Vitaly Efimov

Vitaly Efimov
Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов
Born1938 (age 85–86)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma materIoffe Institute
Known forEfimov State
AwardsFaddeev Medal (2018)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUSSR Academy of Sciences
University of Washington
Thesis (1966)
Doctoral advisorMiron Ya. Amusia
Lev A. Sliv[1]

Vitaly N. Efimov (Russian: Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов) is a Russian theoretical physicist. He proposed the existence of a novel and exotic state of matter now dubbed the Efimov State as a researcher in A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, USSR in his 1970 paper "Energy levels arising from resonant two-body forces in a three-body system".[2] It was announced in 2006 that the existence of this state of matter had been confirmed.[3]

He is now an affiliate professor of physics at the University of Washington.

In 2018 he has been selected as the winner of the Inaugural Fadeev Medal.[4]

References

  1. ^ "50 People Who Deserve a Nobel Prize". The Best Schools. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
  2. ^ Efimov, V. (1970). "Energy levels arising from resonant two-body forces in a three-body system". Physics Letters B. 33 (8): 563–564. Bibcode:1970PhLB...33..563E. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(70)90349-7.
  3. ^ Kraemer, T.; Mark, M.; Waldburger, P.; Danzl, J. G.; Chin, C.; Engeser, B.; Lange, A. D.; Pilch, K.; Jaakkola, A.; Nägerl, H. -C.; Grimm, R. (2006). "Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of caesium atoms". Nature. 440 (7082): 315–8. arXiv:cond-mat/0512394. Bibcode:2006Natur.440..315K. doi:10.1038/nature04626. PMID 16541068. S2CID 4379828.
  4. ^ Faddeev Medal .


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