Staff profile

• mathematical physics
• quantum gravity
• string theory

• 2021: Royal Society URF panel member:
• 2009: Editorial Board member, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2009-2017:
• 2009: External examiner, undergraduate programmes, KCL, 2009-2017:
• 2001: EPSRC Advanced Fellowship, 2001-2006:

Journal Article

• Chakravarty, J., Maloney, A., Namjou, K., & Ross, S. F. (2024). A new observable for holographic cosmology. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(10), Article 184. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep10%282024%29184
• Anabalón, A., Gallerati, A., Ross, S., & Trigiante, M. (2023). Supersymmetric solitons in gauged N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 8 supergravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(2), Article 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282023%29055
• Berkooz, M., Brukner, N., Ross, S. F., & Watanabe, M. (2022). Going beyond ER=EPR in the SYK model. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(8), Article 51. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282022%29051
• Fallows, S., & Ross, S. F. (2022). Constraints on cosmologies inside black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(5), Article 094. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep05%282022%29094
• Iqbal, N., & Ross, S. F. (2022). Towards traversable wormholes from force-free plasmas. SciPost Physics, 12(3), Article 086. https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.12.3.086
• Ross, S. F. (2022). Cosmologies inside hyperbolic black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(11), Article 168. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282022%29168
• Fallows, S., & Ross, S. F. (2021). Islands and mixed states in closed universes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(7), Article 22. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282021%29022
• Anabalón, A., & Ross, S. F. (2021). Supersymmetric solitons and a degeneracy of solutions in AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep07%282021%29015
• Balasubramanian, V., Kar, A., Ross, S. F., & Ugajin, T. (2020). Spin structures and baby universes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(9), Article 192. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282020%29192
• Fallows, S., & Ross, S. F. (2020). Making near-extremal wormholes traversable. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(12), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep12%282020%29044
• Ross, S. F. (2019). Complexity and typical microstates. Physical Review D, 100(6), Article 066014. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.066014
• Maloney, A., Ng, G. S., Ross, S. F., & Tsiares, I. (2019). Generalized Gibbs ensemble and the statistics of KdV charges in 2D CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(3), Article 75. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03%282019%29075
• Maloney, A., Ng, G. S., Ross, S. F., & Tsiares, I. (2019). Thermal correlation functions of KdV charges in 2D CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(2), Article 44. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282019%29044
• Reynolds, A. P., & Ross, S. F. (2018). Complexity of the AdS soliton. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35(9), Article 095006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aab32d
• Balasubramanian, V., Lawrence, A., Rolph, A., & Ross, S. F. (2017). Entanglement shadows in LLM geometries. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017(11), Article 159. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11%282017%29159
• Reynolds, A. P., & Ross, S. F. (2017). Complexity in de Sitter space. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(17), Article 175013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa8122
• Reynolds, A., & Ross, S. F. (2017). Divergences in Holographic Complexity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(10), Article 105004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa6925
• Peach, A., & Ross, S. F. (2017). Tensor network models of multiboundary wormholes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(10), Article 105011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa6b0f
• Reynolds, A., & Ross, S. (2016). Butterflies with Rotation and Charge. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(21), Article 215008. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/21/215008
• Maloney, A., & Ross, S. F. (2016). Holography on non-orientable surfaces. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(18), Article 185006. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/18/185006
• Maxfield, H., Ross, S. F., & Way, B. (2016). Holographic partition functions and phases for higher genus Riemann surfaces. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 33(12), Article 125018. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/12/125018
• Marolf, D., Maxfield, H., Peach, A., & Ross, S. (2015). Hot multiboundary wormholes from bipartite entanglement. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32(21), https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/21/215006
• Lei, Y., & Ross, S. F. (2015). Connection versus metric description for non-AdS solutions in higher-spin theories. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32(18), Article 185005. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/18/185005
• Andrade, T., Keeler, C., Peach, A., & Ross, S. (2015). Schrödinger holography with z = 2. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32(8), https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/8/085006
• Monica, G., & Ross, S. F. (2015). Behind the geon horizon. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 32(5), Article 055014. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/32/5/055014
• Andrade, T., Keeler, C., Ross, S., & Peach, A. (2015). Schrödinger holography for z
• Andrade, T., Ross, S. F., & Lei, Y. (2014). Scattering amplitudes in Lifshitz spacetime. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(21), Article 215002. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/21/215002
• Balasubramanian, V., Hayden, P., Maloney, A., Marolf, D., & Ross, S. (2014). Multiboundary Wormholes and Holographic Entanglement. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(18), Article 185015. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/18/185015
• Bena, I., Ross, S., & Warner, N. (2014). On the oscillation of species. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(9), Article 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282014%29113
