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:

• Gang Chen
  
  • Projects: electron-nuclear spin dynamics, 3d frustrated quantum antiferromagnets 
  • Entered UCSB 2004
• Miles Stoudenmire
• Projects: quantum kagome antiferromagnets in a field in the quasi-1d limit, theory of NiGa₂S₄
• Sungbin Lee
• Projects: spin-orbit effects and lock-in in A-site spinel magnets (especially MnSc₂S₄); frustrated Ising criticality in quasi-1d magnet.

Current postdocs and visitors:                            

• Andreas Schnyder (KITP postdoctoral researcher)

Former students:                            

• Doron Bergman
  
  • Projects: frustration in spinels, magnetization plateaus, electron-nuclear spin dynamics
  • Graduated 2007; currently postdoc in Yale condensed matter theory group
• Cristina Bena
• Claudia Peca
• Martin Veillette