Group leader:

Leon Balents (cv)
Professor of Physics and Permanent Member
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: 805-893-6381
Fax: 805-893-3378

Current students:

• Ru Chen
  • Projects:
    • Mott phenomena in nickelate crystals and films
    • Anisotropic triangular lattice antiferromagnets
    • Artificial Mott insulator in titanate heterostructures
• Lucile Savary
  • Projects:
    • Impurity effects in frustrated magnets
    • Quantum spin liquid in quantum spin ice
• Hyejin Ju
  • Projects:
    • Anisotropic triangular lattice antiferromagnets
    • Visons and VBS order in kagome spin liquids
    • QMC calculations of entanglement entropy in RVB states

Current postdocs and visitors:                            

• none at the moment

Former students:                            

• Sungbin Lee
  • Projects:
    • spin-orbit effects and lock-in in A-site spinel magnets (especially MnSc₂S₄)
    • quantum criticality and frustration in columbite
    • Mott phenomena in nickelate crystals and films
    • Quantum phases of Pr pyrochlores
    • Graduated 2012. Currently postdoc at University of Toronto
• Gang Chen
  
  • Projects: electron-nuclear spin dynamics, 3d frustrated quantum antiferromagnets, strong spin-orbit systems  
  • Graduated 2010. Currently postdoc at University of Colorado, Boulder
• Miles Stoudenmire
• Projects: quantum kagome antiferromagnets in a field in the quasi-1d limit, quantum and disorder effects in NiGa₂S₄, METTS
• Graduated 2010. Currently postdoc at UC Irvine
• Doron Bergman
  
  • Projects: frustration in spinels, magnetization plateaus, electron-nuclear spin dynamics
  • Graduated 2007; currently postdoc at Caltech
• Cristina Bena
• Claudia Peca
• Martin Veillette