Viktor Nikolaevich Popov

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Viktor Nikolaevich Popov ( Russian Ви́ктор Никола́евич Попо́в , English transcription Victor Nikolaevich Popov; * October 27, 1937 , † April 16, 1994 ) was a Russian theoretical physicist.

Popov studied theoretical physics at the Leningrad State University (LGU) and from 1959 worked in J. Novoshilov's group at the Leningrad branch of the Steklov Institute (LOMI). After the group broke up, he went back to Leningrad University, where he completed his habilitation and became an assistant professor of mathematical physics. This is where the collaboration with his colleague Ludwig Faddejew began , initially through applications of the diagram techniques of quantum field theory in solid-state physics. In 1965 he went back to LOMI, where he stayed for the rest of his career and formed the group for mathematical physics with Faddejew.

He is known for his work on the quantization of gauge field theories , particularly the introduction of Faddejew-Popow ghosts with Ludwig Faddejew. Richard Feynman recognized the necessity of introducing such unphysical degrees of freedom in the quantization of gauge field theories in the early 1960s. Like Feynman, Faddejew and Popow initially examined Yang-Mills fields only as models of the quantization of gravity. Behind the Faddejew-Popow construction is the differential geometric interpretation of calibration fields with the help of fiber bundles , which Faddejew knew from the textbooks of André Lichnerowicz .

literature

  • Popov, N. Konopleva: Gauge Fields , Gordon and Breach Publishing Group 1982 (Russian original 1972)
  • Popov Functional integrals and collective excitations , Cambridge University Press 1991
  • Popov Functional Integrals in Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Physics , Reidel 1983, Springer 2001
  • LD Faddeev: How i came to work with Victor Popov , Journal of Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 88, 1998, p. 111, and NP Konopleva To the memory of VNPopov , ibid. P. 114

References

  1. ↑ [1]
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  3. ↑ He was not his student, compare the memoirs of Faddejew Journal of Math. Sciences Vol. 88, 1998, p. 111
  4. ↑ Faddeev, Popov "Feynman diagrams for the Yang-Mills field", Physics Letters B, Vol. 25, 1967, p 29
personal data
SURNAME Popov, Viktor Nikolaevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Попов, Виктор Николаевич (Russian spelling); Popov, Victor Nikolaevich (English transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1937
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1994