Vesna F. Mitrovic
Assistant Professor:
Physics
Phone: +1 401 863 2587
vemi@brown.edu
Professor Mitrovic's research is in the area of experimental condensed matter physics. Magnetic resonance techniques are used to study unconventional superconductivity, low-dimensional systems, quantum phase transitions, quantum magnetism.
Biography
Professor Mitrovic joined the Brown Physics Department in 2003. A graduate of Illinois Institute of Technology, she received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2001. She has done postdoctoral work at Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Grenoble, France).
Interests
Her research interests include study of the quantum phenomena arising in strongly correlated electron systems at low temperatures and high magnetic fields using NMR spectroscopy.
Quantum Magnetism: 2D spin-liquids - we are undertaking microscopic studies of the 2D frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet, Cs2CuCl4. This material represents the first experimental realization of a 2D fractional quantum spin liquid.
Superconductivity: What is the role of magnetism in establishing unconventional superconductivity? We are investigating quantum critical phenomena and exotic magnetic field induced superconducting phases in heavy-fermion superconductors.
Degrees
Ph. D. Northwestern University (2001)
Awards
A. P. Sloan Fellowship (2007)
Manning Assistant Professorship, Brown University (2007)
National Science Foundation - CAREER award (2006-2011)
Richard B. Salomon, Faculty Research Award, Brown University (2005)
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Visiting Scientist Program (2005)
Affiliations
American Physical Society
Funded Research
NSF - Materials World Network (07/07 - 06/10)
National Science Foundation - CAREER (07/2006- 06/2011)
National Science Foundation (NSF-IMR) (07/01/2005-11/01/2006)
BNL (Department Of Energy) (PI is Cedomir Petrovic) (02/15/2005- 02/31/2008)
