Lucia Pálová
PhD Student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
136 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 USA
Office: Serin E279
Telephone: (732) 445-5500 ext. 4735
Academics
I am a
PhD candidate
at the
Physics and Astronomy Department
at
Rutgers University
.
My advisor is Professor
Premala Chandra
, and I am also collaborating on several projects with Professors
Karin M. Rabe
and
Piers Coleman
.
My dissertation research is on ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, using first-principles calculations and many-body techniques.
I plan to graduate in Spring 2010 and I am looking for a postdoctoral position starting in Fall 2010.
My
Research Statement
and my
Curriculum Vitae
.
Publications
Universal Behavior and Electric Field-Induced Structural Transition in Rare-Earth Substituted BiFeO3.
Daisuke Kan, Lucia Pálová, Varatharajan Anbusathaiah, Ching Jung Cheng, Shigehiro Fujino, Valanoor Nagarajan,
Karin M. Rabe and Ichiro Takeuchi,
Submitted.
Poster presentation at the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics Workshop, Williamsburg, VA, Feb 2009 (
pdf
).
Magnetostructural Effect in the Multiferroic BiFeO3-BiMnO3 Checkerboard from First Principles
.
Lucia Pálová, Premala Chandra and Karin M. Rabe,
arXiv 0906.3201 (submitted to Physical Review Letters).
Presentation at the 2009 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov 2009.
Poster presentation at the Gotham-Metro Condensed Matter Meeting, NYC, April 2009.
Presentation at the annual American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009.
Poster presentation at the ICMR Summer School on Multiferroics and Beyond, Santa Barbara, CA, July 2008 (
pdf
).
Poster presentation at the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics Workshop, Williamsburg, VA, Feb 2008.
Quantum Critical Paraelectrics and the Casimir Effect in Time
.
Lucia Pálová, Premala Chandra and Piers Coleman,
Phys. Rev. B
79
, 075101 (2009)
(also available as
arXiv 0803.1517
).
Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Correlated Electron Systems, Biddeford, ME, June 2008 (
pdf
).
Seminar at the Techniche Universitat in Vienna, Austria, April 2008.
Seminar at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, April 2008.
Presentation at the annual American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.
Poster presentation at the ICAM Summer School, From BCS to Exotic Superconductivity, Cargese, France, July 2007.
The Casimir Effect from a Condensed Matter Perspective
.
Lucia Pálová, Premala Chandra and Piers Coleman,
American Journal of Physics
77
, 1055 (2009)
(also available as
arXiv 0907.4976
).
Modeling the Dependence of Properties of Ferroelectric Thin Film on Thickness
.
Lucia Pálová, Premala Chandra and Karin M. Rabe,
Phys. Rev. B
76
, 014112 (2007)
(also available as
arXiv 0704.2752
).
Poster presentation at the Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics Workshop, Williamsburg, VA, Feb 2007 (
pdf
).
Master's Thesis
I did my undergraduate studies in physics at the
Department of Solid State Physics
at
Comenius University
in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Anomalous Atomic Dynamics of the Al10V Crystal
(7 MB).
Lucia Pálová,
Diploma thesis, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2004
.
Advisor: Marek Mihalkovič,
Slovak Academy of Sciences
.
Teaching and Service
09/2004--06/2007: Teaching Assistant, Rutgers University.
Fall 2004 and Spring 2005: PHY 110: Astronomy and Cosmology
Fall 2005 and Spring 2006: PHY 202 and 201: Extended General Physics
Fall 2006 and Spring 2007: PHY
202
and
201
: Extended General Physics
Links
Condensed Matter Graduate Students'Journal Club
Condensed Matter Seminar
Colloquium
Many-Body
Last updated 05 November 2009