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Nathan Benjamin

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Nathan Benjamin
Email nathanbe@usc.edu Office SSC 216C

Education

  • Ph.D. Physics, Stanford University, 2018
  • B.S. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology, 2021 – 2024
    • Postdoctoral Scholar, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Princeton University, 2018 – 2021
    • (Fall 2024) PHYS 504. Advanced Mechanics, MW, 12:00pm – 01:50pm, KAP137
    • (Spring 2025) PHYS 678. Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, TTh, 12:00pm – 01:50pm

  • Journal Article

    • Benjamin, N., Chang, C., Fitzpatrick, A. L., Ramella, T. (2025). Properties of scalar partition functions of 2d CFTs. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 09, pp. 042. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Collier, S., Maloney, A., Meruliya, V. (2025). Resurgence in Liouville theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 01, pp. 038. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Lee, J., Pal, S., Simmons-Duffin, D., Xu, Y. (2024). Angular fractals in thermal QFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 11, pp. 134. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Fitzpatrick, A. L. (2024). Higher d Eisenstein series and a duality-invariant distance measure. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 04, pp. 142. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Lee, J., Ooguri, H., Simmons-Duffin, D. (2024). Universal asymptotics for high energy CFT data. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 03, pp. 115. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Collier, S., Maloney, A., Meruliya, V. (2023). Resurgence, conformal blocks, and the sum over geometries in quantum gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 05, pp. 166. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Collier, S., Kruthoff, J., Verlinde, H., Zhang, M. (2023). S-duality in TTbar-deformed CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 05, pp. 140. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Bintanja, S., Castro, A., Hollander, J. (2022). The stranger things of symmetric product orbifold CFTs. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 11, pp. 054. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Chang, C. (2022). Scalar modular bootstrap and zeros of the Riemann zeta function. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 11, pp. 143. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Keller, C. A., Ooguri, H., Zadeh, I. G. (2022). Narain to Narnia. Communications in Mathematical Physics. Vol. 390 (1), pp. 425–470. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Keller, C. A., Zadeh, I. G. (2021). Lifting 1/4-BPS states in Ad3xS3xT4. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 10, pp. 089. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Collier, S., Fitzpatrick, A. L., Maloney, A., Perlmutter, E. (2021). Harmonic analysis of 2d CFT partition functions. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 09, pp. 174. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Keller, C. A., Ooguri, H., Zadeh, I. G. (2021). On Rational Points in CFT Moduli Spaces. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 04, pp. 067. arXiv
    • Alday, L. F., Bae, J., Benjamin, N., Jorge-Diaz, C. (2020). On the Spectrum of Pure Higher Spin Gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 12, pp. 001. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Lin, Y. (2020). Lessons from the Ramond sector. SciPost Physics. Vol. 9 (5), pp. 065. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Collier, S., Maloney, A. (2020). Pure Gravity and Conical Defects. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 09, pp. 034. arXiv
    • Belin, A., Benjamin, N., Castro, A., Harrison, S. M., Keller, C. A. (2020). N=2 Minimal Models: A Holographic Needle in a Symmetric Orbifold Haystack. SciPost Physics. Vol. 8 (6), pp. 084. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Ooguri, H., Shao, S., Wang, Y. (2020). Twist gap and global symmetry in two dimensions. Physical Review D. Vol. 101 (10), pp. 106026. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Ooguri, H., Shao, S., Wang, Y. (2019). Light-cone modular bootstrap and pure gravity. Physical Review D. Vol. 100 (6), pp. 066029. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Dyer, E., Fitzpatrick, A. L., Xin, Y. (2019). The Most Irrational Rational Theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 04, pp. 025. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Kachru, S., Ono, K., Rolen, L. (2018). Black holes and class groups. Research in the Mathematical Sciences. Vol. 5 (4), pp. 43. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Harrison, S. M. (2017). Symmetries of the refined D1/D5 BPS spectrum. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 11, pp. 091. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Kachru, S., Tripathy, A. (2017). Counting spinning dyons in maximal supergravity: The Hodge-elliptic genus for tori. Letters in Mathematical Physics. Vol. 107 (11), pp. 2081–2092. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N. (2017). A Refined Count of BPS States in the D1/D5 System. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 06, pp. 028. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Dyer, E., Fitzpatrick, A. L., Kachru, S. (2016). Universal Bounds on Charged States in 2d CFT and 3d Gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 08, pp. 041. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Dyer, E., Fitzpatrick, A. L., Maloney, A., Perlmutter, E. (2016). Small Black Holes and Near-Extremal CFTs. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 08, pp. 023. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Kachru, S., Keller, C. A., Paquette, N. M. (2016). Emergent space-time and the supersymmetric index. Journal of High Energy Physics. Vol. 05, pp. 158. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Cheng, M. C., Kachru, S., Moore, G. W., Paquette, N. M. (2016). Elliptic Genera and 3d Gravity. Annales Henri Poincare. Vol. 17 (10), pp. 2623–2662. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Harrison, S. M., Kachru, S., Paquette, N. M., Whalen, D. (2015). On the Elliptic Genera of Manifolds of Spin(7) Holonomy. Annales Henri Poincare. Vol. 17 (10), pp. 2663–2697. arXiv
    • Benjamin, N., Dyer, E., Fitzpatrick, A. L., Kachru, S. (2015). An extremal N=2 superconformal field theory. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Vol. 48 (49), pp. 495401. arXiv
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