Curriculum vitae

Hi, I am Lucile Savary, a permanent CNRS researcher in condensed matter theory at the ENS Lyon. Before moving here, I was a PhD student of Leon Balents, at UCSB, and a Gordon and Betty Moore postdoctoral fellow at MIT. My research focuses on exotic phenomena in real systems, with an emphasis on frustrated magnetism. It includes quantum spin liquids, and in particular quantum spin ice, order-by-disorder, quantum criticality, the theory of RIXS, spin-orbital systems, thermal Hall transport, the anomalous Hall effect, and non-centrosymmetric superconductors.

To contact me : lucile.savary@ens-lyon.fr

To read more on my research : Research & publications

Permanent research appointment

CNRS, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, present

Education and Training

Betty and Gordon Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014-2017
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, advisor: Leon Balents, title: Exotic Phenomena in Quantum Pyrochlore Materials, 2014
M.A. in Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2012
M.S. in Physics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2008
B.S. in Physics, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 2006
Classes préparatoires PCSI-PC* (Math, Physics, Chemistry), Lycée Henri IV, Paris, 2003-2005

Awards and Honors

CNRS Bronze Medal, 2022
Young Physicist Prize in Statistical Physics, 2019
F. Nevill Mott Prize, 2017
Michelson Postdoctoral Prize, 2016
Betty and Gordon Moore Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2017
UC Santa Barbara Graduate Division Commencement Student Speaker, 2014
Block Award -- Promising Young Scientist, 2014
Élève ENS Lyon, 2005

Publications

Phonon Thermal Hall Conductivity from Scattering with Collective Fluctuations, L. Mangeolle, L. Balents, L. Savary arXiv:2206.06183 (2022)
Phase diagrams and excitations of anisotropic S = 1 quantum magnets on the triangular lattice, U. Seifert, L. Savary arXiv:2203.13490 (2022)
Thermal Conductivity and Theory of Inelastic Scattering of Phonons by Collective Fluctuations, L. Mangeolle, L. Balents, L. Savary arXiv:2202.10366 (2022)
Quantum Coherence: Quantum Spin Ice and Lattice Gauge Theory, L. Savary, L. Balents Springer International Publishing (2021)
Anisotropic exchange and non-collinear antiferromagnets on a noncentrosymmetric fcc structure as in the half-Heuslers, S.-S. Diop, G. Jackeli, L. Savary PRB, 105, 144431 (2022)
Phonon Hall Viscosity in Magnetic Insulators, M. Ye, L. Savary, L. Balents arXiv:2103.04223 (2021)
Renormalization group approach to competing orders at charge neutrality in twisted bilayer graphene, E. Brillaux, D. Carpentier, A. Fedorenko, L. Savary, arXiv:2008.05041 (2020)
40 years of the quantum Hall effect, K. von Klitzing, T. Chakraborty, P. Kim, V. Madhavan, X. Dai, J. McIver, Y. Tokura, L. Savary, D. Smirnova, A. M. Rey, C. Felser, J. Gooth, X. Qi, Nature Reviews Physics 2, 397 (2020)
Dimer description of the SU(4) antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice, A. Keselman, L. Savary, L. Balents, SciPost Phys. 8, 076 (2020)
Singular Angular Magnetoresistance and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Magnetic Nodal Semimetal, T. Suzuki, L. Savary, J.-P. Liu, J. Lynn, L. Balents, J. Checkelsky, Science 365, 377 (2019) -- Science Perspective -- MIT Press Release
Transverse transport, L. Savary, Nat. Phys. 14, 1073 (2018)
Quantization of the thermal Hall conductivity at small Hall angles, M. Ye, G. Halász, L. Savary and L. Balents, PRL 121, 147201 (2018)
Pairing states of spin-3/2 fermions: Symmetry-enforced topological gap functions, J. Venderbos, L. Savary, J. Ruhman, P.A. Lee, L. Fu, PRX 8, 011029 (2018)
Superconductivity in three-dimensional spin-orbit coupled semimetals, L. Savary, J. Ruhman, J. Venderbos, L. Fu, P.A. Lee, PRB 96, 214514 (2017) -- Editor's suggestion
Disorder-Induced Entanglement in Spin Ice Pyrochlores, L. Savary, L. Balents, PRL 118, 087203 (2017)
Quantum Spin Liquids: a Review, L. Savary and L. Balents, Rep. Prog. Phys. 80, 016502 (2017)
Quantum Spin Ice on the Breathing Pyrochlore Lattice, L. Savary, H.-Y. Kee, Y. B. Kim, G. Chen, PRB 94, 075146 (2016)
Quantum loop states in spin-orbital models on the honeycomb lattice, L. Savary, arXiv 1511.01505 (2015) -- accepted by Nature Communications
Probing hidden orders with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, L. Savary and T. Senthil, arXiv 1506.04752 (2015)
A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, L. Savary, E.-G. Moon and L. Balents, PRX 4, 041027 (2014)
Signatures of the Helical Phase in the Critical Fields at Twin Boundaries of Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors, K. Aoyama, L. Savary and M. Sigrist, PRB 89, 174518 (2014)
Spin Liquid Regimes at Nonzero Temperature in Quantum Spin Ice, L. Savary and L. Balents, PRB 87, 205130 (2013)
Definitive Evidence for Order-by-Quantum-Disorder in Er₂Ti₂O₇, L. Savary, K. Ross, B. Gaulin, J. Ruff and L. Balents, PRL 109, 167201 (2012)
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, L. Savary and L. Balents, PRL 108, 037202 (2012)
Quantum Excitations in Quantum Spin Ice, K. Ross, L. Savary, B. Gaulin, L. Balents, PRX 1, 021002 (2011)
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Impurity Effects in Highly Frustrated Diamond Lattice Antiferromagnets, L. Savary, E. Gull, S. Trebst, J. Alicea, D. Bergman, L. Balents, PRB 84, 064438 (2011)

