Andrew Millis

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Andrew J. Millis (* around 1960) is an American physicist.

Millis received his bachelor's degree in physics magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1982 , received a Certificate of Advanced Studies in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1983 , where he was a Fulbright Fellow, and received his PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986 then spent ten years as a theoretical physicist at Bell Laboratories . He was associate professor from 1996 and from 1997 professor at Johns Hopkins University and from 1999 at Rutgers University before becoming professor at Columbia University in 2001 . From 2006 to 2009 he was head of the physics department.

He has been associated with the Simons Foundation as Deputy Physics Director since 2011 and has been co-director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute of the Simons Foundation since 2017.

Theoretically, he deals with the quantum mechanical many-particle problem and strongly correlated electron systems in solids, for example high-temperature superconductors, various novel materials, the CMR effect in manganites, quasi-one-dimensional conductors, systems of heavy fermions, almost magnetic systems, oxide superlattices, quantum phase transitions and matter under non-equilibrium conditions. Recently, he has also investigated theoretical experiments that seem to show that the transition temperature in superconductors can be increased by ultrashort laser pulses.

He is on the Council of the US Summer School on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, which he co-founded. Millis is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1999) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013), as well as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020). In 2017 he received the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics (especially for theoretical work on superconductors) and was a Sommerfeld lecturer at the University of Munich (lecture: Superconductivity -past, present and future). From 2010 to 2014 he was a trustee of the Aspen Center for Physics and he is an external member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. In 1996 he was visiting professor at the University of Bonn, he was visiting scholar at the École Polytechnique and at the CNRS and in 2015 he was visiting professor at the Collège de France .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Patrick A. Lee : Large-orbital-degeneracy expansion for the lattice Anderson model, Physical Review B, Volume 35, 1986, p. 3394
  • with H. Monien, David Pines : Phenomenological model of nuclear relaxation in the normal state of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 42, 1990, p. 167
  • Effect of a nonzero temperature on quantum critical points in itinerant fermion systems, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 48, 1993, p. 7183
  • with PB Littlewood, Boris Shraiman : Double Exchange Alone Does Not Explain the Resistivity of La (1-x) Sr (x) Mn O3, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 74, 1995, p. 5144, Arxiv
  • with BI Shraiman, R. Mueller: Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect and Colossal Magnetoresistance in La (1-x) Sr (x) Mn O3, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 77, 1996, p. 175, Arxiv
  • with B. Shraiman, R. Mueller: Fermi-liquid-to-polaron crossover. II. Double exchange and the physics of colossal magnetoresistance, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 54, 1996, p. 5405, Arxiv , (Part 1, p. 5389)
  • Lattice effects in magnetoresistive manganese perovskites, Nature, Volume 492, 1998, pp. 147-150
  • with J. Ye, B. Shraiman a. a .: Berry phase theory of the anomalous Hall effect: application to colossal magnetoresistance manganites, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 83, 1999, p. 3737, Arxiv
  • Colossal Magnetoresistance manganites: a laboratory for electron-phonon physics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A, Volume 356, 1998, pp. 1473-1480
  • with J. Orenstein: Advances in the physics of high-temperature superconductivity, Science, Volume 288, 2000, pp. 468-474
  • with R. Grigera, RS Perry, AJ Schofield, M. Chiao, SR Julian, GG Lonzarich, SI Ikeda, Y. Maeno, AP Mackenzie: Magnetic field-tuned quantum criticality in the metallic ruthenate Sr3Ru2O7, Science, Volume 294, 2001, Pp. 329-332
  • with A. Mitra, I. Aleiner: Phonon effects in molecular transistors: Quantal and classical treatment, Phys. Rev. B, Volume 69, 2004, pp. 245302, Arxiv
  • with S. Okamoto: Electronic reconstruction at an interface between a Mott insulator and a band insulator, Nature, Volume 428, 2004, p. 630
  • Optical Conductivity and Correlated Electron Physics, in: D. Baeriswyl, L. DeGiorgi, Strong Interactions in Low Dimensions, Springer 2004
  • with P. Werner, A. Comanac, L. De'Medici, M. Troyer: Continuous-time solver for quantum impurity models, Physical Review Letters, Volume 97, 2006, p. 076405, Arxiv
  • with CH Ahn u. a .: Electrostatic modification of novel materials, Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 78, 2006, p. 1185
  • with Emanuel Gull, Alexander Lichtenstein, Alexey Rubtsov, Matthias Troyer, Philipp Werner: Continuous Time Quantum Monte Carlo Methods for quantum impurity models, Rev. Mod. Phys., Volume 83, 2011, pp. 349–404, Arxiv
  • Oxide interfaces: moment of magnetism, Nature Physics, Volume 7, 2011, p. 749
  • with Gull, Parcollet: Superconductivity and the Pseudogap in the two-dimensional Hubbard model, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 110, 2013, p. 216405, Arxiv
  • with Dante M. Kennes, Eli Y. Wilner, David R. Reichman: Transient superconductivity from electronic squeezing of optically pumped phonons, Nature Physics, Volume 13, 2017, pp. 479-483, Arxiv

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honored at the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics 2017
  2. ↑ In a preprint 2018, Aleiner, Chiriaco, Millis, Transient superconductivity without superconductivity (Arxiv), he tries to explain without superconductivity through other non-equilibrium phenomena (negative linear-response conductivity)
personal data
SURNAME Millis, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millis, Andrew J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1960