Igor Akindinovich Fomin

Igor Akindinowitsch Fomin ( Russian Игорь Акиндинович Фомин ; born December 26, 1939 ) is a Russian theoretical solid-state physicist who is known for contributions to spin superfluidity .

Fomin received his doctorate in Moscow in 1968 (with a candidate thesis on quantum fluids), was at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics and completed his habilitation (Russian doctorate) in 1980. In 1984, the group around Wiktor-Andrei Stanislawowitsch Borowik-Romanow and Juri Michailowitsch Bunkow spin superfluidity at the Kapiza Institute he was the theoretician of the group who theoretically explained the phenomenon and other phenomena such as phonon-like excitations (Goldstone modes) of the coherent domains of homogeneous spin precession (HPD) and their spectrum and later He-3 in aerogels . He has been at the Kapiza Institute since 1993. In 2000 he became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

In 2008 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize with Vladimir Dmitrijew and Juri Bunkow .

Fonts

• Long-lived induction signal and spatially nonuniform spin precession in 3He-B. In: JETP Letters. Volume 40, 1984, p. 1037.

Web links

• Commendation for the London Prize 2008 (pdf)