Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
Recent Publications
B. Kulchytskyy, L. E. Hayward Sierens and R. G. Melko, "Universal divergence of the Rényi entropy of a thinly sliced torus at the Ising fixed point", Physical Review B 100, 045139 (2019), arXiv: 1904.08955
G. Bednik, L. E. Hayward Sierens, M. Guo, R. C. Myers and R. G. Melko, "Probing trihedral corner entanglement for Dirac fermions", Physical Review B 99, 155153 (2019), arXiv: 1810.02831
L. E. Hayward Sierens, P. Bueno, R. R. P. Singh, R. C. Myers and R. G. Melko, "Cubic trihedral corner entanglement for a free scalar", Physical Review B 96, 035117 (2017), arXiv: 1703.03413
W. Witczak-Krempa, L. E. Hayward Sierens and R. G. Melko, "Cornering gapless quantum states via their torus entanglement", Physical Review Letters 118, 077202 (2017), arXiv: 1603.02684
L. Chojnacki, C. Q. Cook, D. Dalidovich, L. E. Hayward Sierens, E. Lantagne-Hurtubise, R. G. Melko and T. J. Vlaar, "Shape dependence of two-cylinder Renyi entropies for free bosons on a lattice", Physical Review B 94, 165136 (2016), arXiv: 1607.05311
J. Helmes, L. E. Hayward Sierens, A. Chandran and R. G. Melko, "Universal corner entanglement of Dirac fermions and gapless bosons from the continuum to the lattice", Physical Review B 94, 125142 (2016), arXiv: 1606.03096
L. Nie, L. E. Hayward Sierens, R. G. Melko, S. Sachdev and S. A. Kivelson, "Fluctuating orders and quenched randomness in the cuprates", Physical Review B 92, 174505 (2015), arXiv: 1505.06206
L. E. Hayward, A. J. Achkar, D. G. Hawthorn, R. G. Melko and S. Sachdev, "Diamagnetism and density wave order in the pseudogap regime of YBa2Cu3O6+x", Physical Review B 90, 094515 (2014), arXiv: 1406.2694
L. E. Hayward, D. G. Hawthorn, R. G. Melko and S. Sachdev, "Angular fluctuations of a multicomponent order describe the pseudogap of YBa2Cu3O6+x", Science 343, 1336 (2014), arXiv: 1309.6639
Seminars
"Understanding how artificial neural networks understand", KITP High School Physics Teachers' Conference - Automating Insight: Pushing the Frontier of Quantum Physics with Machine Learning, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California at Santa Barbara, 2019-02-16, http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/machinet-c19/haywardsierens
"Universal quantities from entanglement entropies", Women in Physics Canada Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 2017-07-27, https://youtu.be/PEseM6Ig_Q0