Lucas Theory Group
Principal Investigator
Andrew Lucas
Assistant Professor (2019-)
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Contact by e-mail: andrew.j.lucas [at] colorado [dot] edu
Office: Duane Physics F629
Postdoctoral Fellows
Aaron Friedman
postdoctoral fellow (2020-2024), joint with R. Nandkishore
Yiqiu Han
postdoctoral fellow (2024-), joint with R. Nandkishore
- TBA
Oliver Hart
postdoctoral fellow (2021-), joint with R. Nandkishore
- Hidden long-lived modes in fracton fluids
- Fracton magnetohydrodynamics
- Ergodicity breaking robust to arbitrary perturbations *
- General theory for dissipative state preparation
Umang Mehta
postdoctoral fellow (2023-)
- Effective field theory and ersatz Fermi liquids
Amit Vikram
postdoctoral fellow (2024-), joint with A. M. Rey
- TBA
Jian-Hao (Sergio) Zhang
postdoctoral fellow (2024-)
- TBA
Graduate Students
Jack Farrell
graduate student (2021-)
Jinkang Guo
graduate student (2020-)
- Hydrodynamics with dipole and momentum conservation
- Fracton hydrodynamics without time-reversal symmetry
- General theory for dissipative state preparation
Yifan Hong
graduate student (2019-2024)
on to: postdoctoral fellow, University of Maryland and NIST
- Multiple notions of locality in systems with power-law interactions
- Quantum error correction in a transverse field Ising model
- Long-range-enhanced surface codes
- Quantum teleportation implies SPT *
- Quantum memory at non-zero temperature in a thermodynamically trivial system
Xiaoyang Huang
graduate student (2020-), KITP Grad Fellow (2024)
- 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
Marvin Qi
graduate student (2020-2024), NDSEG fellow, joint with M. Hermele
on to: postdoctoral fellow, University of Chicago
Chao Yin
graduate student (2020-)
- Operator growth in semiclassical spin models
- Proof of locality in the Bose-Hubbard model
- Speed limits on quantum error correction and quantum dynamics with measurements
- Prethermalization in all (weakly perturbed) gapped systems
- CCNR in CFTs *
- Heisenberg-limited metrology with perturbations
- Frobenius light cone and the shift unitary
- Theory of metastability in quantum many-body systems
Undergraduate Students
Andrew Hicks
undergraduate student (2022-)
- Electron hydrodynamics with x-momentum conservation
Elijah Lew-Smith
REU undergraduate student (Brown 2023)
- Spin convection without long-range order
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
graduate student (Stanford 2017-2022), joint with S. Kivelson
on to: teacher, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
Koushik Ganesan
graduate student (2019-2023)
on to: industry
Jason Iaconis
postdoctoral fellow (2020-2021), joint with R. Nandkishore, L. Radzihovsky
on to: industry
Henry Waldstreicher
undergraduate student (2021-2023)
on to: industry
- Numerical simulations of fracton fluids