Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., McMaster University 2010
  • M.S., McMaster University 2005
  • B.S., McMaster University 2003
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Scholar In Residence in the Department of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUN 12, 2017

    Duke Research Blog

    Cooking Up Frustrated Magnets in Search of Superconductivity

  • FEB 17, 2017

    Fields Magazine, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

    From Frustration to Discovery

  • OCT 8, 2015

    Sara Haravifard: Physicist Learning About Magnetic Moments
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  Awards & Honors

  • Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. ORAU. May 2017
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Energy conversion
  • Energy-Generating Resources
  • Quantum Materials
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • MRI: Acquisition of a Cryogen-Free Physical Properties Measurement System (PPMS DynaCool) awarded by  National Science Foundation 2018 - 2021
  • Unlocking the Mystery of Novel States of Matter in Quantum Materials awarded by Oak Ridge Associated Universities 2017 - 2018
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  Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants

  • NSERC PGS D3 Prestigious Scholarship awarded by National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 2007 - 2010
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship awarded by Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universitie, Canada 2006
  • The Eugene D. Bolotkin Prestigious Scholarship awarded by McMaster University, ON, Canada 2005
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Haravifard, S, Graf, D, Feiguin, AE, Batista, CD, Lang, JC, Silevitch, DM, Srajer, G, Gaulin, BD, Dabkowska, HA, and Rosenbaum, TF. "Crystallization of spin superlattices with pressure and field in the layered magnet SrCu2(BO3)2." Nature Communications 7 (June 20, 2016): 11956-null.  Full Text
    • Haravifard, S, Banerjee, A, van Wezel, J, Silevitch, DM, dos Santos, AM, Lang, JC, Kermarrec, E, Srajer, G, Gaulin, BD, Molaison, JJ, Dabkowska, HA, and Rosenbaum, TF. "Reply to Zayed: Interplay of magnetism and structure in the Shastry-Sutherland model." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112, no. 5 (February 2015): E383-E384.  Full Text
    • Haravifard, S, Banerjee, A, van Wezel, J, Silevitch, DM, dos Santos, AM, Lang, JC, Kermarrec, E, Srajer, G, Gaulin, BD, Molaison, JJ, Dabkowska, HA, and Rosenbaum, TF. "Emergence of long-range order in sheets of magnetic dimers." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111, no. 40 (October 2014): 14372-14377.  Full Text
    • Feng, Y, Wang, J, Jaramillo, R, van Wezel, J, Haravifard, S, Srajer, G, Liu, Y, Xu, Z-A, Littlewood, PB, and Rosenbaum, TF. "Order parameter fluctuations at a buried quantum critical point." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 19 (May 2012): 7224-7229.  Full Text
    • Haravifard, S, Gaulin, BD, Yamani, Z, Dunsiger, SR, and Dabkowska, HA. "Neutron scattering from the static and dynamic lattice of SrCu (BO ) in its Shastry-Sutherland singlet ground state." Physical Review B 85, no. 13 (April 2012).  Full Text
    • Haravifard, S, Banerjee, A, Lang, JC, Srajer, G, Silevitch, DM, Gaulin, BD, Dabkowska, HA, and Rosenbaum, TF. "Continuous and discontinuous quantum phase transitions in a model two-dimensional magnet." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, no. 7 (February 2012): 2286-2289.  Full Text
    • Asano, T, Nishimura, T, Ichimura, S, Inagaki, Y, Kawae, T, Fukui, T, Narumi, Y, Kindo, K, Ito, T, Haravifard, S, and D. Gaulin, B. "Erratum: “Magnetic Ordering and Tunable Structural Phase Transition in the Chromic Compound CuMoO 4 ”." Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 80, no. 11 (November 15, 2011): 118001-118001.  Full Text
    • Asano, T, Nishimura, T, Ichimura, S, Inagaki, Y, Kawae, T, Fukui, T, Narumi, Y, Kindo, K, Ito, T, Haravifard, S, and D. Gaulin, B. "Magnetic Ordering and Tunable Structural Phase Transition in the Chromic Compound CuMoO 4." Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 80, no. 9 (September 15, 2011): 093708-093708.  Full Text
    • Haravifard, S, Fritsch, K, Asano, T, Clancy, JP, Yamani, Z, Ehlers, G, Nishimura, T, Inagaki, Y, Kawae, T, Swainson, I, and Gaulin, BD. "Coexistence of singlet and ordered moments in the ground state of the triclinic quantum magnet CuMoO." Physical Review B 84, no. 9 (September 2011).  Full Text
    • Haravifard, S, Rule, KC, Dabkowska, HA, Gaulin, BD, Yamani, Z, and Buyers, WJL. "Neutron and x-ray scattering studies of the lightly doped spin–Peierls system Cu 1− Cd GeO 3." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 19, no. 43 (October 31, 2007): 436222-436222.  Full Text
    • Dabkowska, HA, Dabkowski, AB, Luke, GM, Dunsiger, SR, Haravifard, S, Cecchinel, M, and Gaulin, BD. "Crystal growth and magnetic behaviour of pure and doped SrCu2(¹¹BO3)2." Journal of Crystal Growth 306, no. 1 (August 1, 2007): 123-128.  Full Text
    • Haravifard, S, Dunsiger, SR, El Shawish, S, Gaulin, BD, Dabkowska, HA, Telling, MT, Perring, TG, and Bonca, J. "In-gap spin excitations and finite triplet lifetimes in the dilute singlet ground state system SrCu(2-x)Mgx(BO3)2." Physical review letters 97, no. 24 (December 14, 2006): 247206-.  Full Text
    • Gaulin, BD, Lee, SH, Haravifard, S, Castellan, JP, Berlinsky, AJ, Dabkowska, HA, Qiu, Y, and Copley, JR. "High-resolution study of spin excitations in the singlet ground state of SrCu2(BO3)2." Physical review letters 93, no. 26 Pt 1 (December 21, 2004): 267202-.  Full Text
    • Shi, Z, Steinhardt, W, Graf, D, Corboz, P, Weickert, F, Harrison, N, Jaime, M, Marjerrison, C, Dabkowska, H, Mila, F, and Haravifard, S. "Emergent Bound States and Impurity Pairs in Chemically Doped Shastry-Sutherland System." .  Link to Item

