The B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine () is a
research institute
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that conducts basic research in experimental and theoretical physics, mathematics, as well as in the field of applied physics. It was founded in 1960 by Borys Verkin, Oleksandr Galkin, Borys. Eselson and Ihor Dmytrenko. The first director was Borys Verkin.
Main areas of research are
high-temperature superconductivity
High-temperature superconductivity (high-c or HTS) is superconductivity in materials with a critical temperature (the temperature below which the material behaves as a superconductor) above , the boiling point of liquid nitrogen. They are "high- ...
, weak superconductivity, magneto antiferromagnets, physics of low-dimensional systems, point-contact spectroscopy, quantum crystals, nonlinear phenomena in metals, physics of disordered systems, quantum phenomena in plasticity and others. The institute has published about 250 monographs, textbooks, reference books, more than 12,000 articles and reviews in ranking scientific journals, and has trained more than 850 highly qualified experts — PhDs.
History
On May 13, 1960 the presidium of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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issued a decision to establish the Kharkiv Physics and Technical Institute for Low Temperatures on the initiative of several scientists from the
Ukrainian Institute of Physics and Technology
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The institute was created by nine laboratories involved in low temperature physics. Four math departments were also established. In 1987 they were organized into the ILTPE
Mathematical Division.
In 1991 ILTPE was named after its founder — B. Verkin.
Directors
* 1960 — 1988
Borys Verkin
* 1988 — 1991
Anatolii Zvyagin
* 1991 — 2006
Viktor Yeremenko
* 2006 — 2020
Serhiy Hnatchenko
*2021 - 2024
Yurii Naidyuk
*2024 - Acting director Oleksandr Dolbin
Structure
Physics departments
* Department of Magnetism
* Department of Optical and Magnetic Properties of Solids
* Department of Magnetic and Elastic Properties of Solids
* Department of Physics of Real Crystals
* Department of Thermal Properties and Structure of Solids and Nanosystems
* Department of Physics of Quantum Fluids and Crystals
* Department of Spectroscopy of Molecular Systems and Nanostructured Materials
* Department of Superconducting and Mesoscopic Structures
* Department of Molecular Biophysics
* Department of Point-Contact Spectroscopy
* Department of Theoretical Physics
Mathematics departments
* Department of Mathematical Physics
* Department of Differential Equations and Geometry
* Department of Statistical Methods in Mathematical Physics
* Department of Function Theory
Scientific & Technical departments
* Department of Information Systems
* Department of low-temperatures and space materials
Publications
ILTPE publishes two scientific journals included on a list of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications:
Physics and mathematics. Scientific papers and journals
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* ''Low Temperature Physics'', published since January 1975 in Russian, as well as the American Institute of Physics
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in English under the title ''Low Temperature Physics'' 1997. Published monthly. The magazine has Ukraine's highest impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of scientific journals.
* ''Journal of Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry'', published since 2005. Published quarterly in English. ("Journal of Mathematical Physics, Analysis, Geometry" was founded in 1994. Formerly "Matematicheskaya Fizika, Analiz, Geometriya" until July 2005)
References
External links
Official Site
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Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
NASU department of physics and astronomy
Research institutes in Kharkiv
Science and technology in Ukraine
Scientific organizations based in Ukraine
Research institutes in the Soviet Union
Physics research institutes
Research institutes established in 1960
1960 establishments in the Soviet Union