Lucas Theory Group
Principal Investigator
Andrew Lucas
Assistant Professor (2019-2024)
Associate Professor (2024-)
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Contact by e-mail: andrew.j.lucas [at] colorado [dot] edu
Office: Duane Physics F629
Postdoctoral Fellows
Yiqiu Han
postdoctoral fellow (2024-), joint with R. Nandkishore
- High-temperature spontaneous symmetry breaking
Oliver Hart
postdoctoral fellow (2021-2025), joint with R. Nandkishore
Umang Mehta
postdoctoral fellow (2023-2025)
on to: postdoctoral fellow, University of Minnesota
Amit Vikram
postdoctoral fellow (2024-), joint with C. Akers and A. M. Rey
- The reconstruction map in JT gravity
Graduate Students
Benjamin Bobell
graduate student (2024-), joint with R. Nandkishore
- TBA
Jack Farrell
graduate student (2021-)
Jinkang Guo
graduate student (2020-)
Xiaoyang Huang
graduate student (2020-2025), KITP Grad Fellow (2024)
on to: postdoctoral fellow, Perimeter Institute
- Electron-phonon hydrodynamics
- Imaging quantum critical dynamics
- Hydrodynamic effective field theory with discrete rotational symmetry
- Spontaneous dipole symmetry breaking in fracton fluids with momentum conservation
- Chern-Simons theory for dipole symmetry *
- Strongly coupled disordered fixed points in holography
- Effective theory for nonequilibrium matter
- Hydrodynamics as EFT of strong-to-weak SSB
Tianhao Liu
graduate student (2024-)
- TBA
Yun Ma
graduate student (2024-)
- Cartoon matrix model for Rydberg atom arrays
Ben McDonough
graduate student (2024-), NDSEG fellow
Akshay Pal
graduate student (2024-)
- TBA
Chao Yin
graduate student (2020-2025)
on to: postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University
- Proof of locality in the Bose-Hubbard model
- Prethermalization in all (weakly perturbed) gapped systems
- CCNR in CFTs *
- Heisenberg-limited metrology with perturbations
- Frobenius light cone and the shift unitary
- Eigenstate localization in a many-body quantum system
- Theory of metastable states in many-body quantum system
- LDPC codes as stable quantum phases
Undergraduate Students
Quintin Babcock
undergraduate student (2024-2025)
on to: master's student, University of Cambridge
- Unusual conservation laws in Hamiltonian mechanics
Alumni
Chi-Fang (Anthony) Chen
undergraduate student (Stanford 2017-2019)
on to: graduate student, California Institute of Technology
Xiao Chen
postdoctoral fellow (2019), joint with R. Nandkishore
on to: tenure-track faculty, Boston College
Caleb Cook
visiting graduate student (Stanford 2017-2022)
Aaron Friedman
postdoctoral fellow (2020-2024), joint with R. Nandkishore
on to: postdoctoral fellow, NIST Boulder
Koushik Ganesan
graduate student (2019-2023)
on to: industry
Andrew Hicks
undergraduate student (2022-2024)
on to: graduate student, Yale University
- Electron hydrodynamics with x-momentum conservation
Yifan Hong
graduate student (2019-2024)
on to: postdoctoral fellow, University of Maryland and NIST
Jason Iaconis
postdoctoral fellow (2020-2021), joint with R. Nandkishore, L. Radzihovsky
on to: industry
Elijah Lew-Smith
REU undergraduate student (Brown 2023)
on to: graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Hertz fellow
- Spin convection without long-range order
Andrew Osborne
graduate student (2020-2024)
on to: postdoctoral fellow, Princeton University
Marvin Qi
graduate student (2020-2024), NDSEG fellow, joint with M. Hermele
on to: postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago
Henry Waldstreicher
undergraduate student (2021-2023)
on to: industry
- Numerical simulations of fracton fluids