Staff
Dr Benjamin Withers
Research Associate in the Department of Mathematical Sciences
Research Groups
- Mathematical Physics
Research Interests
- General Relativity and Cosmology
- AdS/CFT with applications to condensed matter physics
Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Adam, A., Crampton, B., Sonner, J. & Withers, B. (2012). Bosonic Fractionalisation Transitions.
- Gentle, S.A. & Withers, B. (2012). Superconducting instabilities of R-charged black branes. Journal of High Energy Physics 2012(10).
- Gentle, S. A, Rangamani, M & Withers, B (2011). A soliton menagerie in AdS. Journal of High Energy Physics 2012(05).
- Rangamani, M & Withers, B (2011). Fermionic probes of local quantum criticality in one dimension. Physical Review D 84(8): 086003.
- Wiseman, T & Withers, B (2011). Inhomogeneous post-inflationary ΛCDM cosmology as a moduli space expansion. Physical Review D 84(12): 123517.
- Wiseman, T & Withers, B (2011). Late time solutions for inhomogeneous ΛCDM cosmology, their characterization, and observation. Physical Review D 83(2): 023511.
- Sonner, J & Withers, B (2010). Gravity derivation of the Tisza-Landau model in AdS/CFT. Physical Review D 82(2): 026001.
- Withers, B (2009). Einstein-aether as a quantum effective field theory. Classical and Quantum Gravity 26(22): 225009.
- Wiseman, T & Withers, B (2008). Holographic renormalization for coincident Dp-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics 2008(10): 037.
- Contaldi, C.R, Wiseman, T & Withers, B (2008). TeVeS gets caught on caustics. Physical Review D 78(4).