Professor Frédéric MILA Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Institut de théorie des phénomènes physiques CTMC BSP - Dorigny CH-1015 Lausanne Office : BSP 715 Tel. : +41 21 693 05 11 Fax : +41 21 693 05 23 E-mail: Frederic.Mila@epfl.ch
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Secretary

Anna Maria De Domenico - (Berjano)
Office : BSP 720
Tel. : +41 21 693 05 09
Fax : +41 21 693 05 23
E-mail : annamaria.dedomenico@epfl.ch

Curriculum

Frédéric Mila was born in Toulouse, France, in 1962. He got his degree from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) in 1983, and his PhD from the Université d'Orsay in 1987 for his work on the theory of surface phonons done at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (Saclay). He then joined T. M. Rice's group as a post-doc at the ETH-Zürich (1987-89) to work on high temperature cuprate superconductors, in particular on the explanation of NMR experiments. He continued to work on strongly correlated system as a post-doc in Rutgers University (1989-91), then as a chef de travaux in Neuchâtel. In 1993, he got a permanent position at CNRS (chargé de recherche de première classe) and joined the Group of Theoretical Physics of the Université Paul Sabatier à Toulouse (France). In 2000, he was appointed as a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Université de Lausanne, and since october 2003, he is Professor at the EPFL, leading the chair of Condensed Matter Theory.

Research

He is working on several aspects of the problem of strongly correlated electronic systems, with current emphasis on frustrated magnetism and low-dimensional conductors, in the context of several transition metal oxides as well as organic conductors and carbon nanotubes. The problems addressed are always of experimental relevance, and he is collaborating with experimental chemistry and physics teams all over the world, in particular in France and Japan. The general goal is to find new phases of matter at low temperature coming from strong correlations. Recent successes include the explanation of the structure of the 1/8 magnetization plateau of SrCu₂(BO₃ )₂, a Mott insulator with strong magnetic frustration. Current efforts are devoted to the identification of true spin liquids with topological degeneracy in Mott insulators with magnetic frustration and/or orbital degeneracy.

Collaborators

Professor
MILA Frederic	+41 21 693 05 11	BSP 715
Post-docs (Dr)
MANMANA Salvatore	+41 21 693 05 14	BSP 718
PICON Jean-David	+41 21 693 05 15	BSP 719
WENZEL Sandro	+41 21 693 05 14	BSP 718
PhD Students
COLETTA Tommaso	+41 21 693 05 18	BSP 713.3
MICHAUD Frédéric	+41 21 693 05 18	BSP 713.3
TOTH Tamas	+41 21 693 05 18	BSP 713.3
IRRMA PhD Students
SUDAN Julien	+41 21 693 54 27	BSP 725
Administrative collaborators
DE DOMENICO Anna Maria	+41 21 693 05 09	BSP 720

Teaching

Mécanique quantique II
Physique du solide III
TP IV Entanglement in quantum many body systems

Publications

Professor Mila's preprints on cond-mat