Vitaly Nikolayevich Efimov

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Vitaly Efimov

Vitaly Nikolajewitsch Efimow ( Russian Виталий Николаевич Ефимов , English transcription Vitaly Efimov; * 1938 in Leningrad ) is a Russian theoretical physicist who predicted in 1970 that a quantum mechanical system of three bosons could form an infinite number of bound states, even if two of them together can not.

His Efimov states were met with disbelief when they were introduced, but were confirmed experimentally for the first time in 2005 by a working group led by Rudolf Grimm and Hanns-Christoph Nägerl at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck , and the corresponding work was published in 2006 in the science journal Nature .

Jefimow received his PhD in theoretical physics at the Joffe Institute in 1966 with Miron Amusia and Lev Sliv. He went to the USA in 1989 and is currently teaching at the University of Washington in Seattle . Since 2000 he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

In 2018 he and Rudolf Grimm were honored with the Faddeev Medal, which was awarded for the first time .

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  1. ↑ Short biography, blog 50 People who deserve Nobel Prize ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thebestschools.org
  2. ^ Energy levels arising from resonant two-body forces in a three-body system . In: Physics Letters B . Volume 33, 1970, p. 563
  3. ↑ Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms. In: Nature , Volume 440, 2006, pp. 315-318.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: Innsbruck experimental physicist Rudolf Grimm awarded the Faddeev Medal . Article dated July 10, 2018, accessed July 11, 2018.
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SURNAME Efimov, Vitaly Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ефимов, Виталий Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad