Vitaly Efimov | |
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| Вита́лий Никола́евич Ефи́мов | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 85–86) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Ioffe Institute |
| Known for | Efimov State |
| Awards | Faddeev Medal (2018) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | USSR Academy of Sciences University of Washington |
| Thesis | (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Miron 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]
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- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Faddeev Medal .