Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin

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Anatoly Iwanowitsch Larkin ( Russian Анатолий Иванович Ларкин , English transcription Anatoly Larkin; born October 14, 1932 in Kolomna , Soviet Union ; † August 4, 2005 in Aspen (Colorado) ) was a Russian-American theoretical physicist who mainly worked with Solid State Physics.

Life

Larkin studied at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology , received his doctorate in plasma physics from Arkadi Migdal and habilitated in 1965 on the theory of superconductors (Russian doctorate). From 1957 to 1966 he was at the Kurchatov Institute and then until 1995 department head at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics . 1970 to 1991 he was also a professor at Lomonosov University . In the 1990s he went to the USA and was professor at the University of Minnesota from 1995 ( William I. and Bianca M. Fine Professor ). He died unexpectedly while attending a workshop in Aspen.

He had US citizenship alongside Russian. Larkin is buried in Chernogolovka . He was married and had two sons.

Paul Wiegmann is one of his doctoral students .

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He published over 230 scientific papers in solid state physics, nuclear and elementary particle physics, plasma physics. The focus of his work was on theoretical solid state physics, in particular the theory of superconductivity. He predicted the phenomenon of para-conductivity in superconductors and developed the theory of collective fixation of eddies in superconductors and the theory of weak localization and negative magnetoresistance in disordered metals. Later he dealt with fluctuations in superconductors and quantum chaos.

Early (1961) he applied methods of superconductivity in elementary particle physics (spontaneous symmetry breaking).

Memberships and honors

In 2002 he received the Lars Onsager Prize . In 2004 he received the John Bardeen Prize with David Nelson and Waleri Winokur for contributions to the theory of vortex matter. In 1993 he received the Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize and the Humboldt Medal . In 1990 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize for Low Temperature Physics and in 1994 the Award of Excellence from the World Congress of Superconductivity.

He was a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991 and a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences since 1979.

Fonts

  • with A. Varlamov: Theory of fluctuations in superconductors. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LG Aslamazov, AI Larkin: Effect of Fluctuations on the Properties of a Superconductor Above the Critical Temperature . In: Sov. Phys. Solid state . tape 10 , no. 4 , 1968, p. 875-880 .
  2. ↑ Shinobu Hikami, Anatoly I. Larkin, Yosuke Nagaoka: Spin-Orbit Interaction and Magnetoresistance in the Two Dimensional Random System . In: Progress of Theoretical Physics . tape 63 , no. 2 , 1980, p. 707-710 , doi : 10.1143 / PTP.63.707 .
  3. ^ VG Vaks, AI Larkin: On the application of the methods of superconductivity theory to the problem of the masses of elementary particles . In: Sov. Phys. JETP . tape 13 , 1961, pp. 192-193 .
  4. ^ John Bardeen Prize
personal data
SURNAME Larkin, Anatoly Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ларкин, Анатолий Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolomna , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH August 4, 2005
Place of death Aspen (Colorado)