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
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
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-)
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
Tianhao Liu
graduate student (2024-)
- TBA
Ben McDonough
graduate student (2024-)
- TBA
Akshay Pal
graduate student (2024-)
- TBA
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
- Eigenstate localization in a many-body quantum system
- Theory of metastability in quantum many-body systems
Undergraduate Students
Quintin Babcock
undergraduate student (2024-)
- TBA
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
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