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Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz
Born(1917-01-13)January 13, 1917
DiedOctober 23, 1982(1982-10-23) (aged 65)
Alma materUniversity of Kharkiv, Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute
Known forLifshitz tails, Lifshitz exponent, Self-averaging, spectral shift function, supersolidity
AwardsLenin prize
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsKharkov Institute of Physics and Technology Institute for Physical Problems
Doctoral advisorLev Landau
Doctoral studentsMark Azbel, Alexander Grosberg, Moisei Kaganov, Emanuil Kaner, Alexei Khokhlov, Arnold Kosevich, Valentin Peschansky, Vitaly Slezov, Vladimir Ulyanov

Ilya Mikhailovich Lifshitz (Russian: Илья́ Миха́йлович Ли́фшиц; January 13, 1917 – October 23, 1982) was a leading Soviet theoretical physicist, brother of Evgeny Lifshitz. He is known for his works in solid state physics, electron theory of metals, disordered systems, and the theory of polymers.[1][2]

Together with Arnold M. Kosevich established (1954) connection between the oscillation of magnetic characteristics of metals and the form of an electronic surface of Fermi (Lifshitz–Kosevich formula).

Lifshitz was one of the founders of the theory of disordered systems.[3] He introduced some of the basic notions, such as self-averaging, and discovered what is now called Lifshitz tails and Lifshitz singularity.

In perturbation theory, Lifshitz introduced[4] the notion of spectral shift function, which was later developed by Mark Krein.

References

  1. ^ Odijk, T. (1997). "Ilya M. Lifshitz. An appreciation". Physics Reports. 288: 9. Bibcode:1997PhR...288....9O. doi:10.1016/S0370-1573(97)00019-7.
  2. ^ Grosberg, A. Yu.; Khokhlov, A. R. (1994). Statistical Physics of Macromolecules. Springer. ISBN 978-1-56396-071-0.
  3. ^ Gredeskul, S.A.; Pastur, L.A. (1985). "Works of I. M. Lifshitz on disordered systems". J. Stat. Phys. 38 (1/2): 25–36. Bibcode:1985JSP....38...25G. doi:10.1007/BF01017846.
  4. ^ Lifshitz, I.M. (1952). "On a problem of the theory of perturbations connected with quantum statistics". Uspekhi Mat. Nauk. 7 (1 (47)): 171–180.