Lev Pitaevskii
| Lev Pitaevskii | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 18, 1933 Saratov |
| Residence | Italy |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Trento, Israel Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Saratov State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Lev Landau |
| Known for | Gross–Pitaevskii equation, Superfluidity, Course of Theoretical Physics |
Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii (Russian: Лев Петро́вич Пита́евский [ˈlʲɛf pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ pʲɪˈtajɪfskʲɪj]) is a Soviet theoretical physicist, who made contributions to the theory of quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, low-temperature physics, plasma physics, and condensed matter physics. Together with Evgeny Lifshitz and Vladimir Berestetskii, Lev Pitaevskii has also been the co-author of a few volumes of the influential Landau–Lifschitz Course of Theoretical Physics series. His academic status is professor.
Pitaevskii was born on January 18, 1933, in Saratov.
He graduated from Saratov State University in 1955. In 1958 he joined the staff of the Institute of Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1971 he became a professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Collaborating with Vitaly Ginzburg, Pitaevskii developed a theory of superfluidity in the neighborhood of a transition point. He showed that, at sufficiently low temperatures, liquid helium-3 should undergo a transition to the superfluid state.
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