BIMSA > Babak Haghighat
Associate Professor Babak Haghighat

Affiliation: YMSC, BIMSA

Group: Quantum Fields and Strings

Email: babakhaghighat@bimsa.cn

Research Field: String Theory

Webpage: https://ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1032/1214.htm

Biography

Associate Professor, research interests are string theory, quantum field theory and topological field theory.

Publication

  • [1] Jin Chen, Wei Cui, Babak Haghighat, Yi-Nan Wang, SymTFTs and Duality Defects from 6d SCFTs on 4-manifolds, JHEP, 2023(2023), 208
  • [2] Xia Gu, Babak Haghighat, Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes phenomena (2023)
  • [3] Jin Chen, Zhuo Chen, Wei Cui, Babak Haghighat, MSW-type compactifications of 6d (1,0) SCFTs on 4-manifolds(2023)
  • [4] Xia Gu, Babak Haghighat and Yihua Liu, Ising-like and Fibonacci anyons from KZ-equations (2022)
  • [5] J Chen, B Haghighat, HC Kim, K Lee, M Sperling, X Wang, Elliptic quantum curves of 6d SO (N) theories, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(3), 1-61 (2022)
  • [6] Y Sun, B Haghighat, Phase Transitions in Large Language Models and the$O(N)$Model, arXiv (2025)
  • [7] S Gukov, B Haghighat, N Reshetikhin, Foams and KZ-equations in Rozansky-Witten theories, Nuclear Physics B, 116856 (2025)
  • [8] J Chen, W Cui, B Haghighat, Y Sun, Modularity of Vafa-Witten Partition Functions from SymTFT, arXiv (2024)
  • [9] W Cui, B Haghighat, L Ruggeri, Non-invertible surface defects in 2+ 1d QFTs from half spacetime gauging, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(11), 1-62 (2024)
  • [10] S Gukov, B Haghighat, Y Liu, N Reshetikhin, Irregular KZ equations and Kac-Moody representations, arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.16929 (2024)
  • [11] J Chen, B Haghighat, QR Wang, Para-fusion Category and Topological Defect Lines in$\mathbb Z_N$-parafermionic CFTs, arXiv (2023)
  • [12] B Haghighat, Y Liu, N Reshetikhin, Flat Connections from Irregular Conformal Blocks, arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07960 (2023)
  • [13] B Haghighat, Y Sun, Topological defect lines in bosonized parafermionic CFTs, arXiv (2023)
  • [14] J Chen, B Haghighat, QR Wang, Para-fusion Category and Topological Defect Lines in ZN-parafermionic CFTs, arXiv (2023)
  • [15] X Gu, B Haghighat, K Loo, Irregular Fibonacci Conformal Blocks, arXiv (2023)
  • [16] J Chen, Z Chen, W Cui, B Haghighat, MSW-type compactifications of 6d$(1,0)$SCFTs on 4-manifolds, arXiv (2022)
  • [17] AP Braun, J Chen, B Haghighat, M Sperling, S Yang, Fibre-base duality of 5d KK theories, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(5), 1-68 (2021)
  • [18] M Noormandipour, S Youran, B Haghighat, Restricted Boltzmann machine representation for the groundstate and excited states of Kitaev Honeycomb model, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 3(1), 015010 (2021)
  • [19] J Chen, B Haghighat, HC Kim, M Sperling, X Wang, E-string quantum curve, Nuclear Physics B, 973, 115602 (2021)
  • [20] J Gu, B Haghighat, A Klemm, K Sun, X Wang, Elliptic blowup equations for 6d SCFTs. Part IV. matters, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(11), 1-170 (2021)
  • [21] J Chen, B Haghighat, HC Kim, M Sperling, Elliptic quantum curves of class$ {\mathcal{S}}_k $, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021(3), 1-75 (2021)
  • [22] J Gu, B Haghighat, A Klemm, K Sun, X Wang, Elliptic blowup equations for 6d SCFTs. Part III. E-strings, M-strings and chains, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(7), 1-56 (2020)
  • [23] J Chen, B Haghighat, S Liu, M Sperling, 4d$ \mathcal{N} $= 1 from 6d D-type$ \mathcal{N} $= (1, 0), Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(1), 1-39 (2020)
