbara
Eduardo Fradkin
Eduardo Fradkin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Igor R. Klebanov
Igor R. Klebanov Princeton University
Andrei Linde
Andrei Linde Stanford University
Edward Witten
Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study
Juan Maldacena
Juan Maldacena Institute for Advanced Study
Renata Kallosh
Renata Kallosh Stanford University

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