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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Course of Theoretical Physics (redirect from Landau and Lifshitz (book))
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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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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after the Soviet physicist Lev Landau. Landau quantization contributes towards magnetic susceptibility of metals, known as Landau diamagnetism. Under strong...
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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 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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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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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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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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becomes infinite. Such a possibility was pointed out by the physicist Lev Landau and his colleagues in 1954. The fact that couplings depend on the momentum...
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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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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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Landau (Palatine German: Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz (German pronunciation: [ˈlandaʊ ɪn deːɐ ˈpfalts]), is an autonomous (kreisfrei) town...
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DLVO theory (redirect from Deryagin-Landau and Verwey-Overbeck theory)
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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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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Grand potential (redirect from Landau potential)
{\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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Diamagnetism (redirect from Landau diamagnetism)
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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The Korets–Landau leaflet, authored by the Soviet physicists Moisey Korets [ru] and Lev Landau in 1938, condemned the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and...
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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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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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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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rabbi Juliet Landau, American actress Kurt Landau, Austrian communist Lev Landau, Soviet physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962 Lola Landau, Jewish German...
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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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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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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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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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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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According to Eugene Wigner, the concept of mixture was put forward by Lev Landau.: 38–41 States can be formulated in terms of observables, rather than...
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