  • [24] D Krefl, S Carrazza, B Haghighat, J Kahlen, Riemann-theta boltzmann machine, Neurocomputing, 388, 334-345 (2020)
  • [25] J Gu, B Haghighat, K Sun, X Wang, Blowup equations for 6d SCFTs. Part I, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(3), 1-53 (2019)
  • [26] B Haghighat, R Sun, M5 branes and Theta Functions, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(10), 1-27 (2019)
  • [27] B Haghighat, J Kim, W Yan, ST Yau, D-type fiber-base duality, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(9), 1-34 (2018)
  • [28] A Gadde, B Haghighat, J Kim, S Kim, G Lockhart, C Vafa, 6d string chains, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(2) (2018)
  • [29] B Haghighat, W Yan, ST Yau, ADE string chains and mirror symmetry, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(1), 1-30 (2018)
  • [30] B Haghighat, Mirror symmetry and modularity, arXiv (2017)
  • [31] B Haghighat, From strings in 6d to strings in 5d, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(1), 1-15 (2016)
  • [32] B Haghighat, S Murthy, C Vafa, S Vandoren, F-theory, spinning black holes and multi-string branches, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(1), 1-54 (2016)
  • [33] B Haghighat, W Yan, M-strings in thermodynamic limit: Seiberg-Witten geometry, arXiv (2016)
  • [34] B Haghighat, A Klemm, G Lockhart, C Vafa, Strings of minimal 6d SCFTs, Fortschritte der Physik, 63(5), 294-322 (2015)
  • [35] B Haghighat, A Iqbal, C Kozçaz, G Lockhart, C Vafa, M-strings, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 334(2), 779-842 (2015)
  • [36] B Haghighat, H Movasati, ST Yau, Calabi-Yau modular forms in limit: Elliptic Fibrations, arXiv (2015)
  • [37] M Alim, B Haghighat, M Hecht, A Klemm, M Rauch, T Wotschke, Wall-crossing holomorphic anomaly and mock modularity of multiple M5-branes, Communications in Mathematical Physics, 339(3), 773-814 (2015)
  • [38] B Haghighat, G Lockhart, C Vafa, Fusing E-strings to heterotic strings:$E+E→H$, Physical Review D, 90(12), 126012 (2014)
  • [39] C Córdova, S Espahbodi, B Haghighat, A Rastogi, C Vafa, Tangles, generalized Reidemeister moves, and three-dimensional mirror symmetry, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(5), 1-70 (2014)
  • [40] B Haghighat, C Kozcaz, G Lockhart, C Vafa, Orbifolds of M-strings, Physical Review D, 89(4), 046003 (2014)
  • [41] B Haghighat, G Lockhart, C Vafa, E + E$\rightarrow$H, arXiv (2014)
  • [42] B Haghighat, J Manschot, S Vandoren, A 5d/2d/4d correspondence, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013(3), 1-38 (2013)
  • [43] B Haghighat, S Vandoren, Five-dimensional gauge theory and compactification on a torus, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011(9), 1-30 (2011)
  • [44] B Haghighat, A Klemm, Solving the topological string on K3 fibrations, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010(1), 1-52 (2010)
  • [45] B Haghighat, On topological string theory with Calabi-Yau backgrounds (2010)
  • [46] B Haghighat, On topological string theory with Calabi-Yau backgrounds: modularity and boundary conditions, (No Title) (2010)
  • [47] B Haghighat, A Klemm, Topological strings on grassmannian Calabi-Yau manifolds, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009(1), 029 (2009)
  • [48] B Haghighat, A Klemm, M Rauch, Integrability of the holomorphic anomaly equations, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(10), 097 (2008)
  • [49] J Gu, B Haghighat, A Klemm, K Sun, X Wang, Elliptic blowup equations for 6d SCFTs. IV: matters, arXiv
  • [50] B Haghighat, Orbifold Compactifications with Flux Backgrounds

 

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