Publications
JQI / NIST publications (2011 - 2013)
A Raman-induced Feshbach resonance in an effectively single-component Fermi gas
R. A. Williams, M. C. Beeler, L. J. LeBlanc, K. Jimenez-Garcia, I. B. Spielman. Physical Review Letters, 111, 095301 (2013).
[Journal Link][arxiv:1306.1965]
Direct observation of zitterbewegung in a Bose-Einstein condensate
L. J. LeBlanc, M. C. Beeler, K. Jiménez-García, A. R. Perry, S. Sugawa, R. A. Williams, and I. B. Spielman. New Journal of Physics, 15, 073011 (2013).
[Journal Link][arxiv:1303.0914]
The spin Hall effect in a quantum gas
M. C. Beeler, R. A. Williams, K. Jiménez-García, L. J. LeBlanc, A. R. Perry, and I. B. Spielman. Nature 498, 201-204 (2013).
[Journal Link][arxiv:1306.3579]
Controlling Atomic Interactions with Light
Ross A. Williams, Lindsay J. LeBlanc, Karina Jiménez-García, Matthew C. Beeler, Abigail R. Perry, William D. Phillips, and Ian B. Spielman. Optics and Photonics News, 23, 45-45 (2012)
Observation of a superfluid Hall effect
L. J. LeBlanc, K. Jiménez-García, R. A. Williams, M. C. Beeler, A. R. Perry, W. D. Phillips, and I. B. Spielman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 10811 (2012).
[Journal Link][arxiv:1201.5857]
Peierls Substitution in an Engineered Lattice Potential
K. Jiménez-García, L. J. LeBlanc, R. A. Williams, M. C. Beeler, A. R. Perry, and I. B. Spielman. Physical Review Letters 108, 225303 (2012).
[Journal Link][arxiv:1201.6630]
Synthetic Partial Waves in Ultracold Atomic Collisions
R. A. Williams, L. J. LeBlanc, K. Jiménez-García, M. C. Beeler, A. R. Perry, W. D. Phillips, and I. B. Spielman. Science 335, 314 (2012).
[Journal Link][arxiv:1201.4349]
Toronto publications (2005 - 2011)
Exploring many-body physics with ultracold atoms
Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto (2011).
Dynamics of a tunable superfluid junction
L. J. LeBlanc, A.B. Bardon, J. McKeever, M. H. T. Extavour, J. H. Thywissen, F. Piazza, and A. Smerzi.
Physical Review Letters, 106, 025302 (2011).
[Journal Link] [arxiv:1006.3550]
Fermions on atom chips.
M. H. T. Extavour, L. J. LeBlanc, J. McKeever, A. B. Bardon, S. Aubin, S. Myrskog, T. Schumm, and J. H. Thywissen
in Atom Chips, J. Reichel, V. Vuletic, eds., (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2011) pp. 365-394 (Ch. 12).
Repulsive Fermi gas in a harmonic trap: Ferromagnetism and spin textures.
L. J. LeBlanc, J. H. Thywissen, A. Burkov, and A. Paramekanti
Physical Review A 80, 013607 (2009).
[Journal Link] [arxiv:0903.4543]
Species-specific optical lattices.
L. J. LeBlanc and J. H. Thywissen
Physical Review A 75, 053612 (2007).
[Journal Link] [arxiv:cond-mat/0702034]
Dual-species quantum degeneracy of 40K and 87Rb on an atom chip.
M. H. T. Extavour, L. J. LeBlanc, T. Schumm, B. Cieslak, S. Myrskog, A. Stummer, S. Aubin, and J. H. Thywissen.
Atomic Physics 20, 241-249 (2006).
Rapid sympathetic cooling to Fermi degeneracy on a chip.
S. Aubin, S. Myrskog, M.H.T. Extavour, L. J. LeBlanc, D. McKay, A. Stummer, J. H. Thywissen.
Nature Physics 2, 384-387 (2006).
[Journal Link] [arxiv:cond-mat/0609259]
Trapping Fermionic 40K and Bosonic 87Rb on a Chip.
S. Aubin, M.H.T. Extavour, S. Myrskog, L.J. LeBlanc, J. Esteve, S. Singh, P. Scrutton, D. McKay, R. McKenzie, I. Leroux, A. Stummer, and J.H. Thywissen.
J. Low Temp. Phys. 140, 377-396 (2005).
[Journal Link] [arxiv:cond-mat/0502196]
Non-academic
Physics is beauty
Lindsay LeBlanc, Globe and Mail (Facts and Arguments) 11 June 2009.