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(V.L. Ginzburg) Professor, Academician, Doctor of Phys.&Math.Sciences, Head of Group Quantum electrodynamics and elementary particle theory, radiation theory and optics of condense matter, theory of condense matter, plasma physics, astrophysics.

The main results: Condensed matter: theory of segnetoelectrisity, phase transitions, theory of superconductivity (Ginzburg-Landau theory).

Plasma physics: propagation of waves in plasma, theory of synchrotron emission, theory of transition radiation.

Astrophysics: origin of cosmic rays, theory of pulsar radio emission, black hole electrodynamics.

V.L.Ginzburg has won 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics

Sector of Laser Plasma Theory - General information

LPI  Division of Quantum Radiophysics   Department of Laser Thermonuclear Fusion

Sector of Laser Plasma Theory

Rozanov Vladislav Borisovich Major scientific scholar
Vergunova Galina Alexeevna Senior scientific scholar
Gus'kov Sergey Yu. Major scientific scholar
Demchenko Nikolay Nikolaevich Leading researcher
Doskoch Igor Ya. Younger scientific employee
Stepanov Roman Vyacheslavovich Younger scientific employee
Shumskiy Sergey Alexandrovich Senior scientific scholar

The Sector was formed in 1979.

The main directions of research are:
  • interaction of high-power laser radiation with matter
  • the physics of high-temperature nonequilibrium laser plasma
  • the physics of compression and combustion of inertial fusion targets
  • hydrodynamic instabilities
A number of powerful mathematical programs have been developed at the Sector, including:
  • RAPID program for calculating the interaction of laser radiation with matter; the program is based on the joint solution of Maxwell equations and equations of one-dimensional gas dynamics
  • RAPID-SP program for calculating the interaction of a short laser pulse with plasma
  • ATLANT-HE program for calculating the two-dimensional gas dynamics of plasma with account for the generation and transfer of above-thermal electrons
  • RADIANT program for calculating the transfer of intrinsic emission in high-temperature laser plasma
  • DESNA program for calculating the optical properties of laser plasma, and others
A number of the known concepts of laser fusion targets with high gains have been proposed in the Sector, among them:
  • the concept of fast direct ignition
  • the laser greenhouse target for a small number of irradiating laser beams
  • the direct drive X-ray target

The Sector is actively involved in RFBR, ISTC (29, 30, 31, 1481, 2151, 2155, 2165) and INTAS (2001-0572) etc. projects; cooperates with leading Russian and foreign research centres, such as RFNC-VNIITF (Snezhinsk, Russia), RFNC-VNIIEF (Sarov, Russia), TRINITI (Troitsk, Russia), ENIN (Moscow, Russia), IMM RAS (Moscow, Russia), IAM RAS (Moscow, Russia), ENEA-Frascati (Italy), ILE (Japan), AWE-Aldermoston (Great Britain), DENIM (Spain), Prague Polytechnical University and Institute of Physics (Czech Republic), Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microsynthesis (Poland).

The staff of the Sector take active part in the organization and work of All-Russian and foreign conferences, in the work of the Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Plasma Physics. 

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