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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Landau (Palatine German: Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz (German pronunciation: [ˈlandaʊ ɪn deːɐ ˈpfalts], lit. 'Landau in the Palatinate'), is...
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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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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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DLVO theory (redirect from Deryagin-Landau and Verwey-Overbeck theory)
{\displaystyle T} The DLVO theory is named after Boris Derjaguin and Lev Landau, Evert Verwey and Theodoor Overbeek who developed it between 1941 and...
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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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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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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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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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as a biopic about the life of the Nobel Prize-winning Soviet scientist Lev Landau. However, as production progressed, the concept of the film drastically...
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transition to the superfluid state. Lev Pitaevskii was educated at the Landau school in Moscow. He was a PhD student of Lev Landau and during the first years of...
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Landau is a large lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It was named after physicist Lev Landau...
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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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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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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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