Curriculum vitae

Hi, I am Lucile Savary, a condensed matter theory PhD student of Leon Balents, at UCSB. My research focuses on frustrated magnetism and, in particular, on Quantum Spin Liquids in real materials. Recent work also includes order-by-disorder and quantum criticality.

To contact me : lsavary@physics.ucsb.edu

To read more on my research : Research & publications

Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, advisor: Leon Balents, present
M.A. in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
M.S. in Physics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2008
B.S. in Physics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2006
Classes préparatoires PCSI-PC* (Math, Physics, Chemistry), Lycée Henri IV, Paris, 2003-2005

A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, L. Savary, E.-G. Moon and L. Balents, PRX 4, 041027 (2014)
Signatures of the Helical Phase in the Critical Fields at Twin Boundaries of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors, K. Aoyama, L. Savary and M. Sigrist, PRB 89, 174518 (2014)
Spin Liquid Regimes at Nonzero Temperature in Quantum Spin Ice, L. Savary and L. Balents, PRB 87, 205130 (2013)
Definitive Evidence for Order-by-Quantum-Disorder in Er₂Ti₂O₇, L. Savary, K. Ross, B. Gaulin, J. Ruff and L. Balents, PRL 109, 167201 (2012)
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, L. Savary and L. Balents, PRL 108, 037202 (2012)
Quantum Excitations in Quantum Spin Ice, K. Ross, L. Savary, B. Gaulin, L. Balents, PRX 1, 021002 (2011)
-- also see the Viewpoint by R. Singh Physics 4, 77 (2011)
Impurity Effects in Highly Frustrated Diamond Lattice Antiferromagnets, L. Savary, E. Gull, S. Trebst, J. Alicea, D. Bergman, L. Balents, PRB 84, 064438 (2011)

A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, Seminar at the Nordita Workshop on Novel Directions in Frustrated and Critical Magnetism, Stockholm (Jul. 2014) -- pdf
Excitations, Order, and Criticality in Quantum Pyrochlores, Invited talk at the 2014 APS March Meeting, Denver (Mar. 2014) -- pdf
Search for Exotica in the Real World: Quantum Spin Liquids and Quantum Criticality in Pyrochlore Materials, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar at Harvard, Boston (Dec. 2013) -- pdf
Search for Exotica in the Real World: Quantum Spin Liquids and Quantum Criticality in Pyrochlore Materials, Condensed Matter Seminar at the IQIM, Caltech (Nov. 2013) -- pdf
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, Invited talk at the EPFL Workshop "Mott Physics beyond the Heisenberg Model", Lausanne, Switzerland (Jun. 2012) -- pdf
Definitive Evidence for Order-by-Quantum-Disorder in Er₂Ti₂O₇, Invited talk at the HFM Meeting 2012, Hamilton, Canada (Jun. 2012) -- pdf
Impurity Effects in Highly Frustrated Diamond Lattice Antiferromagnets, Invited talk at the APS March Meeting 2012, Boston (Feb. 2012) -- pdf
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, Invited talk at the Frustration in Brazil International Conference, IIP Brazil (Dec. 2011) -- pdf

A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, Contributed talk at the SCES conference, Grenoble (Jul. 2014)
Spin Liquid Regimes at Nonzero Temperature in Quantum Spin Ice, Contributed talk at the 2013 APS March Meeting, Baltimore (Mar. 2013) -- pdf
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, Contributed talk at the APS March Meeting 2012, Boston (Feb. 2012) -- pdf

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