  • Book Sections

    • Haravifard, S, Yamani, Z, and Gaulin, BD. "Quantum Phase Transitions." In Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences, 43-144. January 1, 2015.  Full Text
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • PHYSICS 264L: Optics and Modern Physics 2018
  • PHYSICS 493: Research Independent Study 2018
  • PHYSICS 495: Thesis Independent Study 2018
  • PHYSICS 151L9D: Introductory Mechanics (Discussion Component) 2017
  • PHYSICS 791: SPECIAL READINGS 2016
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  Advising & Mentoring

  • Post-Doctoral Research Associates:  Zhenzhong Shi, Sachith Dissanayakse

    Graduate Students: William Steinhardt
    
    Undergraduate Students: William Smith (Engineering), Eric Seewald (Chemistry/Physics), Craig Cronin (Chemistry)

    International Student Interns:  Yinying Zhang (University of Science & Technology China), Qiaochu Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)
    
    Highschool Students: Andrew Jiang
    
    
    Group Alumni: 
    
    Postdoctoral Fellows:
    Stephen Kuhn --  Currently at Low Energy Neutron Source @ Indiana University
    
    Undergraduate Students:
    Dhruv Luthra -- Duke Engineering -- Currently at ConsenSys
    Jeong Min Park -- Duke Physics/Chemistry -- Currently at MIT
    James Shackford* -- Duke Engineering
    August Ning* -- Duke Engineering
    Delaney Dalldorf -- Duke Neurobiology/Pre-Med
    Ryan Bichoupan* -- Duke Physics
    Keegan O’Reilly -- Duke Physics
    Tahsin Bari -- Duke Biomedical/Medical Engineering
    Ezra Kalmowitz -- Duke Engineering
    Jea Hyun Kim -- Duke Chemistry
    Olivia Liu (Huang Fellow) -- Duke Biology/Pre-Med
    
