Matthew Headrick

Professor of Physics

Departments/Programs

Physics

Degrees

Harvard University, Ph.D.
Harvard University, M.A.
Princeton University, A.B.

Expertise

Theoretical high-energy and gravitational physics and related areas of theoretical physics and mathematics, including string theory, quantum field theory, quantum gravity, general relativity, geometry, quantum information theory, and statistical mechanics.

Profile

Matthew Headrick is a member of the Brandeis Quantum and Gravitational Theory group. He conducts research in string theory and related areas of theoretical and mathematical physics. He is currently interested in better understanding the role of entanglement in quantum field theories, quantum gravity theories, and holographic dualities connecting them. Webpage

Courses Taught

PHYS	30a	Electromagnetism
PHYS	91g	Introduction to Research Practice
PHYS	162b	Quantum Mechanics II
PHYS	164a	First Year Tutorial I
PHYS	202a	Quantum Field Theory

Awards and Honors

Outstanding Referee of the American Physical Society (2017)

Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics (2017)

National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2011 - 2016)

Scholarship

Matthew Headrick and Barton Zwiebach. "Convex programs for minimal-area problems." Communications in Mathematical Physics 377 (2020): 2217–2285.

Matthew Headrick and Barton Zwiebach. "Minimal-area metrics on the Swiss cross and punctured torus." Communications in Mathematical Physics (2020): <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-020-03734-z>.

Matthew Headrick, Jesse Held, and Joel Herman. Crossing versus locking: Bit threads and continuum multiflows. 2020.

Cesar Agon, Matthew Headrick, and Brian Swingle. "Subsystem complexity and holography." Journal of High Energy Physics 2019. 145 (2019).

Jonathan Harper and Matthew Headrick. "Bit threads and holographic entanglement of purification." Journal of High Energy Physics (2019): <https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2019)101>.

Matthew Headrick. "Lectures on entanglement entropy in field theory and holography." (2019): <https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08126>.

Shawn X. Cui, Patrick Hayden, Temple He, Matthew Headrick, Bogdan Stoica, and Michael Walter. "Bit threads and holographic monogamy." Communications in Mathematical Physics (2019): <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-019-03510-8>.

Temple He, Matthew Headrick, and Veronika E. Hubeny. "Holographic entropy relations repackaged." Journal of High Energy Physics (2019): <https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2019)118>.

Jonathan Harper, Matthew Headrick, and Andrew Rolph. "Bit threads in higher curvature gravity." Journal of High Energy Physics 11. 168 (2018).

Matthew Headrick and Veronika Hubeny. "Riemannian and Lorentzian flow-cut theorems." Classical and Quantum Gravity 35. 10 (2018).

Matthew Headrick. "Quantum entanglement and the geometry of spacetime." Newsletter of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore 2018.

Matthew Headrick. Entanglement in field theory and holography. Proc. of TASI '17: Physics at the Fundamental Frontier. Proceedings of Science, 2018.

Matthew Headrick and Rob Myers, David Garfinkle. Conference report on "Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity III". 2017.

Michael Freedman and Matthew Headrick. "Bit threads and holographic entanglement." Communications in Mathematical Physics 352. 1 (2017): 407-438.

Matthew Headrick, Alexander Maloney, Eric Perlmutter, and Ida G. Zadeh. "Renyi entropies, the analytic bootstrap, and 3D quantum gravity at higher genus." JHEP 07. (2015): 059.

Cesar A. Agon, Matthew Headrick, Daniel L. Jafferis, and Skyler Kasko. "Disk entanglement entropy for a Maxwell field." Phys. Rev. D. 89 (2014): 025018.

Matthew Headrick, Robert C. Myers, and Jason Wien. "Holographic holes and differential entropy." JHEP 10 (2014): 085.

Matthew Headrick, Veronika Hubeny, Albion Lawrence, and Mukund Rangamani. "Causailty and holographic entanglement entropy." JHEP 12 (2014): 162.

Matthew Headrick. "General properties of holographic entanglement entropy." JHEP 2014. 03 (2014): 085.

Matthew Headrick, Albion Lawrence, and Matthew M. Roberts. "Bose-Fermi duality and entanglement entropies." J. Stat. Mech. 2013. 1302 (2013): P02022.

Patrick Hayden, Matthew Headrick, and Alex Maloney. "Holographic mutual information is monogamous." Phys. Rev. D. 87 (2013): 046003.

Robert Callan, Jianyang He, and Matthew Headrick. "Strong subadditivity and the covariant holographic entanglement entropy formula." JHEP 2012. 6 (2012): 81.

Hajar Ebrahim and Matthew Headrick. "Instantaneous thermalization in holographic plasmas." (2010): <http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5443>.

Matthew Headrick, Sam Kitchen, and Toby Wiseman. "A new approach to static numerical relativity, and its application to Kaluza-Klein black holes." Class. Quant. Grav. 27. 035 (2010): 002.

Matthew Headrick. "Entanglement Renyi entropies in holographic theories." Phys. Rev. D. 82 (2010): 126010.

Matthew Headrick and Ali Nassar. "Energy functionals for Calabi-Yau metrics". arXiv:0908.2635 [hep-th]: 2009.

Matthew Headrick. "A note on tachyon actions in string theory." Phys. Rev. D. 79 (2009): 046009.

Charles Doran, Matthew Headrick, Christopher P. Herzog, Joshua Kantor, and Toby Wiseman. "Numerical Kaehler-Einstein metric on the third del Pezzo." Commun. Math. Phys. 282 (2008): 357.

Matthew Headrick. "A solution manual for Polchinski's `String Theory'." arXiv.org hep-th. 0812 (2008): <http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.4408>.

Matthew Headrick. "Hedgehog black holes and the Polyakov loop at strong coupling." Phys. Rev. D. 77 (2008): 105017.