BIMSA > Luis Apolo Velez
Assistant Professor Luis Apolo Velez

Group: Quantum Fields and Strings

Email: apolo@bimsa.cn

Research Field: Mathematical Physics

Webpage: http://lui-apolo.github.io

Research Interest

  • Quantum gravity, string theory, holography

Education Experience

  • 2009 - 2014      New York University      Theoretical Physics      Doctor      Thesis: “Variations on holography from modifications of gravity in anti-de Sitter”      (Supervisor: Massimo Porrati)
  • 2005 - 2009      City College of New York      Physics and Mathematics      Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2023 -      BIMSA      Assistant Professor
  • 2021 - 2023      University of Amsterdam      Postdoc
  • 2020 - 2021      BIMSA      Assistant Professor
  • 2017 - 2020      Tsinghua University      Postdoc
  • 2014 - 2017      Stockholm University      Postdoc
  • 2011 - 2014      New York University      Graduate Research Assistant

Publication

  • [1] L. Apolo, S. Bintanja, A. Castro, D. Liska, The light we can see: Extracting black holes from weak Jacobi forms, JHEP, 10 (2024)
  • [2] L. Apolo, A. Belin, S. Bintanja, Searching for strongly coupled AdS matter with multi-trace deformations, arXiv:2401.15141 (2024)
  • [3] L Apolo, PX Hao, WX Lai, W Song, Extremal surfaces in glue-on AdS/$ T\overline{T} $holography, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(1), 1-38 (2024)
  • [4] L. Apolo, P. Hao, W. Lai, W. Song,, Extremal surfaces in glue-on AdS/TTbar holography, JHEP, 01 (2024)
  • [5] L Apolo, A Belin, S Bintanja, A Castro, CA Keller, Conformal field theories dual to quantum gravity with strongly coupled matter, Physical Review D, 108(6), L061901 (2023)
  • [6] L Apolo, PX Hao, WX Lai, W Song, Glue-on AdS holography for$ T\overline{T} $-deformed CFTs, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(6), 1-33 (2023)
  • [7] L Apolo, W Song, B Yu, On the universal behavior of$ T\overline{T} $-deformed CFTs: single and double-trace partition functions at large c, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(5), 1-30 (2023)
  • [8] L. Apolo, A. Belin, S. Bintanja, A. Castro, C. A. Keller, CFTs dual to quantum gravity with strongly coupled matter, Phys. Rev. D, 108 (2023)
  • [9] L. Apolo, P. Hao, W. Lai, W. Song, Glue-on AdS holography for TTbar-deformed CFTs, JHEP, 06 (2023)
  • [10] L. Apolo, W.Song, B. Yu, On the universal behavior of TTbar-deformed CFTs: single and double-trace partition functions at large c, JHEP, 05 (2023)
  • [11] L. Apolo, A. Belin, S. Bintanja, A. Castro, C. A. Keller, Deforming symmetric product orbifolds: a tale of moduli and higher spin currents, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(8), 1-46 (2022)
  • [12] L Apolo, W Song, TsT, black holes, and T (T) over-bar+ J (T) over-bar+ T (J) over-bar, JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS(4) (2022)
  • [13] L Apolo, W Song, TsT, black holes, and$ T\overline{T} $+$ J\overline{T} $+$ T\overline{J} $, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022(4), 1-57 (2022)
  • [14] L. Apolo, W. Song, TsT, black holes, and TT + JT + TJ, JHEP, 04 (2022)
  • [15] L Apolo, W Song, TsT, black holes, and, arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02243 (2021)
  • [16] L. Apolo, H. Jiang, W. Song , Y. Zhong, Swing surfaces and holographic entanglement beyond AdS/CFT, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(12), 1-49 (2020)
  • [17] L Apolo, H Jiang, W Song, Y Zhong, Modular Hamiltonians in flat holography and (W) AdS/WCFT, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(9), 1-47 (2020)
  • [18] A Luis, D Stephane, W Song, TsT, TT and black strings, Journal of High Energy Physics(6) (2020)
  • [19] L Apolo, S Detournay, W Song, TsT,$ \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{T}} $and black strings, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(6), 1-50 (2020)
  • [20] L Apolo, W Song, Heating up holography for single-trace$ J\overline{T} $deformations, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(1), 1-40 (2020)
  • [21] L. Apolo, W. Song, Heating up holography for single-trace J . T deformations, JHEP, 1(1), 141 (2020)
  • [22] L. Apolo,S. Detournay,W. Song, TsT, T . T and black strings, JHEP, 149(2)(06), 109 (2020)
  • [23] L. Apolo, H. Jiang, W. Song and Y. Zhong, Modular Hamiltonians in flat holography and (W)AdS/WCFT, JHEP 09 (2020) 033 [2006.10741]
  • [24] L. Apolo, S. He, W. Song, J. Xu, J. Zheng, Entanglement and chaos in warped conformal field theories, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(4), 1-32 (2019)
  • [25] L Apolo, W Song, Strings on warped AdS3 via$ \mathrm{T}\overline{\mathrm{J}} $deformations, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(10), 1-19 (2018)
