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    Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; 22 January 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many...
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  • initiated by Lev Landau and written in collaboration with his student Evgeny Lifshitz starting in the late 1930s. It is said that Landau composed much...
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  • after the Soviet physicist Lev Landau. Landau quantization contributes to the magnetic susceptibility of metals, known as Landau diamagnetism. Under strong...
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  • In physics, Ginzburg–Landau theory, often called Landau–Ginzburg theory, named after Vitaly Ginzburg and Lev Landau, is a mathematical physical theory...
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    In probability theory, the Landau distribution is a probability distribution named after Lev Landau. Because of the distribution's "fat" tail, the moments...
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  • Landau theory (also known as Ginzburg–Landau theory, despite the confusing name) in physics is a theory that Lev Landau introduced in an attempt to formulate...
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  • In physics, the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation (usually abbreviated as LLG equation), named for Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, and T. L. Gilbert, is a...
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  • In physics, Landau damping, named after its discoverer, Soviet physicist Lev Davidovich Landau (1908–68), is the effect of damping (exponential decrease...
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  • and coach Lev Kuleshov (1899–1970), Soviet filmmaker and film theorist Lev Khrshchonovich (1838–1907), chief architect of Kazan Lev Landau (1908–1968)...
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  • becomes infinite. Such a possibility was pointed out by the physicist Lev Landau and his colleagues. The fact that couplings depend on the momentum (or...
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  • The Ginzburg–Landau equation, named after Vitaly Ginzburg and Lev Landau, describes the nonlinear evolution of small disturbances near a finite wavelength...
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    transition between the two energy states, was published separately by Lev Landau, Clarence Zener, Ernst Stueckelberg, and Ettore Majorana, in 1932. If...
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    Physical Problems). The Landau Institute was formed in 1964 to keep the Landau school alive after the tragic car accident of Lev D. Landau. Since its foundation...
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  • {\mathrm {def} }{=}}\ F-\mu N=U-TS-\mu N} named after Russian physicist Lev Landau, which may be a synonym for the grand potential, depending on system stipulations...
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  • performing Coulomb collisions in a plasma. The equation was derived by Lev Landau in 1936 as an alternative to the Boltzmann equation in the case of Coulomb...
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  • The DLVO theory (named after Boris Derjaguin and Lev Landau, Evert Verwey and Theodoor Overbeek) explains the aggregation and kinetic stability of aqueous...
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    describes diamagnetism in a free electron gas is called Landau diamagnetism, named after Lev Landau, and instead considers the weak counteracting field that...
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  • mechanics. The theory of quasiparticles was started by the Soviet physicist Lev Landau in the 1930s. Solids are made of only three kinds of particles: electrons...
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  • American film producer Judah Leo Landau, rabbi Juliet Landau, American actress Kurt Landau, Austrian communist Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, awarded the...
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  • Landau and Lifshitz, after Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, may refer to: Course of Theoretical Physics, a series of physics textbook written by Lev Landau...
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  • Korets [ru] and Lev Landau, wrote the Korets-Landau leaflet which directly condemned Joseph Stalin and the secret police NKVD. Korets and Landau, as well as...
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  • important open problems in the subject of classical gravitation. With Lev Landau, Lifshitz co-authored Course of Theoretical Physics, an ambitious series...
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    many years. The head of the theoretical division of the institute was Lev Landau. The primary direction of research at the institute is low temperature...
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    Roton (category Lev Landau)
    Originally, the roton spectrum was phenomenologically introduced by Lev Landau in 1947. Currently there exist models which try to explain the roton spectrum...
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  • uniform magnetic field, named for Lev Landau ASV Landau, a German football club based in Landau, Rhineland-Palatinate Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics...
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    magnetism. The phenomenon of antiferromagnetism was first introduced by Lev Landau in 1933. Generally, antiferromagnetic order may exist at sufficiently...
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  • Stuart–Landau equation describes the behavior of a nonlinear oscillating system near the Hopf bifurcation, named after John Trevor Stuart and Lev Landau. In...
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  • In physics, the Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence, named for Lev Landau and Eberhard Hopf, was until the mid-1970s,[clarification needed] the accepted theory...
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  • collaborating with Vladimir Fock, Paul Dirac (who was there on a visit), and Lev Landau. In 1932 he published a seminal early paper on Quantum Electrodynamics...
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    electrons and atoms in a solid material. The polaron concept was proposed by Lev Landau in 1933 and Solomon Pekar in 1946 to describe an electron moving in a...
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