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Major invited talks (international conferences and colloquia)

Invited talk at Ax-les-Thermes, June 2022
Invited talk in Paris, June 2022
Invited talk in Berlin, May 2022
Invited talk in Amalfi, April 2022
Colloquium at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (September 2021)
Invited talk at "Correlations in Novel Quantum Materials", MPI-Stuttgart, Germany (June 2021)
Renormalization group approach to competing orders at charge neutrality in TBG, invited talk at "Correlated synthetic quantum matter: theory meets experiment", Univ. Bremen, Germany, online (Feb. 2021) -- pdf
More And Different: Increasing diversity in quantum materials, Blackboard lunch talk at KITP, online (Nov. 2020)
Magnets Meet Metals, Physics colloquium at Boston College, online (Nov. 2020)
Invited talk at "Summer Seminars Series for Correlated Electrons and Frustrated Magnets", online (July 2020)
Plenary talk at ANZAMP 2020, Tweed Heads, Australia (Feb. 2020)
Invited talk at "Journées de physique statistique 2020", Paris (Jan. 2020)
Magnets Meet Metals, Physics colloquium at UC Santa Barbara (Nov. 2019)
SU(4) antiferromagnetism and dimers, Invited talk at the Worshop on Frustrated Magnetism, IBS PCS, Daejeon, South Korea (Oct. 2019)
Invited talk at "Topological Quantum Matter: From Fantasy to Reality", KITP, Santa Barbara (Oct. 2019)
Invited talk at the "2019 Quantum Materials Symposium", Oxford (Sept. 2019)
Quantum Spin Liquids, set of four lectures at the Cargese Summer School on "Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems", France (Aug. 2019)
Surprising transport phenomena in magnets, Invited talk at StatPhys27, Buenos Aires (July 2019)
Surprising transport phenomena in magnets, Invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference "Topological and Correlated Matter: New Materials and Structures", Hong-Kong (June 2019)
SU(4) dimers, Invited talk at "Low-dimensional emergent phenomena in correlated systems and topological quantum matter", Tbilisi, Georgia (June 2019)
Quantum Spin Liquids, Invited talk at "Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials", Santa Fe, NM, USA (May 2019)
Quantization of the Thermal Hall Conductivity at Small Hall Angles, Invited talk at the National Academies at "Frontiers in Thermal Transport and Energy Conversion", Washington, DC (Apr. 2019)
Quantum physics of rocks, Invited talk at "SISSA meets ENS", Trieste, Italy (Sept. 2018)
Surprising transport phenomena in magnets, Invited talk at "Spin-orbit coupling, correlations, and topology," Bensberg, Germany (Sept. 2018)
Surprising transport phenomena in magnets, Invited talk at MaNEP, Les Diablerets, Switzerland (Aug. 2018)
Surprising transport phenomena in magnets, Invited talk at HFM 2018, UC Davis, California (July 2018)
Quantum Spin Liquids, Tutorial at HFM 2018, UC Davis, California (July 2018)
Singular Angular Magnetoresistance in a Nonsymmorphic Magnet, Invited talk at "Exotic Interactions in Quantum Correlated Materials", Crakow (June 2018)
Superconductivity in Three-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupled Semimetals, Invited talk at "Novel superconductors: materials and properties", Nordita, Stockholm (May 2018)
Superconductivity in Three-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupled Semimetals, Invited talk at the APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, California (March 2018)
Quantum Spin Liquids, Panelist at the "TMS-EPiQS 2nd Alliance Workshop: Topological magnets and topological superconductors", Kyoto, Japan (Jan. 2018)
Singular Angular Magnetoresistance in a Nonsymmorphic Magnet, Invited talk at the "TMS-EPiQS 2nd Alliance Workshop: Topological magnets and topological superconductors", Kyoto, Japan (Jan. 2018)