  • [26] L. Apolo, W. Song, Bootstrapping holographic warped CFTs or: how I learned to stop worrying and tolerate negative norms, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(7), 1-34 (2018)
  • [27] L. Apolo, W. Song, Strings on warped AdS3 via TJ¯ deformations, JHEP, 149(2), 100-117 (2018)
  • [28] L Apolo, Bounds on CFTs with$W3$algebras and$AdS3$higher spin theories, Physical Review D, 96(8), 086003 (2017)
  • [29] L Apolo, SF Hassan, Non-linear partially massless symmetry in an SO (1, 5) continuation of conformal gravity, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 34(10), 105005 (2017)
  • [30] L. Apolo, S. F. Hassan, Non-linear partially massless symmetry in an SO(1,5) continuation of conformal gravity, Class. Quant. Grav., 34(2017), 105005 (2017)
  • [31] L. Apolo, B. Sundborg, The Sky is the Limit: Free Boundary Conditions in AdSChern-Simons Theory, Higher Spin Gauge Theories, 305-316 (2017)
  • [32] L. Apolo, Bounds on CFTs with W3 algebras and AdS3 higher spin theories, Phys. Rev. D96, 96(86003) (2017)
  • [33] L Apolo, SF Hassan, A Lundkvist, Gauge and global symmetries of the candidate partially massless bimetric gravity, Physical Review D, 94(12), 124055 (2016)
  • [34] L. Apolo, The covariant action of higher spin black holes in three dimensions, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016(5), 1-27 (2016)
  • [35] L. Apolo, S. F. Hassan and A. Lundkvist, Gauge and global symmetries of the candidate partially massless bimetric gravity, Phys. Rev. D94 (2016) 124055 [1609.09515]
  • [36] L. Apolo, B. Sundborg, Strings from 3D gravity: asymptotic dynamics of AdS3 gravity with free boundary conditions, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015(6), 1-22 (2015)
  • [37] L. Apolo, M. Porrati, Free boundary conditions and the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014(3), 1-27 (2014)
  • [38] G Claussen, L Apolo, O Melchert, AK Hartmann, Analysis of the loop length distribution for the negative-weight percolation problem in dimensions$d=2$through$d=6$, Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 86(5), 056708 (2012)
  • [39] L Apolo, M Porrati, On AdS/CFT without massless gravitons, Physics Letters B, 714(2-5), 309-311 (2012)
  • [40] L. Apolo, M. Porrati, Nonlinear dynamics of parity-even tricritical gravity in three and four dimensions, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(8), 1-20 (2012)
  • [41] G. Claussen, L. Apolo, O. Melchert and A. K. Hartmann, Analysis of the loop length distribution for the negative weight percolation problem in dimensions d=2 through 6, Phys. Rev. E86 (2012) 056708 [1207.2893]
  • [42] L. Apolo and M. Porrati, On AdS/CFT without Massless Gravitons, Phys. Lett. B714 (2012) 309 [1205.4956]
  • [43] O. Melchert, L. Apolo, A. K. Hartmann, Upper critical dimension of the negative-weight percolation problem, Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 81(5), 051108 (2010)
  • [44] AK Hartmann, O Melchert, L Apolo, Negative-weight percolation, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 55 (2010)
  • [45] L. Apolo, O. Melchert, A. K. Hartmann, Phase transitions in diluted negative-weight percolation models, Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 79(3), 031103 (2009)
  • [46] L Apolo, H Jiang, W Song, Y Zhong, Swing surfaces and holographic entanglement beyond AdS, arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.10740, 2006 (2006)
  • [47] L Apolo, PX Hao, WX Lai, W Song, Extremal surfaces in glue-on AdS/ holography, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024(1), 1-38 (2024)
  • [48] L Apolo, PX Hao, WX Lai, W Song, Glue-on AdS holography for -deformed CFTs, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(6), 1-33 (2023)
  • [49] L Apolo, W Song, B Yu, On the universal behavior of -deformed CFTs: single and double-trace partition functions at large c, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023(5), 1-30 (2023)
  • [50] L Apolo, W Song, TsT, black holes, and + + , Journal of High Energy Physics, 4, 1-57 (2022)
  • [51] L Apolo, S Detournay, W Song, TsT, and black strings, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(6), 1-50 (2020)
  • [52] L Apolo, W Song, Heating up holography for single-trace deformations, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020(1), 1-40 (2020)
  • [53] L Apolo, W Song, Strings on warped AdS3 via deformations, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018(10), 1-19 (2018)
  • [54] L Apolo, Bounds on CFTs with algebras and higher spin theories, Physical Review D, 96(8), 086003 (2017)
  • [55] G Claussen, L Apolo, O Melchert, AK Hartmann, Analysis of the loop length distribution for the negative-weight percolation problem in dimensions through , Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 86 (2012)
  • [56] L Apolo, M Porrati, Free boundary conditions and the AdS3/CFT2,

 

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