Vitalij L. Ginzburg Livres

This book presents the Nobel Laureate Vitaly Ginzburg's views on the development in the field of superconductivity. It contains a selection of Ginzburg's key writings, including his amended version of the Nobel lecture in Physics 2003. Also included are an expanded autobiography, which was written for the Nobel Committee, an article entitled "A Scientific Autobiography: An Attempt," a fundamental article co-written with L.D. Landau entitled "To the theory of superconductivity," an expanded review article "Superconductivity and superfluidity (what was done and what was not done)," and some newly written short articles about superconductivity and related subjects. So, in toto, presented here are the personal contributions of Ginzburg, that resulted in the Nobel Prize, in the context of his scientific biography

Every reader interested in understanding the important problems in physics and astrophysics and their historic development over the past 60 years will enjoy this book immensely. The philosophy, history and the individual views of famous scientists of the 20th century known personally to the author, make this book fascinating for non-physicists, too. The book consists of three parts on (I) major problems of physics and astrophysics, (II) the philosophy and history of science and (III) memorial essays on famous physicists. The author is an internationally renowned scientist, who summarizes here his life-long interests, experience, and insights into the work of other eminent 20 th -century physicists. Professor Ginzburg’s fundamental contributions to the theory of superconductivity, encapsulated in the famous and widely-used Ginzburg-Landau equations, have been recognized with the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with A. A. Abrikosov and A. E. Leggett.

Inhaltsverzeichnis 0. Einleitung. 1. Makrophysik. 1.1. Gesteuerte thermonukleare Synthese. 1.2. Supraleitfähigkeit bei hohen Temperaturen. 1.3. Neue Materialien (Erzeugung metallischen Wasserstoffs und anderer Materialien). 1.4. Metallische Exzitonen-Flüssigkeiten in Halbleitern (Elektronen-Loch-Flüssigkeiten). 1.5. Phasenübergänge zweiter Art (kritische Erscheinungen). 1.6. Verhalten von Materialien in extrem hohen Magnetfeldern. 1.7. Raser, Gaser und Hochleistungslaser. 1.8. Untersuchung sehr großer Moleküle, Flüssige Kristalle und Oberflächenerscheinungen. 1.9. Superschwere Elemente (ferne Transurane). 2. Mikrophysik. 2.1. Was versteht man unter Mikrophysik? 2.2. Spektrum der Massen (dritte Spektroskopie). 2.3. Fundamentallänge (quantisierter Raum u. ä.). 2.4. Wechselwirkung von Teilchen bei hohen und extrem hohen Energien. 2.5. Schwache Wechselwirkungen und Verletzung der CP-Invarianz. 2.6. Nichtlineare Erscheinungen im Vakuum in extrem starken elektromagnetischen Feldern. 2.7. Über Mikrophysik gestern, heute und morgen. 3. Astrophysik. 3.1. Experimentelle Prüfung der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. 3.2. Gravitationswellen. 3.3. Das kosmologische Problem und Singularitäten in der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. 3.4. Ist in der Astronomie eine „neue Physik” nötig? Quasare und Galaxienkerne. 3.5. Neutronensterne, Pulsare, Physik der „schwarzen Löcher” und „weißen Löcher”.