    * As part of Duke Research Scholars Program
    
    International Exchange Students:
    Bataung Mohapi (African Leadership Academy, South Africa)
    Bingzheng Han (Wuhan University, China)
    
    
    International student Interns: 
    Zhican Chen  (University of Science & Technology China) -- Currently at Rice University
    Haizhou Liu (Nanjing University, China) -- Currently at Duke University
    Yiliang Lu (Nanjing University, China)
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  Teaching Activities

  • Member of course development and curriculum advisory committee for the newly approved University Program in Materials Science & Engineering.

    Instructor for Module #3: Bulk Single Crystal Growth of the new course on Materials Synthesis and Processing (ME555) for the Materials Science Graduate Program.
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Cold Instrument Workshop. NIST Center for Neutron Research. National Institute for Standards and Technology. 2018  2018
  • Condensed Matter Seminar. Texas A&M University. 2018  2018
  • DCMP/GMAG Topical Invited Session. APS March Meeting. 2018  2018
  • Workshop on Single-Crystal Neutron Diffraction from Quantum Materials Under Pressure . Ames Laboratory. 2018  2018
  • Condensed Matter Seminar . University of Florida. 2017  2017
  • Condensed Matter Seminar. Johns Hopkins University. 2017  2017
  • Condensed Matter Seminar. UCLA. 2017  2017
  • Polar Workshop. Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. 2017  2017
  • Physics Colloquium. University of Vermont. 2016  2016
  • SNS/HIFR User Meeting. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 2016  2016
  • American Conference on Neutron Scattering. Neutron Scattering Society of America. 2015  2015
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  Service to the Profession

  • Member-at-Large. APS GMAG Executive Committee. American Physical Society. March 2018 - March 2021  2018 - 2021
  • Panelist/Proposal Reviewer . Basic Energy Sciences. Department of Energy. 2018  2018
  • Member, Proposal Review Panel. Scattering - Condensed Matter. Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. 2017 - 2019  2017 - 2019
  • Panelist/Proposal Reviewer . Division of Material Research. National Science Foundation. 2017  2017
  • Vice Chair, Executive User Committee & Chair, General Field Facilities. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory . 2017 - 2019  2017 - 2019
  • Executive Member, Spallation Neutron Source & High Flux Isotope Reactor User Group. Oak Ridge National Laboratory . 2016 - 2018  2016 - 2018
  • Member, Scientific Review Committee. Oak Ridge National Laboratory . 2016  2016
  • Member, Proposal Review Committee. National High Magnetic Field Laboratory . 2015  2015
  • Member, Scientific Review Committee. NIST Center for Neutron Research. 2015  2015
  • Reviewer . Physical Review journals, Nature journals, Science journals, Material Research Bulletin, Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Annual Conference Proceedings. 2015  2015
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  Service to Duke

  • Organizer. Laboratory Tours for International Students from Partner Universities. Physics Department . August 2018  2018
  • Department of Physics. Committee Member, Building & Laboratory Space. 2018  2018
  • Department of Physics. Committee Member, Graduate Student Admission. 2018  2018
  • Faculty Host. Science & Society Dinner Dialogues. Duke Science & Society Initiative . 2018  2018
  • Panelist/Presenter . Conversation on Collaborative Learning & Vertical Integration. Executive Committee of the Arts & Sciences Council. 2018  2018
  • Member of Course Development and Curriculum Advisory Committee, New Course Instructor. Materials Synthesis and Processing Course (ME 555). Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science. 2017  2017
  • Department of Physics. Fellowship Committee. 2016 - 2017  2016 - 2017
  • Member of the organizing committee for the 1st joint Duke-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Workshop on Neutron Sciences. Duke University. 2016 - 2016  2016

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