Superconductivity in Three-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupled Semimetals, Invited talk at the "Conference on topological phases and topological quantum computation", Hong-Kong (Dec. 2017)
Quantum Spin Liquids, Colloquium at ENS Lyon, Lyon (Oct. 2017)
Singular Angular Magnetoresistance in a Nonsymmorphic Magnet, Invited talk at NGSCES, Barcelona, Spain (Sep. 2017)
Quantum Spin Liquids, Discussion leader at "Intertwined Order and Fluctuations in Quantum Materials", KITP, Santa Barbara (Aug. 2017)
Superconductivity in Three-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupled Semimetals, Invited talk at "Order, Fluctuations, and Strong Correlations: New Platforms and Developments," KITP, Santa Barbara (Aug. 2017)
Thermal Conductivity in Complex Magnets, Invited talk at SCES 2017, Prague, Czech Republic (July 2017)
Thermal Conductivity in Complex Magnets, Invited talk at the "Tenth Workshop on Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Oxides," Telluride (Jun. 2017)
Superconductivity in Three-Dimensional Spin-Orbit Coupled Semimetals, Invited talk at "Theory of Correlated Topological Materials," ISSP, Tokyo (Feb. 2017)
Quantum Spin Liquids, Colloquium at Case Western Reserve University (Jan. 2017)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Invited talk at the "Conference on Frustrated Magnetism and Topology," Kloster Nimbschen (Sept. 2016)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Invited talk at the Highly Frustrated Magnetism 2016 Conference, Taipei (Sept. 2016)
Disorder-Induced Entanglement in Spin Ice Pyrochlores, Invited talk at ISSP, Tokyo (Sept. 2016)
Panelist for Important problems and the future of theory of strongly correlated electrons with particular emphasis on the interplay of several degrees of freedom, Krakow (Jun. 2016)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Invited talk at the "New Quantum Phases with Frustration and Entanglement" workshop, Krakow (Jun. 2016)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Invited talk at the MPIPKS Workshop on "Topological Phenomena in Novel Quantum Materials", Dresden (Mar. 2016)
Probing hidden orders with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, Invited Poster at the EPiQS Moore Meeting on "Intertwined Orders in Strongly Correlated Systems", Laguna Beach (Jan. 2016)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Talk at the KITP Workshop "New Phases and Emergent Phenomena in Correlated Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling" (LSMATTER15), Santa Barbara (Sept. 2015) -- pdf, video
Random Quantum Spin Ice, Invited talk at the KITP Conference "Novel States in Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Matter: From Models to Materials", Santa Barbara (Jul. 2015) -- pdf, video
A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, Talk at the Nordita Workshop on Novel Directions in Frustrated and Critical Magnetism, Stockholm (Jul. 2014) -- pdf
Excitations, Order, and Criticality in Quantum Pyrochlores, Invited talk at the 2014 APS March Meeting, Denver (Mar. 2014) -- pdf
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, Invited talk at the EPFL Workshop "Mott Physics beyond the Heisenberg Model", Lausanne, Switzerland (Jun. 2012) -- pdf
Definitive Evidence for Order-by-Quantum-Disorder in Er₂Ti₂O₇, Invited talk at the HFM Meeting 2012, Hamilton, Canada (Jun. 2012) -- pdf
Impurity Effects in Highly Frustrated Diamond Lattice Antiferromagnets, Invited talk at the APS March Meeting 2012, Boston (Feb. 2012) -- pdf
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, Invited talk at the Frustration in Brazil International Conference, IIP Brazil (Dec. 2011) -- pdf

