Lev Petrovich Gorkov

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Lev Petrovich Gorkow ( Russian Лев Петрович Горьков , English transliteration Lev Petrovich Gor'kov; born June 14, 1929 in Moscow ; † December 28, 2016 ) was a Russian - American theoretical physicist who studied many-particle theory and in particular the theory of Superconductivity .

Life

Gorkow studied at Lomonosov University and then joined the theory group of Lev Landau , where he worked with Alexei Alexejewitsch Abrikossow , Igor Jechijeljewitsch Dsjaloschinski and Isaak Chalatnikow on problems of theoretical solid-state physics. In 1960 he received the Russian doctorate (habilitation) in Leningrad . He then worked at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Chernogolowka near Moscow, where he became deputy director. In 1991 and 1992 he was visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana / Champaign and was then professor at Florida State University and member of its National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee .

Gorkow was one of the pioneers of the application of quantum field theoretical methods in solid state physics, which he applied in particular in the theory of superconductivity (while at the same time Spartak Belyayev applied the methods to superfluids) and there brought the BCS theory into an elegant and at the same time workable form. He used it to investigate spatially inhomogeneous superconductors, developed a microscopic justification of the Ginsburg-Landau theory , and investigated the influence of impurities and non-equilibrium phenomena in superconductivity. With his colleagues from the Landau Institute Abrikossow and Dzyaloshinsky, he wrote a standard textbook on quantum field theoretical methods in the theory of condensed matter.

Gorkow was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1966 and a full member since 1987 . In 1966 he received the Lenin Prize and in 1988 the Landau Prize . In 2004 he received the Feenberg Medal with Spartak Beljajew and in 1991 the Bardeen Award. In 1997 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005 and an external member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1991 . He has been an honorary doctorate from the University of Illinois since 1992, from the City University of New York since 1989 and received the 1999 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for "Senior US Scientists".

literature

  • AAAbrikosov, LPGorkov, IEDzyaloshinski "Methods of quantum field theory in statistical physics", Prentice Hall 1963, 2nd edition, Pergamon Press 1965, new edition Dover 1977
  • LPGorkov On the energy spectrum of superconductors , Sov.Phys.JETP, Vol. 7 (1958), p. 505 (JETP Vol. 34 (1958), p. 412)
  • LPGorkov Microscopic derivation of the Ginzburg-Landau equations in the theory of superconductivity , Sov.Phys.JETP, Vol. 9 (1959), p. 1364 (JETP Vol. 36 (1959), p. 1918)
  • LPGorkov, AAAbrikosov, IEDzyaloshinski On the application of quantum field theory methods to problems of quantum statistics at finite temperature , Sov.Phys. JETP, Vol. 9 (1959), p. 636 (JETP, Vol. 36 (1959), p. 900)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see JAChramow, physicist: Biographical Dictionary , Kiew, Naukowa Dumka, 1977, in Russian.
  2. ↑ Biographical information on the website of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Gorkov, Lev Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Горьков, Лев Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2016