• Balasubramanian, V., Berkooz, M., Ross, S. F., & Simón, J. (2014). Black holes, entanglement and random matrices. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(18), https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/18/185009
• Bena, I., Ross, S. F., & Warner, N. P. (2014). Coiffured black rings. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(16), https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/16/165015
• Andrade, T., Fischetti, S., Marolf, D., Ross, S. F., & Rozali, M. (2014). Entanglement and correlations near extremality: CFTs dual to Reissner-Nordström AdS5. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(4), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04%282014%29023
• Lei, Y., & Ross, S. F. (2014). Extending the non-singular hyperscaling violating spacetimes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(3), Article 035007. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/3/035007
• Andrade, T., & Ross, S. F. (2013). Boundary conditions for metric fluctuations in Lifshitz. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 30(19), Article 195017. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195017
• Balasubramanian, V., Berkooz, M., Ross, S. F., & Simon, J. (2013). A strongly-coupled zig-zag transition. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(9), Article 66. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep09%282013%29066
• Andrade, T., & Ross, S. F. (2013). Boundary conditions for scalars in Lifshitz. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 30(6), Article 065009. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/30/6/065009
• Balasubramanian, V., Parsons, J., & Ross, S. F. (2011). States of a chiral 2D CFT. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28,
• Braviner, H., Gregory, R., & Ross, S. (2011). Flows involving Lifshitz solutions. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28(22), https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/28/22/225028
• Ross, S. (2011). Holography for asymptotically locally Lifshitz spacetimes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 28(21), Article 215019. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/28/21/215019
• le Witt, J., & Ross, S. F. (2010). Black holes and black strings in plane waves. Journal of High Energy Physics, 1001, https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep01%282010%29101
• Al-Alawi, J., & Ross, S. F. (2009). Spectral Flow of the Non-Supersymmetric Microstates of the D1-D5-KK System. Journal of High Energy Physics, 0910, https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/082
• Ross, S. F., & Saremi, O. (2009). Holographic stress tensor for non-relativistic theories. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(09), Article 009. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/009
• Figueras, P., Hubeny, V. E., Rangamani, M., & Ross, S. F. (2009). Dynamical black holes and expanding plasmas. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(04), Article 137. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/137
• Rangamani, M., Ross, S. F., Son, D., & Thompson, E. G. (2009). Conformal non-relativistic hydrodynamics from gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(01), Article 075. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/075
• Herzog, C. P., Rangamani, M., & Ross, S. F. (2008). Heating up Galilean holography. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(11), Article 080. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/080
• Gregory, R., Ross, S. F., & Zegers, R. (2008). Classical and quantum gravity of brane black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(09), Article 029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/029
• Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2008). Reversing renormalization-group flows with AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 0705, Article 055. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/055
• le Witt, J., & Ross, S. F. (2008). Asymptotically Plane Wave Spacetimes and their Actions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 0804, https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/084
• Rangamani, M., & Ross, S. F. (2008). Winding tachyons in BTZ. Physical Review D, D77, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.77.026010
• Ross, S. F. (2008). Summary of session D1: Quantum aspects of black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/25/11/114024
• Giusto, S., Ross, S. F., & Saxena, A. (2007). Non-supersymmetric microstates of the D1-D5-KK system. Journal of High Energy Physics, 0712, https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/065
• Gimon, E., Levi, T., & Ross, S. (2007). Geometry of non-supersymmetric three-charge bound states. Journal of High Energy Physics, 0708, https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/055
• Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2007). Boundary Conditions and New Dualities: Vector Fields in AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics, 11(2006),
• Ross, S. F. (2007). Non-supersymmetric asymptotically AdS_5 x S^5 smooth geometries. Journal of High Energy Physics, 01(2006),
• Hubeny, V. E., Rangamani, M., & Ross, S. F. (2005). Causally pathological space-times are physically relevant. International Journal of Modern Physics D, 14(12), 2227-2232. https://doi.org/10.1142/s0218271805007760
• Ross, S. F. (2005). Winding tachyons in asymptotically supersymmetric black strings. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10(2005),
• Hubeny, V. E., Rangamani, M., & Ross, S. F. (2005). Causal structures and holography. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2005(07), Article 037. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2005/07/037
• Jejjala, V., Madden, O., Ross, S., & Titchener, G. (2005). Nonsupersymmetric smooth geometries and D1-D5-P bound states. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 71(12), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.71.124030
• Ross, S. F., & Wiseman, T. (2005). Smeared D0 charge and the Gubser-Mitra conjecture. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 22, 2933-2946. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/22/14/006
• Ross, S. F., & Titchener, G. (2005). Time-dependent spacetimes in AdS/CFT: Bubble and black hole. Journal of High Energy Physics, 02(2005),
• Madden, O., & Ross, S. F. (2005). On uniqueness of charged Kerr-AdS black holes in five dimensions. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 22, 515-524
• Clunan, T., Ross, S. F., & Smith, D. J. (2004). On Gauss-Bonnet black hole entropy. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 21(14), 3447-3458. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/21/14/009
