List of Publications

Within each category, entries are listed in reverse chronological order. Code and numerical calculations are available in my GitHub repository and are hyperlinked through the code file icon where applicable. YouTube features are hyperlinked through the YouTube symbol. Advised students are indicated by an asterisk *.

Preprints

1. M Hotta, S Murk, DR Terno
   Classical-quantum gravity as quantum gravity in disguise · 2506.15291 · YouTube

Reviews

2. RB Mann, S Murk, DR Terno
   Black holes and their horizons in semiclassical and modified theories of gravity · 2112.06515
   Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 31 (09), 2230015 (2022) · 10.1142/S0218271822300154

Invited Articles

3. S Murk
   Nomen non est omen: Why it is too soon to identify ultra-compact objects as black holes · 2210.03750
   Selected Honorable Mention in the 2023 Gravity Research Foundation Essay Competition
   Int. J. Mod. Phys. D 32 (14), 2342012 (2023) · 10.1142/S0218271823420129

4. PK Dahal, S Murk, DR Terno
   Semiclassical black holes and horizon singularities · 2110.00722
   Invited contribution to the special topic collection “Celebrating Sir Roger Penrose’s Nobel Prize”
   AVS Quantum Sci. 4 (1), 015606 (2022) · 10.1116/5.0073598

Regular Articles

5. RA Hennigar, D Kubizňák, S Murk, I Soranidis*
   Thermodynamics of regular black holes in anti-de Sitter space · 2505.11623
   J. High Energy Phys. 2025 (11), 121 (2025) · 10.1007/JHEP11(2025)121

6. S Murk, DR Terno, R Vadapalli
   Gravity-induced birefringence in spherically symmetric spacetimes · 2408.02729 · Code
   Phys. Rev. D 111 (4), 044001 (2025) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.111.044001

7. A Hahn, S Murk, S Singh, GK Brennen
   Categorical quantum volume operator · 2406.02111
   Phys. Rev. D 110 (8), 086013 (2024) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.086013

8. S Murk, I Soranidis*
   Light rings and causality for nonsingular ultracompact objects sourced by nonlinear electrodynamics · 2406.07957 · Code
   Phys. Rev. D 110 (4), 044064 (2024) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.044064

9. M Hotta, S Murk
   Probability vector representation of the Schrödinger equation and Leggett-Garg-type experiments · 2312.16281 · Code
   Machine learning code selected as “Staff Pick” in the Wolfram Community Forum
   Phys. Rev. A 109 (6), 062224 (2024) · 10.1103/PhysRevA.109.062224

10. S Murk, I Soranidis*
    Kinematic and energy properties of dynamical regular black holes · 2309.06002
    Phys. Rev. D 108 (12), 124007 (2023) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.124007

11. S Murk, I Soranidis*
    Regular black holes and the first law of black hole mechanics · 2304.05421
    Phys. Rev. D 108 (4), 044002 (2023) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.044002

12. RB Mann, S Murk, DR Terno
    Surface gravity and the information loss problem · 2109.13939
    Phys. Rev. D 105 (12), 124032 (2022) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.124032

13. S Murk
    Physical black holes in fourth-order gravity · 2110.14973 · Code
    Phys. Rev. D 105 (4), 044051 (2022) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.044051

14. S Murk, DR Terno
    Spherically symmetric black holes in metric gravity · 2012.11209
    Phys. Rev. D 104 (6), 064048 (2021) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.104.064048

15. S Murk, DR Terno
    Universal properties of the near-horizon geometry · 2010.03784
    Phys. Rev. D 103 (6), 064082 (2021) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.064082

16. V Baccetti, S Murk, DR Terno
    Black hole evaporation and semiclassical thin shell collapse · 1812.07727
    Phys. Rev. D 100 (6), 064054 (2019) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.064054

17. V Baccetti, RB Mann, S Murk, DR Terno
    Energy-momentum tensor and metric near the Schwarzschild sphere · 1811.04495
    Phys. Rev. D 99 (12), 124014 (2019) · 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.124014

Conference Proceedings

18. S Murk
    Constraining modified gravity theories with physical black holes · 2111.00776
    Proc. of the 16^th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, pp. 1351–1358 (2023) · 10.1142/9789811269776_0109

19. S Murk, DR Terno
    Physical black holes in semiclassical gravity · 2110.12761
    Proc. of the 16^th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, pp. 1196–1211 (2023) · 10.1142/9789811269776_0095