Professor Jorge Eduardo Pinto Santos | Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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Career

2022-: Professor of Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University

2018-2022: Reader in Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University

2019-2020: Junior Visiting Professor, J. Robert Oppenheimer Visiting Professorship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

2013-2018: Lecturer in Theoretical Physics, DAMTP, Cambridge University

2013-2014: Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University

2010-2013: Postdoctoral fellow, University of California at Santa Barbara

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2006-2010: Ph.D at DAMTP
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Research

General relativity, quantum gravity, gravitational aspects of string theory, numerical relativity and applications of general relativity to condensed matter physics via holography.

Research Students:

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William Boyce (2024-)
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John Crump (2021-)
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William Biggs (2020-2024)
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João Melo (2017-2023)
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Bogdan Ganchev (2016 - 2020)
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Toby Crisford (2015 - 2019)
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Julija Markevičiūtė (2014 - 2018)
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Selected Publications

Spinning Black Binaries in de Sitter Space, Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 19, 191401.

Static Black Binaries in de Sitter, Oscar J.C. Dias, Gary W. Gibbons, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 131401.

Extremal Kerr Black Holes as Amplifiers of New Physics, Gary T. Horowitz, Maciej Kolanowski, Grant N. Remmen, Jorge E. Santos, Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 9, 091402.

Oscar J. C. Dias, Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, Extremal black holes that are not extremal: maximal warm holes, JHEP 01 (2022) 064.

Donald Marolf, J. E. Santos, AdS Euclidean Wormholes, Class. Quant. Grav. 38 (2021) 22, 224002.

J. E. Santos, To go or not to go with the flow: Hawking radiation at strong coupling, JHEP 06 (2020) 104.

Ahmed Almheiri, Raghu Mahajan and Jorge E. Santos, Entanglement islands in higher dimensions, SciPost Phys. 9 (2020) 1, 001.

Matthew W. Choptuik, Oscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way, Collapse and Nonlinear Instability of AdS with Angular Momenta, Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) 2, 021103.

Toby Crisford and Jorge E. Santos, Violating the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture in Four-Dimensional Anti–de Sitter Space, Phys.Rev.Lett. 118 (2017) no.18, 181101.

Oscar J. C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos and Benson Way, Localised AdS5 x S5 Black Holes, Phys.Rev.Lett. 117 (2016) no. 15, 151101

Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, Black holes with a single Killing vector field: black resonators, JHEP 1512 (2015) 171.

Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, Neutral Black Rings in Five Dimensions are Unstable, Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) 221101.

Oscar J. C. Dias, Mahdi Godazgar, Jorge E. Santos, Linear Mode Stability of the Kerr-Newman Black Hole and Its Quasinormal Modes, Phys.Rev.Lett. 114 (2015) no.15, 151101.

Sean A. Hartnoll, Jorge E. Santos, Disordered horizons: Holography of randomly disordered fixed points, Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014) 231601.

Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, General Relativity and the Cuprates, JHEP, 2013.

Sebastian Fischetti, Donald Marolf, Jorge E. Santos, AdS flowing black funnels: Stationary AdS black holes with non-Killing horizons and heat transport in the dual CFT, Class. Quant. Grav., 2013.

Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, David Tong, Optical Conductivity with Holographic Lattices, JHEP, 2012.

Oscar J.C. Dias, Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, Gravitational Turbulent Instability of Anti-de Sitter Space, Class. Quant. Grav., 2012.

Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, Benson Way, A Holographic Josephson Junction, Phys. Rev. Lett, 2011.

Miguel S. Costa, Ricardo Monteiro, Jorge E. Santos, Dimitrios Zoakos, On three-point correlation functions in the gauge/gravity duality, JHEP, 2010.

Oscar J.C. Dias, Pau Figueras, Ricardo Monteiro, Harvey S. Reall, Jorge E. Santos, An instability of higher-dimensional rotating black holes, JHEP, 2010.

Oscar J.C. Dias, Pau Figueras, Ricardo Monteiro, Jorge E. Santos, Roberto Emparan, Instability and new phases of higher-dimensional rotating black holes, Phys. Rev. D., 2009.

Oscar J.C. Dias, Harvey S. Reall, Jorge E. Santos, Kerr-CFT and gravitational perturbations , JHEP, 2009.

Publications

Hairy black holes in AdS5 x S⁵

J Markeviciute, JE Santos

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2016)

96,

96

(doi: 10.1007/jhep06(2016)096)

Numerical methods for finding stationary gravitational solutions

OJC Dias, JE Santos, B Way

– Classical and Quantum Gravity

(2016)

33,

133001

(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/33/13/133001)

Polarised black holes in AdS

MS Costa, L Greenspan, M Oliveira, J Penedones, JE Santos

– Classical and Quantum Gravity

(2016)

33,

115011

(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/33/11/115011)

Thermal conductivity at a disordered quantum critical point

SA Hartnoll, DM Ramirez, JE Santos

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2016)

2016,

22

(doi: 10.1007/JHEP04(2016)022)

Entropy production, viscosity bounds and bumpy black holes

SA Hartnoll, DM Ramirez, JE Santos

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2016)

2016,

170

(doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)170)

Black holes with a single Killing vector field: black resonators

ÓJC Dias, JE Santos, B Way

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2015)

2015,

1

(doi: 10.1007/jhep12(2015)171)

On the stability of gravity with Dirichlet walls

T Andrade, WR Kelly, D Marolf, JE Santos

– Classical and Quantum Gravity

(2015)

32,

235006

(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/32/23/235006)

Emergent scale invariance of disordered horizons

SA Hartnoll, DM Ramirez, JE Santos

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2015)

2015,

160

(doi: 10.1007/jhep09(2015)160)

Neutral Black Rings in Five Dimensions are Unstable.

JE Santos, B Way

– Physical review letters

(2015)

114,

221101

(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.114.221101)

Hovering black holes from charged defects

GT Horowitz, N Iqbal, JE Santos, B Way

– Classical and Quantum Gravity

(2015)

32,

105001

(doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/32/10/105001)