Professor Jorge Eduardo Pinto Santos | Faculty of Mathematics

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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, gravitational aspects of string theory, numerical relativity, holography, and the theoretical foundations of quantum gravity.

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

Low Energy Limit of Banks-Fischler-Shenker-Susskind Quantum Mechanics, Oscar J.C. Dias and Jorge E. Santos, Phys.Rev.Lett. 134 (2025) 23, 231402.

Spinning Black Binaries in de Sitter Space, Oscar J.C. Dias, Jorge E. Santos and 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 and Benson Way, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 131401.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Publications

Origin of the Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter instability

OJC Dias, JE Santos

– Physical Review D

(2020)

102,

124039

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.124039)

Covariant Noether charges for type IIB and 11-dimensional supergravities

ÓJC Dias, GS Hartnett, JE Santos

– Classical and Quantum Gravity

(2020)

38,

015003

(doi: 10.1088/1361-6382/abc136)

Gravitational duals to the grand canonical ensemble abhor Cauchy horizons

SA Hartnoll, GT Horowitz, J Kruthoff, JE Santos

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2020)

2020,

102

(doi: 10.1007/jhep10(2020)102)

Superradiant instability of black resonators and geons

T Ishii, K Murata, JE Santos, B Way

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2020)

2020,

206

(doi: 10.1007/JHEP07(2020)206)

Entanglement islands in higher dimensions

A Almheiri, R Mahajan, J Santos

– SciPost Physics

(2020)

9,

001

(doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.9.1.001)

To go or not to go with the flow: Hawking radiation at strong coupling

JE Santos

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2020)

2020,

104

(doi: 10.1007/JHEP06(2020)104)

Developing local RG: quantum RG and BFSS

JF Melo, JE Santos

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2020)

2020,

63

(doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2020)063)

Massive vector fields in Kerr-Newman and Kerr-Sen black hole spacetimes

R Cayuso, OJC Dias, F Gray, D Kubizňák, A Margalit, JE Santos, RG Souza, L Thiele

– Journal of High Energy Physics

(2020)

2020,

159

(doi: 10.1007/jhep04(2020)159)

Plausible scenario for a generic violation of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in asymptotically flat four dimensions

FC Eperon, B Ganchev, JE Santos

– Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

(2020)

101,

041502

(doi: 10.1103/physrevd.101.041502)

The BTZ black hole violates strong cosmic censorship

OJC Dias, HS Reall, JE Santos

– The Journal of High Energy Physics

(2019)

2019,

97

(doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2019)097)