Contributed talks and seminars

Contributed talk at HFM2022, Paris (June 2022)
Condensed matter physics seminar at the University of Geneva (March 2022)
Condensed matter physics zeminar at Columbia University, NY, online (April 2021)
Condensed matter physics seminar at UIUC, Illinois, online (March 2021)
Quantum Cafe at the Flatiron Institute, New York, online (March 2021)
Condensed matter physics seminar at SPEC, France, online (Sep. 2020)
Condensed matter physics seminar at Oxford, UK (Feb. 2020)
Surprising Transport Phenomena in Magnets, Condensed matter physics seminar at ISIS/Diamond, UK (Feb. 2020)
Surprising Transport Phenomena in Magnets, Condensed matter seminar at Caltech, Pasadena (Jan. 2019)
Singular Angular Magnetoresistance in a Nonsymmorphic Magnet, Experimental condensed matter physics seminar at Oxford (Nov. 2017)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Theoretical condensed matter physics seminar at Oxford (Nov. 2017)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Michelson Prize Lecture, Case Western Reserve University (Jan. 2017)
Quantum Spin Ice, Michelson Prize Lecture, Case Western Reserve University (Jan. 2017)
A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, Michelson Prize Lecture, Case Western Reserve University (Jan. 2017)
Talk at "Symmetry, Topology, and Quantum Phases of Matter: From Tensor Networks to Physical Realizations", KITP, Santa Barbara (Dec. 2016)
Disorder-Induced Entanglement in Spin Ice Pyrochlores, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Boston University (May 2016)
Probing hidden orders with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, Takagi and Keimer Abteilungen Seminar, MPI Stuttgart (Apr. 2016)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Takagi Abteilung Seminar, MPI Stuttgart (Apr. 2016)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Utah (Mar. 2016)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Condensed Matter Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena (Feb. 2016)
A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Collège de France, Paris (Nov. 2015)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar, Boston College (Nov. 2015)
Quantum Loop States in Spin-Orbital Models on the Honeycomb and Hyperhoneycomb Lattices, Condensed Matter Theory Kids' Seminar, Harvard University (Nov. 2015) -- pdf
Probing hidden orders with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, ICM 2015, Barcelona (Jul. 2015) -- pdf
Probing hidden orders with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, Condensed Matter Seminar, Johns Hopkins University (May. 2015) -- pdf
Probing hidden orders with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, 2015 APS March Meeting, San Antonio (Mar. 2015) -- pdf
Un type nouveau de criticité quantique dans les pyrochlores d'Iridium (in French), ENS Lyon Theoretical Physics Seminar, Lyon (Jan. 2015) -- pdf
A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, UW CM seminar, UW (Dec. 2014) -- pdf
A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, CMT seminar, MIT (Sept. 2014) -- pdf
A New Type of Quantum Criticality in the Pyrochlore Iridates, Contributed talk at the SCES conference, Grenoble (Jul. 2014)
Search for Exotica in the Real World: Quantum Spin Liquids and Quantum Criticality in Pyrochlore Materials, Condensed Matter Theory Seminar at Harvard, Boston (Dec. 2013) -- pdf
Search for Exotica in the Real World: Quantum Spin Liquids and Quantum Criticality in Pyrochlore Materials, Condensed Matter Seminar at the IQIM, Caltech (Nov. 2013) -- pdf
Spin Liquid Regimes at Nonzero Temperature in Quantum Spin Ice, Contributed talk at the 2013 APS March Meeting, Baltimore (Mar. 2013) -- pdf
Coulombic Quantum Liquids in Spin-1/2 Pyrochlores, Contributed talk at the APS March Meeting 2012, Boston (Feb. 2012) -- pdf

Meeting organizer

PCWH2021 : Dynamics, frustration and correlations in condensed matter, ENS de Lyon, December 2021
Correlated Systems with Multicomponent Local Hilbert Spaces, KITP workshop, September-December 2020
TopoLyon symposia, 2018-2019
French Pyrochlore Magnets Meeting, April 2018

Participation in workshops and schools

Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University Summer School 2021, Baltimore, Maryland
Lecturer at HMFL Winter School 2021, Florida
Organizer of Correlated 2020, KITP
Spinquant 2019, KITP
Key participant at Topoquant 2019, KITP
Lecturer at EPICQUR 2019, Cargèse
Moiré bands 2019, KITP
Intertwined, KITP 2017
ISSP 2017
Topoquant, KITP 2016
LSMatter Follow-on KITP 2016
Boulder Summer School 2016
LSMatter, KITP 2015
Nordita 2014
Boulder Summer School 2013
Fragnets, KITP 2012

Research Whereabouts

ENS Lyon, Sep. 2010-Jul. 2011, Peter Holdsworth
Institut Néel, Dec. 2009-Jun. 2010, Benjamin Canals
ETH Zurich, Apr.-Jul. 2008, Manfred Sigrist
UCSB, Jan.-Aug. 2007, Leon Balents

Funding

ERC
ANR
As part of the ToRe collaboration: Idex Lyon

Other

Referee for Physical Review B, Physical Review X, Physical Review Letters, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Physics, Nature Materials, Nature Communications and Nature.
Referee for several funding agencies of several countries.
March Meeting Chair, since 2016

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