• Figueroa-O'Farrill, J., Madden, O., Ross, S. F., & Simon, J. (2004). Quotients of AdS(p+1) x S**q: Causally well-behaved spaces and black holes. Physical Review D, 69,
• Bostock, P., & Ross, S. F. (2004). Smeared branes and the Gubser-Mitra conjecture. Physical Review D, 70,
• Marolf, D., Minic, D., & Ross, S. F. (2004). Notes on space-time thermodynamics and the observer-dependence of entropy. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 69(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.69.064006
• Dimitriadis, A., Peet, A. W., Potvin, G., & Ross, S. F. (2004). Enhancon solutions: Pushing supergravity to its limits. Physical Review D, 70,
• Madden, O., & Ross, S. F. (2004). Quotients of anti-de Sitter space. Physical Review D, 70,
• Hubeny, V. E., Rangamani, M., & Ross, S. F. (2004). Causal inheritance in plane wave quotients. Physical Review D, 69 (2004), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.69.024007
• Dimitriadis, A., & Ross, S. F. (2004). Properties of non-extremal enhancons. Physical Review D, 69,
• Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2003). A new recipe for causal completions. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, 4085-4118
• Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2003). Plane waves and space-like infinity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 20, 4119-4133
• Levi, T. S., & Ross, S. F. (2003). Holography beyond the horizon and cosmic censorship. Physical Review D, 68,
• Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2002). Plane waves: To infinity and beyond!. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 19, 6289-6302. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/19/24/302
• Balasubramanian, V., & Ross, S. F. (2002). The dual of nothing. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 66(8), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.66.086002
• Dimitriadis, A., & Ross, S. F. (2002). Stability of the nonextremal enhancon solution: Perturbation equations. Physical Review D, 66,
• Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2002). Stringy negative tension branes and the second law of thermodynamics. Journal of High Energy Physics, 02(2004),
• Johnson, C. V., Myers, R. C., Peet, A. W., & Ross, S. F. (2001). The enhançon and the consistency of excision. Physical Review D, 64(10), Article 106001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.106001
• Balasubramanian, V., de Boer, J., Keski-Vakkuri, E., & Ross, S. F. (2001). Supersymmetric conical defects: towards a string theoretic description of black hole formation. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 64(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.064011
• Gregory, J. P., & Ross, S. F. (2001). Stability and the negative mode for Schwarzschild in a finite cavity. Physical Review D, 64,
• Gregory, J. P., & Ross, S. F. (2001). Looking for event horizons using UV/IR relations. Physical Review D, 63,
• Louko, J., Marolf, D., & Ross, S. F. (2000). On geodesic propagators and black hole holography. Physical Review D, 62,
• Balasubramanian, V., & Ross, S. F. (2000). Holographic particle detection. Physical Review D, 61,
• Giddings, S. B., & Ross, S. F. (2000). D3-brane shells to black branes on the Coulomb branch. Physical Review D, 61,
• Peet, A. W., & Ross, S. F. (1998). Microcanonical phases of string theory on AdS_m x S^n. Journal of High Energy Physics, 12(1998), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/1998/12/020
• Ross, S. F. (1998). Singularities in wavy strings. Journal of High Energy Physics, 08(1998), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/1998/08/003
• Horowitz, G. T., & Ross, S. F. (1998). Possible resolution of black hole singularities from large N gauge theory. Journal of High Energy Physics, 04(1998), https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/1998/04/015
• Horowitz, G. T., & Ross, S. F. (1998). Properties of naked black holes. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 57, 1098-1107. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.57.1098
• Hawking, S., & Ross, S. F. (1997). Loss of quantum coherence through scattering off virtual black holes. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 56, 6403-6415. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.56.6403
• Horowitz, G. T., & Ross, S. F. (1997). Naked black holes. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 56, 2180-2187. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.56.2180
• Ross, S. F. (1995). Pair creation rate for $U(1)^2$ black holes. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 52, 7089-7097. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.7089
• Hawking, S., & Ross, S. F. (1995). Duality between electric and magnetic black holes. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 52, 5865-5876. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.5865
• Hawking, S., & Ross, S. F. (1995). Pair production of black holes on cosmic strings. Physical Review Letters, 75, 3382-3385. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.3382
• Mann, R. B., & Ross, S. F. (1995). Cosmological production of charged black hole pairs. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 52, 2254-2265. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.52.2254
• Hawking, S., Horowitz, G. T., & Ross, S. F. (1995). Entropy, Area, and black hole pairs. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 51, 4302-4314. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.51.4302
• Ross, S. F. (1994). Pair production of black holes in a U(1) x U(1) theory. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 49, 6599-6605. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.49.6599
• Mann, R. B., & Ross, S. F. (1993). Gravitationally collapsing dust in (2+1)-dimensions. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 47, 3319-3322. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.47.3319
• Mann, R. B., Morris, M. S., & Ross, S. F. (1993). Properties of asymptotically flat two-dimensional black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 10, 1477-1494. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/10/8/010
• Mann, R. B., & Ross, S. F. (1993). The D -> 2 limit of general relativity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 10, 1405-1408. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/10/7/015
• Mann, R. B., & Ross, S. F. (1993). Gravitation and cosmology in (1+1)-dimensional dilaton gravity. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 47, 3312-3318. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.47.3312
• Mann, R. B., & Ross, S. F. (1992). Matching conditions and gravitational collapse in two-dimensional gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 9, 2335-2350. https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/9/10/016